'The big truck is still on ... A Tax Identification Number is one of the essential documents of a Nigerian citizen. But how do you get TIN number in Nigeria? Whether you want to obtain a TIN for yourself or your company, weve prepared a step by step guide, explaining all the details of this process. If you want to find out more, continue reading below! TIN number in Nigeria TIN is a one-of-a-kind number that serves as an identification tool. It records and contains all the tax payment information of a particular person or business. Every citizen of Nigeria, as well as any company, is required to have a TIN. In order to be eligible for a tax identification number, you have to be receiving revenue within the territory of Nigeria. Interesting fact: Another reason to get a TIN is that this way you are sure to avoid double taxation in another country. When registered, your taxpayer information is globally available. There are several places where you can apply for your TIN. These include the Registrar Generals Department, the Domestic Tax Revenue Office or a Custom Division Office. If you would like to know what information you have to provide during the registration process, heres a short checklist. Make sure you dont miss anything: Full legal name; Certified copy of your birth certificate; Valid Identification document; Proof of Citizenship; Current residential address; Current occupation or position; Primary e-mail address; Mobile phone number; Passport-sized photo if you are currently unemployed. Now lets talk about the process of obtaining a valid TIN number in Nigeria. The registration process is pretty straightforward, and whats even better is that it doesnt have any fees attached to it. Some people hire third-party lawyers to complete this task, but its really unnecessary. All you need to do is to follow these simple steps: Go to your local (or preferred) FIRS office; Ask for all the necessary forms used in the application process; Fill in all the blanks and checkboxes that are provided in the form; Return the filled-in form to the tax office and show them a valid identification document (this may be an international passport, a bill or even a drivers license); Submit your biometrical data, which includes your passport and fingerprints. Side note: The tax identification number is valid for ten years. After all of the information above has been checked by the tax office employees, you will be issued your TIN. Usually, you can receive it on the same day youve applied. However, it was reported that a lot of FIRS offices have a problem with backlogs. Due to this factor, the registration procedure can last for a week, sometimes even longer. Once youve read this information, you may find yourself wanting to shorten the process of getting a TIN. Thus, a question arises How to obtain a TIN number online? Well, the sad answer is you cant. At the moment, the FIRS doesnt allow people to complete this process on the web. How to obtain TIN number for your company READ ALSO: How to register a money lending business in Nigeria? If youre reading this article to find out how to register a TIN for your business, youre going to want to learn even more details. Some companies try to avoid this process, as they want to keep all the revenues to themselves. We highly advise you not to do that. First of all, its illegal to lead a business without paying taxes to the country. If you get caught committing this offense, it will deal a severe blow to your company, and can even lead to bankruptcy. The second reason is that you have to wield a valid TIN in order to conduct business operations on an international level. Now lets talk about what you need to begin the registration process. Go to your local FIRS office (you can find the whole list on their website) with the following documents: Memorandum & Articles of Association; CAC2 and CAC7; Company Seal; Utility bill; Application letter on company-branded paper; Correctly-filled Tax Identification Number application form. Tip: You need to have both the originals of these documents and two copies to be left at the FIRS office. Same as with obtaining a personal TIN, the process is free and should be completed within a week. After youve registered for TIN, you now have the obligation to send VAT and tax returns every month. TIN number verification in Nigeria Now that weve finished the guide to getting a TIN lets talk about the verification process. First, you have to visit the FIRS official website. Next, you have three options for verifying your TIN. You can select the Tax Identification Number in the search window. Now input your personal number, fill in the captcha box and press the search button. You can choose the CAC Registration Number in the search box. Enter both your CAC figure and captcha. You can choose the Phone Number option and type in your number and captcha. Now you know how to obtain and verify your TIN in Nigeria. Be sure to share this information with your friends and colleagues. Remember that tax payment is everyones duty. If you are performing business activities in Nigeria, you are obligated to get a TIN. READ ALSO: Entrepreneurship development in Nigeria: problems and prospect Source: Legit.ng Are you a traveler? Have you even been to European countries? These are fast becoming a popular destination for traveling. If you want to have a remarkable trip, you need to be aware of the money used in a particular country. Today, we will be talking about Germany and its currency. Germany is known for its direct involvement in the process of creation and implementation of the new mutual European currency. Our overview will help you to learn a little history of the countrys money, some interesting facts and how to navigate money matters in this country. Currency used in Germany From 1948 to 1999, the Germans official currency was called the German Mark. It is also known as Deutsche Mark. In 1999 it was replaced with the European Unions mutual currency - Euro. At the beginning it was only used for cashless transfers by banks and stock markets. Deutsche Mark banknotes and coins circulated in Germany till 2002 when Euro began to be used for cash payments officially. From then on, Deutsche Marks were freely exchanged for Euros. Deutsche Marks can still be exchanged for Euros today. Euro Era READ ALSO: Highest currency in the world 2017 - Top 10 Germany was the first among 19 European countries to convert to Euro. The country has been using only Euros since 2002. Germans themselves pronounce Euro as Oy-row because of their native language peculiarities. The symbol of Euro is and which has now become the German currency symbol as well. Heres an interesting fact: this symbol was created by a German named Arthur Eisenmenger! So, in a way, Germany was the originator of the Euro! These are the available Euro banknotes today: 5, 10, 20, 50, 200 and 500. Actually, the 1 and 2 are not actual banknotes but coins! Each Euro is divided into eurocents which are coins. Germany uses the following coins: 1c, 2c, 5c, 10c, 20c and 50c. German currency symbol As for the coins design, on one side, there is a unified picture of the European map. This side also reveals the value of the count. Each country has its own unique eurocent coins design on the other side. Euro banknote designs are unified for all countries and portray different famous architectural objects in Europe. There are different pictures on different banknotes. However, you will notice one unified image which every Euro banknote has regardless of its denomination. It is the stars circle in the upper left corner of the banknote, a symbol of the European Union whose member is Germany, of course. Facts about German money In Germany, cash is king is more than just a saying. It is the way of life of the Germans. ATMs are the fastest and easiest ways to get cash. These ATMs can be found in various spots across the country such as airports, train and bus stations, in large shopping centers, near banks and on the streets. They are available for users 24/7. ATMs in Germany are called Geldautomat, which can be literally translated to money machine. To get money from the ATM, you need a bank card that can be used abroad. A traveler can also get German cash from the currency exchange offices. Just be sure you can exchange your countrys currency in Germany. It might be preferable to make such an exchange in your native country in advance so as not to find yourself stranded. Travelers checks can be used to get cash as well. You can use credit or debit cards to make payments via bank transfers. Credit cards are widely accepted but check if yours holds Mastercard, Visa, Eurocard logo. Otherwise, they cannot be used in Germany. A lot of banks have branches in Germany, so you might want to find out which banks in your country have offices in Germany. READ ALSO: How to send money to a domiciliary account? Source: Legit.ng - The Inspector General of Police has ordered the dismantling of roadblocks nationwide - He said the order was necessary to enable Nigerians to do their business with ease - He also added that police officers on vehicular patrol must always wear their uniforms with a bold name tag and service number The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has announced the immediate dismantling of all roadblocks in Nigeria, especially the ones on Lagos-Ibadan, Shagamu-Benin and Benin-Onitsha highways. Other roads listed are Okene-Abuja, Kaduna-Kano, Katsina Kano, Otukpo Enugu, Enugu Port Harcourt expressways. In a statement on Monday night by the police spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, the IG said that this will enable ease of doing business in Nigeria, safeguard, and guarantee free passage of goods and travellers throughout the country. READ ALSO: President Buhari returns from London as promised by Femi Adesina Moshood said: To this end, no police department, section, squad or unit should mount road block without express permission of the Inspector-General of Police. Furthermore, police personnel involved in vehicular patrol on highways and major roads across the country must wear their uniforms with a bold name tag and service number. The Special X-Squad teams of the Force have been deployed throughout the country, they are under strict instructions to arrest, investigate and discipline any police personnel violating this directive. For avoidance of doubt, the Taxes and Levies act, Laws of Federation of Nigeria 2004 section 2 (2) disallowed any person, including a Tax Authority from mounting a Road block in any part of the Federation for the purposes of collecting any Tax or Levy." PAY ATTENTION: Read the news on Nigerias #1 news app Meanwhile, officers of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested several kidnappers who specialize in carrying out operations along the Abuja-Kaduna expressway. The development was made public by the head of the police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Abba Kyari. Legit.ng notes that Kyari disclosed via his Facebook page, that the operations that led to the successful arrests of the suspects were carried out by the IRT and police special forces, who were deployed by the inspector general of police, Ibrahim Idris. Various weapons including many rifles and other gun models, were also confiscated by the police when the suspects were arrested. Watch this Legit.ng TV video asking if the police is truly your friend: Source: Legit.ng - Senate president, Dr Bukola Saraki, is still facing criticisms for his stance on the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist organisation - One of such organisations not happy with Saraki is the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) - The group is the umbrella body for all Fulani herdsmen operating in Nigeria Fulani herdsmen under the aegis of MACBAN, has urged the federal government to commence probe into the activities of the Senate president, Bukola Saraki, to ascertain if he was among those sponsoring Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB. The national coordinator of MACBAN, Garus Gololo, who made the call in Makurdi, the Benue state capital, while speaking with newsmen, noted that the activities of IPOB in recent times demonstrated that it was more of a danger to the unity of Nigeria than the clashes between Fulani herdsmen and farmers. According to him, the statement made by Saraki, faulting the proscription of the group by the federal government, was inciting and a clear signal that Saraki might be supporting the agitation by IPOB to divide Nigeria. Saraki had last week faulted the proscription of IPOB as a terrorist organization. Photo credit: Senate President's media team READ ALSO: FG to notify banks, embassies, foreign missions about proscription of IPOB He also said Saraki was no longer fit to lead the Senate by making such a statement. He further argued that Saraki s presence in the National Assembly was a threat to the unity and oneness of Nigeria. His words: I think it is a high-time the federal government commenced full scale investigation into Senator Bukola Sarakis activities in the Senate. I doubt if that man has the interest of this country, Nigeria, at heart. For the number three citizen to be saying different things from the government, which he is fully part and parcel of, shows that Saraki hates Nigeria, Buhari and Fulani herdsmen and as such, his leadership is in doubt and he should step aside. We cant continue to have someone in power that would declare support for a group agitating to break up Nigeria. We are for one Nigeria and in unity we stand. The ability of the government to declare IPOB as a terrorist group has saved the country from a premeditated war that could have led to the collapse of the unity and peaceful coexistence of Nigeria. He described the proscription of IPOB as a terrorist group as a right step in a right direction. Saraki had last week condemned the ban on the activities of IPOB by the southeast governors and its classification as a terrorist group by the Nigerian military. He stated that the army's decision to declare IPOB a terrorist group did not follow due process. He, however, commended the military effort in restoring peace to Abia state and all other southeast cities after the crises with the IPOB. READ ALSO: Nigerian Senate highlights its priorities ahead of resumption Watch this Legit.ng TV exclusive video of Nnamdi Kanu's lawyer reacting to the Nigerian Army's invasion of his client's residence in Abia state: Source: Legit.ng - Members of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), the group of pro-democracy activists, said the recent raid on southeast is an indication that the military is gradually taking over - NADECO said the developments is a clear sign that the democracy is once again under threat - The group, however, said it is time to rise and defend the nation's democracy Members of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), the group of pro-democracy activists has said that Nigeria is back to dictatorship. The Guardian reports that Amos Akingba, Chiefs Ayo Opadokun and Ayo Adebanjo, the NADECO chieftains made this known through a statement in Lagos. Legit.ng gathered that the group made a damning verdict on the country's democracy with concern that Nigeria is back to dictatorship. READ ALSO: IG of police orders dismantling of all road blocks nationwide Statement read: ''It is time once again to rise and defend democracy in our dear country. We are very troubled by recent national developments and are forced to issue this warning to all our compatriots that democracy is once again under threat in our nation. ''In Abia state, the soldiers invaded communities, tortured civilian population, over-awed the constitutionally elected governor and civil institutions of the state, and declared the IPOB a terrorist organisation, in defiance of the judgment of the Federal High Court. ''All of these actions are unconstitutional and represent an illegal takeover of the functions of the National Assembly, the Abia state House of Assembly and the legal authorities. ''The Army High Command has announced further that the Operation Python Dance will be a regular event and that another similar activity named Operation Crocodile Smile will be carried out in the south-south and south-west. PAY ATTENTION: Read the news on Nigerias #1 news app ''The actions of the military, we restate, are inconsistent with the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and may be the beginning, if not checked, of the unwitting or witting subversion of democracy in Nigeria''. Moreover, the group also seeks a return to the 1963 constitution which it said described the essence of true federalism with emphasis on the coming together of independent federating units to form a federation. Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that President Muhammadu Buhari finally returned to the country from London where he had travelled to after taking part in the United Nations General Assembly for 2017. Watch this video and hear what some Nigerians think about Buhari: Source: Legit.ng - Prof Ilochi Okafor, a former vice chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University says the proscription of IPOB is illegal - Okafor says he is arguing from the point of the law as he stresses that the UN charter recognises such agitations - However, the justice commissioner in Anambra, Anali Chude, thinks IPOB is an enemy for instructing residents to boycott the forthcoming election in the state A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Prof Ilochi Okafor, has described the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) by the federal government as illegal. Okafor said IPOB has the right to agitate and that such an activity is recognised by the law. READ ALSO: Arrest Nnamdi Kanu within 21 days or face national protest - Abia lawmakers tell FG The professor and former vice chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, spoke in the Anambra state capital during the 2017/2018 legal year of its judiciary. Okafor maintained the role of the military during the crisis was an aberration because the police never showed it lacked the powers to quell the agitation. The Nigerian Tribune reports that Okafor wondered why the army would subject the defenceless and unarmed youths to physical torture and denigrating their dignity when their agitation is recognised as fundamental human rights in international law and United Nations charter. Despite the verbal violence and grandiose rhetoric of Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB is not a terrorist Origination. No person has been killed by IPOB. Its rallies have been heavily crowded but it has not been shown that any person carried or discharged weapons during the rallies, he added. However, at the same event, the Attorney-General of the state, Anali Chude, described IPOB as enemies. Enemies of the state wanted to take the advantage to plunge Anambra state into chaos by directing that elections will not hold in Anambra state. It is the stand of the state government that elections must hold in Anambra state. PAY ATTENTION: Read the news on Nigerias #1 new app We shall stand up to the occasion and refuse to allow people who do not wish Anambra State well to drag us into a situation whereby we will be turned into the guinea pig in Nigeria polity, he said. Legit.ng earlier reported that President Muhammadu Buhari might order the forfeiture of assets belonging to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to the federal government following the designation of the group as a terrorist organisation. Watch this video as Nigerians react to Nnamdi Kanu's activities: Source: Legit.ng - The Arewa Consultative Forum says it will support restructuring if such a move will strengthen the unity of Nigeria with equal rights and opportunities for all citizens - The Northern Elders Forum states that the north is ready for dialogue with other regions of the country on restructuring Junaid Mohammed describes Atiku Abubakar as a nonentity who is not genuinely interested in restructuring The northern region appears to has relaxed its opposition to the calls for restructuring of Nigeria as two northern groups, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) have indicated interest to partake in the debate on restructuring. READ ALSO: Arrest Nnamdi Kanu within 21 days or face national protest - Abia lawmakers tell FG The national publicity secretary of the ACF, Alhaji Muhammad Biu, told the Punch newspaper in an interview on Sunday, September 24, that the forum will support the call for the restructuring only if the country is restructured to strengthen the unity of Nigeria with equal rights and opportunities for all citizens. He said: ACF respects the views of Nigerians on any structure of government that will strengthen our unity and peaceful coexistence for equitable development. ACF reaffirms its commitment to one united, indivisible and indissoluble Nigeria with equal rights and opportunities for all. We also support due process within our democratic institutions in effecting any structural change for the common good of all. Similarly, the chairman of the NEF, Paul Unongo, said the north was ready for dialogue with other regions of the country on restructuring but warned that the north would not be coerced into carrying out any action unfavorable to its development. Unongo said: The North is very open to dialogue. I am the chairman of the northern elders and nobody can say we will not encourage dialogue. We love Nigeria but we will not be stampeded into carrying out someones agenda. The uneducated North of pre-independence times was not the same North of today. Today, we have Ph.D holders in every discipline. PAY ATTENTION: Read the news on Nigerias #1 new app I think we need a dialogue. It will not be easy for the North to say take away our advantages and give us nothing. They (southern elements) were the ones that allowed the British to do this." Meanwhile, Junaid Mohammed who is a second republic lawmaker has lashed out at Atiku Abubakar describing him as a nonentity who is not genuinely interested in restructuring. The former vice president had said that anyone opposed to the current clamour for the restructuring of the nation is lazy but Mohammed in his reaction said Atiku was a nonentity The Sun reports that the former lawmaker said that Atiku thinks that by insulting the north, the south will support his presidential ambition. In the video below, Legit.ng TV asked some Nigerians if they prefer restructuring of Nigeria or separation of the country. Source: Legit.ng - Doyin Okupe has expressed support for President Muhammadu Buharis move to promulgate a law against hate speech - While stating that former president Goodluck Jonathan was probably the most abused president in Nigerias history, Okupe stated that there is an absolute need for sanity because what goes on in the social media is pathetic - According to Okupe, hate speech should not be allowed to go on, as he stated that people should not be exposed to all sorts of unreasonable assault just because they are public servants President Muhammadu Buharis move to promulgate a law against hate speech, has received public support from Doyin Okupe, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. The former presidential aide made his comments while speaking as a panelist at the Vanguard Conference Hall on Hate Speech, on Monday, September 25. READ ALSO: Why I refused to collect the petition for my recall from INEC - Dino Melaye Legit.ng notes that while answering a question about whether the promulgation of a law against hate speech was justified, Okupe stressed that people in government needed to be protected from hate speech, as most of the things being shared on social media are pathetic. He further revealed that Jonathan was perhaps the most abused president in the nations history. He stated: I was the one who raised that issue, and I still say that Jonathan, as one person and as a leader of a country is perhaps, the most abused in terms of hate speech in the history of this country. Now, your question is extremely very pertinent. If somebody has gone through it and nothing happened, do we now have a justification to want to stop it? Yes, we do. I will support this administration with the idea that this type of thing should not be allowed to be visited. The current president is also taking a share of his own hate speech, but we must stop it somewhere. There is no need to allow this thing to fester on more than it has gone so far. I agree that there is a justification for the law and that we need to look into the situation properly and a proper law should be enacted that can control what we say and how we say them, especially on the social media. There is absolute need for sanity because what goes on in the social media is pathetic, it is unthinkable. When I see a young man of 24 years old saying that Wole Soyinka is a fool, that may not be exactly hate speech, but it is intolerable. Today, I am not in government but there are people in government; but being in government should not expose you to all sorts of assault simply because you are Minister of Information, President or Vice President. It should not make you be a target for unreasonable assault and attack. You cannot protect or defend yourself, and there are no sanctions for those who do those things. Therefore, for me, I will support this administration in this idea of trying to find a law to create sanity in the social media and also to prevent reckless statements that can incite or dehumanize people for no other reason except that they are in government offices. PAY ATTENTION: Install our latest app for Android, read best news on Nigerias #1 news app Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that Alhaji Saad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, threw his weight behind the move by the federal government to make the propagation of hate speech/fake news a crime. The Sultan lamented that the propagation of hate speech had reached fever pitch, and supported the recent statement made by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, that none will be allowed to get away with making speeches that can cause sedition or that can cause violence." According to the monarch, hate speech should be designated as a terrorism offence. Watch this Legit.ng TV video asking Nigerians if they are tired of Buhari Source: Legit.ng - Justice Mamman Nasir has called on the north not to dismiss the calls for Nigerias restructuring, as mere developmental challenges - Nasir stated that the north must also address the issue of the Boko Haram insurgency and the rise of hate speech, as a matter of urgency - He stressed that Nigeria was currently at a crossroads, and that the north must attend to these various issues with resolution and tact Justice Mamman Nasir, chairman, Advisory Council, Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, has urged the north not to dismiss the calls for restructuring, as doing so will be dangerous for the country. According to reports, Nasir made his comments during a courtesy visit to the Nasarawa state governor, Tanko Al-Makura, with other members of the foundation. READ ALSO: Why I support Buharis move to make hate speech a crime - Doyin Okupe Legit.ng notes that Nasir stressed that the nation was at a crossroads and that the north must find ways to address the challenges Nigeria faces. He stated: Nigeria is currently at a stage we may call crossroads, particularly, the challenge is for the North to find the appropriate, well-guided response to the myriads of issues surrounding the nation. Most importantly, we cannot dismiss the calls for the restructuring for whatever that stands for, and the desires and threats of some groups to dismember the country as mere developmental challenges. The irritating reappearances of the Boko Haram, even with the dogged commitment of the Nigerian Army to end the insurgency for good, are also of concern; similarly, the pervading hate speech through the social media that has engulfed our youths in particular has dangerous religious and sectional colors and needs to be urgently attended to resolutely and with tact. PAY ATTENTION: Install our latest app for Android, read best news on Nigerias #1 news app Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) weighed in again on the controversial issues of restructuring the country, and disclosed what it would not accept. According to the group, while they acknowledge the persistent calls for Nigeria to be restructured, they would not be stampeded into adopting a grand design from other regions, which would not be in their best interest. Watch this Legit.ng TV video asking if Nigeria should be restructured or split: Source: Legit.ng You must have heard that you can use now WhatsApp on PC. Since the launch of WhatsApp web, people have started using it on computers and laptops. However, one small detail exists, you need to have a smartphone currently connected to the WhatsApp. So, if you are wondering how to use WhatsApp on computer without phone, keep reading this post to find out all answers. WhatsApp is one of the largest social messaging application in the world. When WhatsApp was first launched, it was available only on Android smartphones. It was later extended to other operating systems such as iOS, Windows, Symbian and others. Then WhatsApp Web was later launched to allow people use WhatsApp on PCs. Initially, when you use WhatsApp on PC, your smartphone must be conected. So, people started asking and searching for the answers for how they can use WhatsApp on a computer without a smartphone. This was impossible before but now there is a way you can use WhatsApp on your computer without any obstacles. Follow the instructions below and find out how to use WhatsApp on your system. READ ALSO: New Yahoo mail registration guide How to use WhatsApp on computer without phone First of all, you need to download an Android Emulator called BlueStacks on your PC. To do this, open your favorite browser and visit www.bluestacks.com. Click on Download BlueStacks options on the website page. After downloading the BlueStacks application, install it on your laptop. After the application has finished installing, go to your desktop and double-click on the BlueStacks shortcut to open the application. Once youve launched the application, you should see a list of popular applications. If WhatsApp is among them, select it and click on the install option. After installation of WhatsApp on your computer, open the WhatsApp by double-clicking on it on the WhatsApp icon on your desktop. You will be asked to provide your mobile phone number or home phone number. Enter the number and wait for a verification code which will be sent via SMS. If you are using a home phone number, you will see a verification failed message with a Call Me option on your system. Select the Call Me option, so that the code can be dictated to you over a voice message. Once you have the verification code, enter it in the pop-up on your PC screen. Your account will be created and ready for use if you entered the correct code. You can now start chatting with your contacts from your computer. Now you know how to use WhatsApp on PC without a smartphone. You can also use other social messaging applications on BlueStacks. Note that there are other ways you can use WhatsApp on a laptop without a smartphone but this is by far the easiest and best of them all. READ ALSO: How many non-overlapping channels are available with 802.11h? Watch how to use WhatsApp on PC without Smartphone below. Source: Legit.ng - Nigerian soldiers under Operation Sharan Daji raided Kahiru dreaded forest in Zamfara state - The troops recovered cows, sheep and goats during the exercise - The soldiers also killed one of the armed bandits occupying the forest Troops of 1 Brigade, 1 Division Nigerian army under the Operation Sharan Daji have successfully raided a dreaded forest in Zamfara state where armed bandits had made their dens. The raid by the soldiers took place on Monday September 25, 2017, at the Kahiru forest, Bakura local government rea of Zamfara state. READ ALSO: Arrest Nnamdi Kanu within 21 days or face national protest - Abia lawmakers tell FG On approaching the camp, the suspected bandits opened fire on the troops and attempted to escape. Come of the makeshift homes in the camp set ablaze by the troops. Credit: SK Usman The troops returned fire, killing one of the armed bandits and recovered 50 cows, 82 goats and 25 sheep abandoned by the armed bandits, a statement by Brigadier-General Sani Kukasheka Usman, the spokesperson of the army, said. Some of the animals recovered by the Nigerian trrops. Credit: SK Usman Legit.ng earlier reported that troops of 1 Division of the Nigerian army and operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS) on Sunday, September 24, arrested two suspected illegal arms dealers along Funtua-Gusau road in Zamfara state. PAY ATTENTION: Read the news on Nigerias #1 new app This was contained in a statement issued by Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman who is the director of army public relations on Monday, September 25. Watch this video as the wife of a Boko Haram victim cries to the government to save her husband: Source: Legit.ng - The Nigeria police has arrested number 165 on Boko Haram wanted list - Idris Babawo was arrested on Sunday, September 24, in Ondo state - He has since been handed over to Nigerian army for further investigation and possible prosecution The Nigeria police on Sunday, September 24, arrested a declared wanted Boko Haram terrorist Idris Babawo in Ondo state. Babawo, 42, also known as Idiko and Nagada, the police said is believed to be number 165 on the Nigerian military's Boko Haram wanted list. READ ALSO: IPOB: Saraki's presence in the National Assembly is a threat to Nigeria's unity Idris Babawo was arrested on Sunday, September 24, in Ondo state. Photo credit: Facebook, Sani Usman The spokesperson to the Nigerian army, Sani Usman, in a statement said Babawo was handed over to the 32 Brigade, 2 Division, Nigerian army, at about 2pm on Monday, September 25. Usman said: "Preliminary investigation shows that the terrorist kingpin hailed from Chinade village, Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi State. He escaped from the North East due to military onslaught on the terrorists with a view evade arrest and prosecution. But nemesis caught up with him" Idris Babawo was arrested on Sunday, September 24, in Ondo state. Photo credit: Facebook, Sani Usman READ ALSO: Only God can help Biafra now - IPOBs US coordinator laments on social media Legit.ng earlier reported that the federal government is set to prosecute 1,600 Boko Haram members. The trial of the terrorists, FG said, will resume on Monday, October 9. PAY ATTENTION: Read the news on Nigerias #1 new app Also, the attorney general of the federation and minister of justice Abubakar Malami said there were 33 cases of terrorism taking place across several courts in Nigeria. You can watch this Legit.ng exclusive video of woman begging Nigerian government to rescue her husband from Boko Haram terrorists: Source: Legit.ng - Senator Barau Jubrin states that it is necessary for the executive to be focused so that the country does not slide back into recession - On his part, Senator NaAllah calls on the executive to immediately implement the 2017 budget House of Representatives resolves to revisit the devolution of power bill on resumption of plenary The Nigerian Senate has invited the minister of budget and national planning, Udoma Udo Udoma and his finance counterpart, Kemi Adeosun, over the lack of funding of the 2017 budget. READ ALSO: IPOB: MACBAN frowns at Saraki's statement, calls for probe The duo were summoned following a motion on the stabilizing and sustaining post-recession growth of the economy which was raised during plenary on Tuesday, September 26. Senator Barau Jubrin, during deliberation on the floor of the House, stated that it was necessary for the executive to be focused so that the country does not slide back into recession. On his part, Senator NaAllah called on the executive to immediately implement the budget. Similarly, Senator Dino Melaye queried why the government was not funding the budget now that the country was out of recession. PAY ATTENTION: Read the news on Nigerias #1 new app Senate president Bukola Saraki in his submission said the government was on the right track but needed to do more on infrastructure. The Senate president then requested that Senate majority leader, Ahmed Lawan, follow up on the invitation of of the ministers of finance and budget and national planning over the issue. See tweets on the Senates deliberation below: Meanwhile, following the tension generated by agitation in the country, the House of Representatives has resolved to revisit the devolution of power bill on resumption of plenary. The green chamber also plans to strengthen the unity of the country by assigning a high power committee to go round to interact with stakeholder across the six geo-political zones. The House arrived at these resolutions following a motion moved by House majority leader, Femi Gbajabiamila on Tuesday, September 26, under matters of urgent public importance, The Independent reports. Watch Nigerians on Legit.ng TV give their views on the age requirement reduction of political office holders by the Nigerian Senate Source: Legit.ng - Nigeria and turkey have agreed to cooperate to stop the export of harmful items into both countries - The agreement was made by Col.Hameed Ali, the comptroller-general of Customs, retired and Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Hakan Cakil - Joseph Attah, Customs service public relations officer said the meeting was held due to concerns expressed by the general public over the recent seizures of pump actions riffles imported from Turkey The Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Col.Hameed Ali and Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Hakan Cakil, have agreed to cooperate to stop the export of harmful items into both countries. Ali announced this in a statement by the service public relations Officer, Mr Joseph Attah, on Tuesday, September 26, in Abuja. Attah said the meeting was held due to concerns expressed by the general public over the recent seizures of pump actions riffles imported from Turkey. He added that the aim of the meeting was to fashion out ways of dealing with the disturbing issues. Attah said that Ali expressed concern that four different arms seizures with a total number of 2,671 pump action riffles came from one source. According to him, the meeting lasted for about two hours, detailed with specific commitments and strategies to stem the ugly tide. READ ALSO: Federal government crashes price of registering companies in Nigeria The meeting ended with both sides agreeing to work together to stop the dangerous trend. Both agreed to use the situation as opportunity to strengthen ties to prevent the use of either country as a base for export of harmful items to the other, Attah said. Attah said that the highlights of the meeting included the Turkish ambassador restating his countrys support for Nigetias security and well being, saying that Turkey would not support any dangerous shipment to Nigeria. All the four shipments intercepted were false declarations on the bill of lading , it is a clear case of smuggling. The Turkish ambassador will immediately communicate to his home with the view to fishing out criminals behind the illegal arms shipment to Nigeria. A team of Nigerian Customs will visit the Turkish Customs to further discus ways of nipping such arms export from Turkey and strengthening agreement on mutual customs-to-customs assistance. The Nigeria Customs will provide for the Turkish authority list of prohibited items and in the case of arms, sample of end user certificate to enable them to always verify before approving any legal arms export to Nigeria. Attah also stated that the Turkish government would co-operate with Nigeria in every step to deal decisively with those found involved. PAY ATTENTION: Watch more videos on Legit.ng TV Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that two out of the five men being prosecuted by the federal government for unlawful importation of 661 pump-action rifles into the country have indicated their intention to enter into plea bargain with the prosecution. Legit.ng reports that the defendants - Mahmud Hassan, Oscar Okafor, Donatus Achinulo, Matthew Okoye, said to be at large, and Salihu Danjuma had been arraigned by the attorney general of the federation on June 14 before the Federal High Court in Lagos. Watch this Legit.ng TV video asking if Operation Crocodile Smile II is necessary: Source: Legit.ng By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She now spends much of her time in Asia and is currently working on a book about textile artisans. The $3 trillion global fashion industry is second only to the oil industry in its pernicious impact on the environment. The red hot, growing fast fashion industry which produces cheap, disposable clothes, sometimes for a single use only worsens the industrys environmental impact, by generating huge amount of textile waste. US consumers typically each toss out eighty pounds of textiles per year, while those in the UK, on average, 350,000 tonnes of used clothing ends up in landfills annually (as I discussed in this post, The High Hidden Costs of Fast Fashion). Forbes has just published a ridiculously upbeat assessment of this problem, its headline clearly spelling out its thesis: Why India and China May Be The Solution To The Worlds Fast Fashion Crisis. Forbes rests much of the argument on two observations. First, emerging market consumers, when surveyed, place greater emphasis on sustainability compared to those in mature markets. This is particularly true for respondents from India and China, which together, account for more than a quarter the global population: The State of Fashion 2017 report, citing Global Lifestyle Monitor, reveals that 65% of consumers in emerging markets actively seek out sustainable fashion versus 32% or less in mature markets , a finding backed up by Mastercards 2015 Ethical Shopping Survey. Coming in at 78% of respondents for India and 65% for China, sustainability is by and large a key consideration for consumers in these two hotspots. And second, these emerging market consumers currently consume less textiles than do consumers in more developed countries. Forbes again: Even where sales grew eight times faster (in developing countries like Brazil, China, India, Mexico and Russia) consumers are still more reserved in their spending than their developed market counterparts. Even after this increase, the average developing-country resident purchases a fraction of the clothing that his or her developed-world counterpart buys each year,McKinsey reports. Now, I admit, theres an attractiveness to this thesis. I dont know very much about China, although I have visited several times. But I do know a bit about India which has a very different attitude toward waste than prevails in the US (as Ive previously discussed in this post, Waste Not, Want Not: Right to Repair Laws on Agenda in Some States. Wasting food is considered to be sinful, a healthy repair culture flourishes, and items are typically reused and repurposed including used clothing, which is either handed down, or often made into quilts such as kantha, the celebrated stitch painting of Bengal (see this luscious exhibition catalogue, Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal). In fashion area, India still maintains a certain separateness. To be sure, global brands are present, some are thriving, and demand for them is increasing particularly among younger city residents. Yet overall, Indian producers of traditional textiles are also flourishing. Indian women, for example, still wear saris particularly for more formal occasions or basic salwar kameez the far-more-attractive and climate appropriate version of Hillarys pant suits. And what Indian male politician would be willing to surrender his Nehru jacket the ubiquitous uniform throughout the country for politicians? India has for millennia, led the world in producing the finest quality textiles, and people retain an awareness of, and appreciation for quality. Tailoring is still widely available, and reasonably priced, so clothing fits (which is by no means the norm in the US and many parts of Europe, as discussed in What If Clothes Were Made to Fit Bodies?) Unfortunately, as much as Id like to hope that consumers in emerging markets might herald a shift away from the current destructive, wasteful patterns, I have several concerns with the Forbes thesis. My first concern, as with other similar arguments e.g., millennials consume fewer goods and appreciate sustainability more that are based in an expected shift in who is consuming, that still leaves us very much with the status quo, whereby consumers consume, and waste, too many textiles in the present day. To follow on from that, there is a considerable leap that is being made here between what people say they value and what they actually buy as Ive discussed in this post, Fashion Industry Dogged By Sustainability Concerns. Some companies have developed successful models that make just such a leap, but they have tended to be small, niche operators. Im just not sure that consumers whether in emerging markets are elsewhere will widely be willing to pay up for sustainable fashion. As I wrote previously: Of course, theres an obvious disconnect here, between what even these consumers say theyre worried about sustainability and what theyre willing to pay for. Nonetheless, some companies have already latched onto such concerns, by building communities that cater to these customers seemingly successfully, at least in the short-term as discussed further in this piece, Community Is Core to Next-Gen Brands. Other designers have explicitly developed eco-friendly alternatives to the prevalent fast fashion model, as discussed further in this South China Morning Post piece, Sustainable K-fashion finds fans in Korea as Seoul designers adopt eco-friendly strategies. And finally, even if such a leap can be made between what people say they value and what they purchase, are such attitudes stable? I wonder whether consumer attitudes in emerging markets will stay as they are, or whether people will become more wasteful as they become richer. Maybe waste is a privilege that arises from wealth an admittedly unsustainable one but one that its not altogether surprising to find in mature, wealthier economies. Those with less simply can not afford to be wasteful. As more people in India and China move into the middle class, will they still maintain their current, more sustainable attitudes and purchasing patterns?Or will they, too, jump on the waste train, and help further despoil the planet. Depressing Alternative I just want to close with an alternative scenario, one spelled out by McKinsey in Style thats sustainable: A new fast-fashion formula. The following graphic illustrates what the impact would be on CO2 emissions, water use, and land use if 80% of emerging markets consumers achieve Western per capita consumption levels for clothing. EXHIBIT A Source: Style thats sustainable: A new fast-fashion formula Bottom Line I think this Forbes piece exemplifies a certain type of magical thinking. 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(Natural News) Curbing the use of fossil fuels is often singled out as the best way to tackle climate change, but a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters shows that the problem of deforestation should not be overlooked as it contributes far more to climate change than once believed. The new paper, which is titled, Are the Impacts of Land Use on Warming Underestimated in Climate Policy? illustrates the dramatic impact that deforestation has on climate change. In fact, it shows that even if all fossil fuel emissions were somehow eliminated, we would still note a 1.5-degree rise in global warming if the current tropical deforestation rates maintain their current pace through the year 2100. Part of the reason for this, as the papers lead author Natalie M. Mahowald points out, is that the particulates that are released when fossil fuels are burned might be harmful to our health, but they actually have a cooling effect on the climate. Therefore, removing them would make it even more difficult to reach the lower temperatures set out by the Paris agreement. In the cutting and burning that takes place in deforestation, carbon dioxide is released by the affected trees and plants, but that is only a small part of the equation. After the natural lands are converted to agricultural or other human uses, greenhouse gases like methane and nitrous oxide are released. These compound carbon dioxides effect of trapping energy from the sun in the atmosphere, the paper says, contributing to a warmer climate. In fact, although just 20 percent of the increase in carbon dioxide created by human activity can be traced to land-cover change and land use, the warming proportion that comes from land use versus other human activity rises to 40 percent once the co-emissions of methane and nitrous oxide have been taken into account. Mahowald also pointed out that the carbon that is released by deforested areas doubles over time because its potential to function as a natural sink in the future is eliminated, as she discovered in a previous study. Therefore, extended timelines should be used to assess activities impact on the climate, particularly in tropical areas. This is in line with research published in Science showing that rampant deforestation in places like Brazil and Indonesia emits more than a quarter of the greenhouse gases caused by human activity. Deforestation is on the rise According to data released by the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil, nearly 8,000 square kilometers of the Amazon rainforest was lost to clear cutting in the year leading to July 2016, a year-over-year rise of 29 percent. Many people feel powerless to stop mass deforestation, but grassroots initiatives can be surprisingly effective in this regard. A recent study by the University of Cambridge discovered that conservation initiatives led by indigenous and local groups can be every bit as effective as government-led schemes in stemming the problem. Moreover, they found that in some cases in the Amazon, grassroots efforts can be even more effective at protecting the ecosystem. The scientists reached their conclusion after looking into the effectiveness of various approaches to Amazon conservation in Peru in the years from 2006 to 2011. By combining remote sensing data with socio-economic and environment-related datasets, they were able to assess the approaches and find which ones worked best. Local conservation initiatives deserve more political, financial and legal support than they currently receive, said lead author Dr. Judith Schleicher. According to their analysis, there is not one single effective means of protecting tropical rainforests. Instead, multiple approaches must be used to keep the problem under control. Sources include: ScienceDaily.com ScienceDaily.com NaturalNews.com TreeHugger.com (Natural News) Most Americans are well aware of the fact that Democrats are staunch supporters of a womans right to have an abortion, but what many people dont understand is the lengths that these leftists go to advance their agenda. In Missouri, for instance, Planned Parenthood is actually teaming up with Satanists in an effort to break through the states strict laws on abortion. Despite the fact that Planned Parenthood has an uphill battle, the pro-abortion organization has certainly made progress in Missouri in recent months, especially after a U.S. district judge granted a preliminary injunction invalidating the states high standards for abortion clinics. Just this past Monday, Planned Parenthood Great Plains announced that they will soon be offering abortion services at two more clinics, including the one that they have located in midtown Kansas City (Related: The abortion industry generates nearly $1 billion per year by murdering babies.) But a small handful of abortion clinics across the entire state of Missouri is not nearly enough for Planned Parenthood and the left, so they must continue looking for ways to ram their radical agenda even further down the throats of the American people. As it turns out, one such way is by teaming up with the Satanic Temple because if youre already advocating for unethical practices and the abandonment of morality, why not just go all the way with it? Earlier this week, the Satanic Temple indirectly advanced Planned Parenthoods agenda by arguing in a Missouri court that the states abortion laws violated the rights of their members to the freedom of religion. How ironic it is that the Satanic Temple argues for the freedom of religion when it comes to fighting for abortion rights, but would likely abandon that support for the freedom of religion if the individual or group in question were of the Christian faith. The Satanic Temple has assisted Planned Parenthood on their quest to make abortions more accessible and socially acceptable before, primarily because of the Temples belief that Ones body is inviolable, subject to ones own will alone. When it was revealed last year that Planned Parenthood was selling the limbs and organs of aborted babies, for instance, the Satanic Temple rushed to Planned Parenthoods defense by planning and holding a series of counter protests at pro-life rallies. The Temple also filed a lawsuit with the state of Missouri because one of their members allegedly had to wait 72 hours before getting an abortion (Related: Planned Parenthood believes that DACA children should be protected unless they were murdered before being born.) The fact that Planned Parenthood is working with a group that worships Satin is actually rather unsurprising when you consider the dark truth about the organizations founding. Margaret Sanger, the original founder of Planned Parenthood, was both a eugenicist who believed in abortion as a means of controlling the population, and a racist. In her autobiography, Sanger even wrote about a time when she proudly delivered a speech before the Ku Klux Klan: I accepted an invitation to talk to the womens branch of the Ku Klux Klan I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered. There really is no other way of looking at it: The abortion industry is sick, corrupt and evil. With any luck, America will one day look back on the practice of destroying an innocent form of life before its even outside of the womb and cringe. We will read about abortion in the history books and think to ourselves, Was that really us? How could we have done such a thing? What on earth were we thinking? Sources include: Breitbart.com LifeSiteNews.com (Natural News) A devastating sight came to shore last year, when over a dozen whales beached themselves along the German coastline. Four of the 13 stranded sperm whales had stomachs filled with plastic trash and other garbage a sign of the times and a clear indicator that humans are taking their toll across the globe. These findings show us the results of our plastic-oriented society. Animals inadvertently consume plastic and plastic waste, which causes them to suffer, and at worst, causes them to starve with full stomachs, Robert Habeck, the environment minister for the state of Schleswig-Holstein, commented. The 13 whales were stranded in January and February of 2016 along Schleswig-Holsteins North Sea coast. Professor Ursula Siebert, head of the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research at the Tierarztliche Hochschule Hannover (ITAW), worked with her team to investigate. The team confirmed that all of the whales were young, between 10 and 15 years old none of them had reached maturity yet. Though several had stomachs filled with plastic, further investigation revealed that was not their ultimate cause of death; the scientists concluded that the sperm whales died of heart failure. A tragedy, nonetheless and further, you might question if the plastic garbage still may have contributed to the whales untimely demise in one way or another. Nearly 30 whales were found on the shores of Germany in the span of just a few months during 2016. Regardless, ocean pollution in all its various forms is a real problem. When it comes to whales, this was not the first time members of the behemoth marine creatures were found dead with stomachs filled with plastic. And unless humans do something to stop their unyielding wave of plastic pollution, it probably wont be the last time, either. As True Activist reports, back in 2011 another whale was found with a stomach full of plastic off the Greek island of Myokonos. The young whales stomach was so distended, scientists thought it had ingested a giant squid. What they found though, was that the poor creature had actually consumed over 100 plastic bags and other garbage. More recently, a whale found in Norway was discovered to have consumed over 30 plastic bags as well. In early 2017, the young, malnourished whale had to be put down by local wardens after it got stranded and was in serious distress. The Daily Mail reported that the whale was emaciated and had little blubber, which led investigators to posit that the whale was malnourished. At the University of Bergen, researchers dissected the whale and found its stomach was filled with garbage. Incidents like this occur on a regular basis, and every time is more disheartening than the last. When will enough be enough? Plastic waste has already become a planetary scourge and the problem is only going to get worse. Experts estimate that by the year 2050, there will be more pieces of plastic in the ocean than fish. If that doesnt paint a clear enough picture, current estimates suggest that there are already five trillion pieces of garbage floating in the oceanhow much more until we destroy the oceans completely? And further, what will happen when its too late and theres no recourse? While climate-change enthusiasts are harping about something that may never actually come to be, there is real damage being done to the environment and the animals that live in it right now. [Related: Keep up with the latest news on environmental disasters, hoaxes and travesties at Environ.news.] Sources for this article include: NationaPark-Wattenmeer.de TrueActivist.com DailyMail.co.uk (Natural News) Thunderstorms and flooding are expected to become more intense because of human activities, according to reports by Science Daily. In the first report by the Science Daily, scientists observed how thunderstorms directly above two of the worlds busiest shipping lanes were more powerful than storms in areas of the ocean where ships do not travel. The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, found that lightning occurred nearly twice as often directly above heavily-trafficked shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea than they do in other areas of the ocean with similar climates. This study is the first to prove ship exhaust can affect thunderstorm intensity and that humans are changing cloud formation, which affects rainfall patterns and alters climate, on a nearly continual basis. The researchers suggested that aerosol particles emitted in ship exhaust are changing how storm clouds form over the ocean and that particles from ship exhaust made cloud droplets smaller, which lifted them higher in the atmosphere. This created more ice particles which led to more lightning. Its one of the clearest example of how humans are actually changing the intensity of storm processes on Earth through the emission of particulates from combustion, said Joel Thornton, lead author and an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington. Katrina Virts, co-author and atmospheric scientist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, noticed a nearly straight line of lightning strokes across the Indian Ocean when she analyzed data from the World Wide Lightning Location Network, a network of sensors that locates lightning strokes all over the globe. All we had to do was make a map of where the lightning was enhanced and a map of where the ships are traveling and it was pretty obvious just from the co-location of both of those that the ships were somehow involved in enhancing lightning, Thornton said. He said that ships burn dirtier fuels in the open ocean away from port, spewing more aerosols, and creating even more lightning. Aerosols act as cloud condensation nuclei, the seeds on which clouds form. In another Science Daily report, researchers found that the East Coast of the United States may experience more frequent flooding in the future. The findings, published in Scientific Reports, showed that the states of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina are most at risk. The researchers from the Universities of Bonn, South Florida, and Rhode Island evaluated data from the East Coast of America, including global positioning system and satellite measurements. Results showed that large parts of the coastal region are slowly yet steadily sinking into the Atlantic Ocean. According to Makan A. Karegar from the University of South Florida, there are two primary reasons for this phenomenon. Karegar explained that during the last ice age, around 20,000 years ago, large parts of Canada were covered by an ice sheet. This tremendous mass passed down on the continent. When the ice sheet melted, the process was reversed and the East Coast has been sinking back down for the last few thousand years, which explains the submerging of some parts of the coastal regions. (Related: Global warming computer models collapse; Arctic ice sheets rapidly expand as planet plunges into global cooling.) When groundwater is removed, the land mass can be compressed more greatly. It partially collapses into itself and thus sinks even more, he explained. The researchers calculated that East Coast cities lie at least 45 centimeters lower today than 300 years ago because of the glacier effect. They also assumed that the significant use of groundwater caused it. Even if the removal of groundwater is reduced, the number of floods will thus continue to increase, Karegar predicted. Read more news at ClimateScienceNews.com. Sources include: ScienceDaily.com 1 ScienceDaily.com 2 The Trump administration said Monday it's not seeking to overthrow North Korea's government after the president tweeted that Kim Jong Un "won't be around much longer" and called Pyongyang's assertion absurd that Donald Trump's comment amounted to a declaration of war. Still, the fiery rhetoric carrying over from a week of threatening exchanges at the U.N. General Assembly only further fueled fears the adversaries might stumble back into open military conflict. The Korean War ended seven decades ago without a formal peace treaty and tensions related to the North's nuclear advances have escalated for months. At the U.N. on Monday, the North's top diplomat, Ri Yong Ho, argued that Trump's Twitter blast gives it the right to shoot down U.S. warplanes, like the strategic bombers Washington flew close to the border between the two Koreas over the weekend. Trump's Saturday tweet said: "Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much longer!" Trump also used "rocket man" for Kim in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly last week. While the comments may be read as an implicit threat to eliminate Kim, administration officials said Washington hadn't changed its policy and the U.S. isn't seeking regime change in Pyongyang. "We have not declared war on North Korea. Frankly the suggestion of that is absurd," White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters. "It's never appropriate for a country to shoot down another country's aircraft when it's over international waters." "Our goal is still the same. We continue to seek the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," she said. Cabinet officials, particularly Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, have insisted the U.S.-led campaign diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea is focused on eliminating the pariah state's nuclear weapons program, not its totalitarian government. But the more Trump muddies the picture, the tougher it may become to maintain cooperation with China and Russia, which seek a diplomatic solution to the nuclear crisis and not a new U.S. ally suddenly popping up on their borders. It also risks snuffing out hopes of persuading Kim's government to enter a negotiation when its survival isn't assured. Military maneuvers are adding to tensions along the two Koreas' heavily militarized border. In a show of might to North Korea, U.S. bombers and fighter escorts flew Saturday to the farthest point north of the border between North and South Korea by any such American aircraft this century. Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Rob Manning said Monday the operation was conducted in international airspace and legally permissible. The U.S. has a "deep arsenal of military options to provide the president so that he can then decide how he wants to deal with North Korea," he said. "We are prepared to defend ourselves and our allies from an attack and are prepared to use the full range of capabilities at our disposal against the threat from North Korea," Manning told reporters. North Korea's Ri said Monday that the world doesn't want "the war of words" between his country and the U.S. to "turn into real action." He said Trump's claim that "our leadership wouldn't be around much longer" exacerbates the situation. "Given the fact that this comes from someone who is currently holding the seat of (the) United States presidency, this is clearly a declaration of war." North Korea has responded to past U.S. slights by equating them to declarations of war a state that still formally exists between them because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a formal peace treaty. In 2013, North Korea declared its relations with South Korea, a close U.S. ally, in a "state of war" after U.S. and international condemnation of a nuclear test explosion. Three years later, North Korea said U.S. sanctions on leader Kim and other top officials were tantamount to a war declaration. After that, the North severed a tenuous diplomatic channel to the State Department, which was renewed once Trump took office. "What we see is another case of North Korean 'coercion by bluster'," said Bruce Bennett, a Rand Corp. analyst. "The North Korean regime is trying to convince the United States and President Trump in particular to back down." A rapid series of missile and nuclear tests this year have raised alarm that North Korea is nearing its longstanding ambition of having an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction capable of striking the United States. The General Assembly gathering, usually a time for diplomacy, has only added to global unease over the nuclear standoff. In his first U.N. speech, Trump threatened to destroy Korea if it attacks the U.S. or its allies. Kim responded with a rare statement, calling Trump "deranged" and warning of a stern "countermeasure." Hours later, Ri said the North's response could be to detonate a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific. Its past nuclear tests have been underground inside North Korea. In yet another sign of how the Internet of Things (IoT) is re-arranging the international corporate landscape, Japanese manufacturing giant Hitachi is reorganizing to challenge the global leaders in the IoT market. The conglomerate is combining three of its Bay Area divisions into a single $4 billion unit responsible for growing Hitachi's IoT operations in more than 130 countries. The new IoT-centric operation will combine Hitachi Data Systems (data center infrastructure), Hitachi Insight Group (big data software) and Pentaho (analytics) into a wholly owned subsidiary called Hitachi Vantara, which will employ some 7,000 people (about a of third of Hitachis IT workforce) out of its Santa Clara, California, headquarters. + Also on Network World: Aruba rolls out security fabric designed for IoT and the digital era + The company made its goals clear in a press release: Hitachi Vantara will harness business, human and machine data across OT and IT environments to build comprehensive, data-driven solutions. Customers will be able to manage, store, govern, blend, analyze and visualize data and then take action based on uncovered insights. On a more practical level, according to Nikkei Asian Review, Vantara will be responsible for linking IT teams in Japan, China, India, Europe and elsewhere to develop new services and create proposals for clients in markets around the world from Silicon Valley. The reorganization allows Vantara to give orders across departments and group companies. Fortune reports that the three groups customers include Disney, BME, InfoSys and Marks & Spenser. Targeting large-scale IoT deals The move is significant for a couple of reasons. First, its a big bet on Insight's Lumada IoT technology platform for connected devices in industrial settings. Also in Fortune, IDC Research Director Stacy Crook explained, The big reveal is now Lumada will be a standalone commercial offering and sit at the middle of Hitachi's IoT strategy. More importantly, though, its a clear announcement of intentions to compete on the largest-scale IoT deals against the likes of GE, Siemens, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and others. Reports also noted that Hitachi is investing some $2.8 billion in three years to further build out its IoT business. For example, Hitachi Data Systems and Pentaho reportedly hired an additional 1,000 people last year. (Hitachi Data Systems bought Pentaho in 2015 for a reported $500 million to $600 million.) Hitachis overall goal is reportedly to boost IoT revenues by 20 percent from 2106 to almost $1 billion in 2018. Vantara Chief Solutions and Services Officer Bobby Soni told Fortune, "Our strategy is to bring industrial IoT expertise, our software and ability to manage and run technology. We don't think many companies are in a position to pull all those things together." Clearly, theres a lot at stake: Hitachis press release cited Gartner estimates that the IoT market will top $440 billion by 2020. And Bloomberg noted that IoT accounted for $5.4 billion of Hitachis sales in the fiscal year ended March 2016, about 6 percent of total revenue. But Hitachi is convinced it can grab a bigger share of the potential market. The press release made it explicit: The new company is targeting the emerging IoT market opportunity in which there is no clear winner yet. And with a variety of huge multinational technology companies wading in, it may take a while for the clear winners to separate themselves from the also-rans. A new technique that targets drugs to specific cells could lead to improved therapies for diseases caused by an overactive immune response. The approach could help people affected by conditions such as arthritis and inflammatory bowel diseases, where the body's own immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissues. Researchers focused on a group of immune cells called macrophages - some of which help the body heal after injury, while others can promote harmful inflammation. The team at the University of Edinburgh sought to devise a new therapy to remove harmful macrophages while leaving healing cells unaffected They coupled a drug compound to a carrier molecule that only becomes active in acidic conditions, such as those found inside harmful macrophages. A fluorescent tag attached to the molecules enabled the team to track the cells affected by the drug. Lab tests on human macrophages showed the treatment preferentially affected inflammatory macrophages and did not affect healing cells. Studies with zebrafish, which share features of their immune system with people, found the treatment helped to improve the recovery of tissues after injury. The team hopes their approach could lead to more effective therapies, with fewer side effects, for the treatment of immune-related diseases. Their research was published in the journal ACS Central Science. Dr Marc Vendrell, of the Medical Research Council Centre for Inflammation Research at the University of Edinburgh, who led the study, said: "This is an important step forward in the design of more precise drugs with fewer side effects. In future studies, we want to exploit this technology to improve the treatment of diseases in which macrophages and immune cells are important." Even a partial report from the Congressional Budget Office was enough to apparently tip the scales against the latest Republican effort to overhaul the Affordable Care Act and prompted a crucial senator to announce she cannot support the bill, seemingly sinking its chances. The CBO said Monday that the bill offered by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) would meet the requirements for fast-track consideration in the Senate, but that "millions of additional people would be uninsured," if the bill became law. Within minutes of the report's release, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) tweeted her opposition to the bill, becoming the third Republican to do so. Republicans can afford to lose only two votes to pass the bill. In a statement, Collins said the CBO's analysis, "incomplete though it is due to time constraints, confirms that this bill will have a substantially negative impact on the number of people covered by insurance." Unlike earlier GOP proposals, the CBO did not have enough time to fully evaluate the impact of the proposal unveiled earlier this month. "In the short time available, CBO and [the Joint Committee on Taxation] could not complete a full analysis on the effects of this legislation on the federal budget," the report said. There's another complication the version of the proposed legislation analyzed by the CBO is not even the latest version. Sponsors made changes over the weekend to try to win votes from fence-sitting moderates and conservatives, including Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Collins. Asked at a Senate Finance Committee hearing Monday if the version on his website was the one the Senate might vote on, Cassidy replied, "I hope so." The CBO said that fewer people would be covered because subsidies that help people pay premiums and other financial aid would be eliminated, and individuals would no longer be required to have insurance or pay a fine. It also said the bill would dramatically change the Medicaid program. "All told, federal spending on Medicaid would be reduced by about $1 trillion over the 2017-2026 period under this legislation, and the program would cover millions less," the report said. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said if someone brings him a health proposal that can gain the 50 votes needed to pass under the budget reconciliation process, he will resume consideration of the bill that he pulled from consideration in July. The Senate's ability to use the fast-track process, however, expires at the end of the fiscal year, which is Saturday. Collins' announcement makes it almost impossible for Senators to reach that threshold, unless they can convince either Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) or Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to change their minds. They pledged to vote no last week. Adolescents who have experienced terror attacks suffer from sleep disturbance for years after the event. Researchers believe there is a need for better assessment and treatment of sleep disturbance in adolescents who have been exposed to trauma. A new study has shown that adolescents who have experienced terror attacks were more prone to insomnia, were excessively sleepy during the daytime, had frequent nightmares and suffered from obstructive sleep apnea. Obstructive sleep apnea is defined as difficulty breathing when asleep, often causing the sufferer to waken frequently, resulting in poor quality of sleep. "This indicates that sleep can be affected by stress, and that the extent of insomnia is cause for concern for these young lives," confirms Anne Marita Milde, Centre Director at Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, Uni Research Health, and one of the researchers behind the study. Insomnia is also a risk factor related to drug use, attention deficiencies, poor performance at school, and injuries and accidents among the younger population in general. More than 50% suffer from sleep disturbances The new study comprises 42 of the young persons who experienced the terror attack on Utya island on 22 July 2011. The study shows that 52.4% of this group suffered sleep problems for two years after the event. They had not experienced sleep disturbances prior to the events on Utya island. The mass shooting on Utya island is the deadliest attack in Norway since World War II. 564 members of the Labour Party's youth division (AUF) were taking part in the annual summer camp on the island of Utya in Norway and experienced the mass shooting. The terrorist traveled over to the island by ferry, dressed as a policeman. In the space of 80 minutes, 67 persons were brutally shot and killed, two died from a fall and drowning and 66 were shot and injured. Link to mental health Sleep disturbance also appears to have links with mental health. The researchers found that sleep disturbances were more prevalent in adolescents with psychiatric diagnoses than in adolescents without psychiatric diagnoses. "It is therefore necessary to assess and treat sleep-related disturbances after trauma in order to prevent intensification of existing disorders. There is also a need to continue to clarify the link between trauma, psychiatric diagnoses and sleep disturbance so that we are more capable of developing tools for the treatment of victims of traumatic life events," states Anne Marita Milde. The researchers believe that by treating sleep disturbances after a trauma, it will be possible to reduce the risk of the outbreak of mental health disorders and problem behavior. Captain Marvel and the X-Men crossover for Revenge of the Brood and Lord of the Brood Captain Marvel and the X-Men are about to embroiled in a two-part Brood-centric story GamesRadar+ is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Heres why you can trust us. If needed, India will execute more surgical strikes: Army Chief New Delhi : Army Chief General Bipin Rawat on Monday said the cross-LoC surgical strikes of last year were a message to Pakistan and hinted at more if necessary. "Strikes were a message we wanted to communicate. I think they understood what we mean. These things could follow if required," Rawat said speaking after the launch of book 'India's Most Fearless'. The book has an account of the surgical strikes conducted along the Myanmar border and across the LoC. Rawat said that terrorists will continue to come and Indian soldiers are ready to 'welcome' them. "We are prepared for any infiltration. Terrorists are ready at that side of the border and we are ready on this side to welcome them. We will receive them and send them to their graves," Rawat said. Japanese scientists have invented an approach to quantum computing that renders a far larger number of calculations more efficiently than existing quantum computers. They believe the technological building blocks exist and that the quantum loops can be experimentally realized with current technology. Their theoretical works suggests this can scale to millions of qubits for a universal quantum computer. Above the Loop-based architecture for universal quantum computing is shown, featuring a homodyne detector (HD), displacement operation (Disp.), a phase shifter (PS) and a variable beam splitter (VBS). Under the new method, many pulses of light, each carrying information, are allowed to go around in a loop circuit indefinitely. The circuit performs multiple tasks, switching from one task to another rapidly through instant manipulations of the pulses. The invention was announced in an article by University of Tokyo professor Akira Furusawa and assistant professor Shuntaro Takeda that was posted on an electronic version of the U.S. journal Physical Review Letters. Physical Review Letters Universal Quantum Computing with Measurement-Induced Continuous-Variable Gate Sequence in a Loop-Based Architecture Arxiv Universal Quantum Computing with Measurement-Induced Continuous-Variable Gate Sequence in a Loop-Based Architecture (5 pages) (a) Measurement-induced squeezing gate [5]. (b) Single-loop architecture for single-mode Clifford (Gaussian) gates. (c)(e) Procedure for an arbitrary single-mode Clifford gate. We assume that the input pulse initially arrives at the VBS at time t=0. (f) Programmable control sequence of system parameters. (g) Decomposition of an arbitrary n-mode Clifford gate Well start work to develop the hardware, now that weve resolved all problems except how to make a scheme that automatically corrects a calculation error, Furusawa said. In 2013, Furusawas team developed a basic system for optical quantum computing. The system requires more than 500 mirrors and lenses and occupies space 4.2 meters long and 1.5 meters wide, while it can handle only one pulse. To boost the capacities, many units need to be connected. But that is difficult, given the size and complicated structure of the system. In the new approach, a single circuit plays the role of many such systems. In other types of quantum computers, including those using superconducting circuits, some are capable of handling up to dozens of qubits, or quantum bits, the basic unit of information in quantum computing. Furusawas new approach will allow a single circuit to process more than 1 million qubits theoretically, his team said in a press release, calling it an ultimate quantum computing method. Researchers theoretically showed that their quantum computation scheme using measurement-induced CV gates in a loop-based architecture provides the universal gate set for both qubits and CVs. This architecture offers electrical programmability of gate sequence and higher scalability, and also enables fault-tolerant quantum computation with logical qubits redundantly encoded in a large Hilbert space. Experimental viability. They consider the feasibility of their architecture with current technology. Measurement-induced squeezing gates in our architecture was previously demonstrated for pulsed input states. Although the measurement-induced cubic phase gate has not been demonstrated yet, recent progress in ancilla preparation makes its implementation within reach of current technology. Conversion of these gates into the loop architecture requires long (10 meter) and low-loss optical delay lines. Such delay lines have been developed in free-space or by using optical fibers in several experiments. In addition, the viability of loop-based beam splitter operation has been recently demonstrated in several experiments, such as quantum walk and boson sampling. These experiments demonstrate that fast dynamic control of optical switches and beam splitter transmissivity is possible while preserving the coherence of quantum states. The demonstrations described above show that all of the basic building blocks of their architecture are already available. Abstract We propose a scalable scheme for optical quantum computing using measurement-induced continuous-variable quantum gates in a loop-based architecture. Here, time-bin-encoded quantum information in a single spatial mode is deterministically processed in a nested loop by an electrically programmable gate sequence. This architecture can process any input state and an arbitrary number of modes with almost minimum resources, and offers a universal gate set for both qubits and continuous variables. Furthermore, quantum computing can be performed fault tolerantly by a known scheme for encoding a qubit in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space of a single light mode. A team of researchers from the UK and Russia have successfully demonstrated that a type of magic dust which combines light and matter can be used to solve complex problems and could eventually surpass the capabilities of even the most powerful supercomputers. The researchers, from Cambridge, Southampton and Cardiff Universities in the UK and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Russia, have used quantum particles known as polaritons which are half light and half matter to act as a type of beacon showing the way to the simplest solution to complex problems. This entirely new design could form the basis of a new type of computer that can solve problems that are currently unsolvable, in diverse fields such as biology, finance or space travel. The results are reported in the journal Nature Materials. Our technological progress from modelling protein folding and behaviour of financial markets to devising new materials and sending fully automated missions into deep space depends on our ability to find the optimal solution of a mathematical formulation of a problem: the absolute minimum number of steps that it takes to solve that problem. The search for an optimal solution is analogous to looking for the lowest point in a mountainous terrain with many valleys, trenches, and drops. A hiker may go downhill and think that they have reached the lowest point of the entire landscape, but there may be a deeper drop just behind the next mountain. Such a search may seem daunting in natural terrain, but imagine its complexity in high-dimensional space. This is exactly the problem to tackle when the objective function to minimise represents a real-life problem with many unknowns, parameters, and constraints, said Professor Natalia Berloff of Cambridges Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, and the papers first author. Modern supercomputers can only deal with a small subset of such problems when the dimension of the function to be minimised is small or when the underlying structure of the problem allows it to find the optimal solution quickly even for a function of large dimensionality. Even a hypothetical quantum computer, if realised, offers at best the quadratic speed-up for the brute-force search for the global minimum. Berloff and her colleagues approached the problem from an unexpected angle: What if instead of moving along the mountainous terrain in search of the lowest point, one fills the landscape with a magical dust that only shines at the deepest level, becoming an easily detectible marker of the solution? A few years ago our purely theoretical proposal on how to do this was rejected by three scientific journals, said Berloff. One referee said, Who would be crazy enough to try to implement this?! So we had to do it ourselves, and now weve proved our proposal with experimental data. Their magic dust polaritons are created by shining a laser at stacked layers of selected atoms such as gallium, arsenic, indium, and aluminium. The electrons in these layers absorb and emit light of a specific colour. Polaritons are ten thousand times lighter than electrons and may achieve sufficient densities to form a new state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, where the quantum phases of polaritons synchronise and create a single macroscopic quantum object that can be detected through photoluminescence measurements. The next question the researchers had to address was how to create a potential landscape that corresponds to the function to be minimised and to force polaritons to condense at its lowest point. To do this, the group focused on a particular type of optimisation problem, but a type that is general enough so that any other hard problem can be related to it, namely minimisation of the XY model which is one of the most fundamental models of statistical mechanics. The authors have shown that they can create polaritons at vertices of an arbitrary graph: as polaritons condense, the quantum phases of polaritons arrange themselves in a configuration that correspond to the absolute minimum of the objective function. We are just at the beginning of exploring the potential of polariton graphs for solving complex problems, said co-author Professor Pavlos Lagoudakis, Head of the Hybrid Photonics Lab at the University of Southampton and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, where the experiments were performed. We are currently scaling up our device to hundreds of nodes, while testing its fundamental computational power. The ultimate goal is a microchip quantum simulator operating at ambient conditions. Nature Materials Realizing the classical XY Hamiltonian in polariton simulators Abstract The vast majority of real-life optimization problems with a large number of degrees of freedom are intractable by classical computers, since their complexity grows exponentially fast with the number of variables. Many of these problems can be mapped into classical spin models, such as the Ising, the XY or the Heisenberg models, so that optimization problems are reduced to finding the global minimum of spin models. Here, we propose and investigate the potential of polariton graphs as an efficient analogue simulator for finding the global minimum of the XY model. By imprinting polariton condensate lattices of bespoke geometries we show that we can engineer various coupling strengths between the lattice sites and read out the result of the global minimization through the relative phases. Besides solving optimization problems, polariton graphs can simulate a large variety of systems undergoing the U(1) symmetry-breaking transition. We realize various magnetic phases, such as ferromagnetic, anti-ferromagnetic, and frustrated spin configurations on a linear chain, the unit cells of square and triangular lattices, a disordered graph, and demonstrate the potential for size scalability on an extended square lattice of 45 coherently coupled polariton condensates. Our results provide a route to study unconventional superfluids, spin liquids, BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless phase transition, and classical magnetism, among the many systems that are described by the XY Hamiltonian. You are clearly a super-user of NUVO.net. Thats a good thing. It means you depend on independent and local news sources to keep you informed. You are a smart person. Coincidentally, independent and local news sources depend on you too. Youve read 25 articles this month and now, wed like you to be join our mission and become a NUVO Supporter. For as little as $4 a month, you can keep us alive and fighting -- and can have unlimited access to the independent news that cant be found anywhere else. Mr. Tuzman assumed that he would be quickly extradited to the United States. But he soon found himself in a parallel universe, he said. In the beginning, every day I thought: Theyre going to let me out tomorrow. They have to realize this is a mistake. But weeks went by. His lawyers asked the United States Embassy to step in, warning that he could be abused or killed. When Mr. Tuzmans lawyers recommended that he be released into the custody of a United States official and brought home where he could be rearrested, the United States authorities said their hands were tied by legal protocol. That October, he said, he was raped. Within an hour, he told his lawyer, Amanda Blaurock of Pedley & Blaurock, about it during an in-person meeting. She then went to the United States Embassy. When the Mr. Tuzmans imprisonment in Colombia was finally brought to the attention of a federal judge, Paul G. Gardephe, in the Southern District of New York, Judge Gardephe said he was shocked by the governments unwillingness to step in. There is credible evidence here that this man is undergoing significant abuse, to the point that there is reason to be concerned about his life, the judge said. He also challenged the government to tell me face to face they cant do anything about the conditions this man is in, and that if he has to stay there for nine months, there is nothing they can do about that. Judge Gardephe lashed out at the prosecutors who recommended that, as an alternative to bringing Mr. Tuzman home, they could help him be moved to another prison, known as Combita. Having sentenced numerous Colombian defendants in this courtroom, and having heard over and over again about the conditions that they were in during the period of time that they were awaiting extradition at Combita, the judge said, its shocking to me that the governments solution to the problem would be to transfer him to Combita. Its shocking to me. MILAN It was 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, the Bottega Veneta show was about to start, and Francois-Henri Pinault, chief executive of Kering, the French conglomerate that owns the Italian brand, was het up. Were the models late? Had some clothes not arrived? Did he oops not like what he saw? Nope. His morning had been ruined because of the news that the Trump administration was changing the federal governments policy on sexual assault on campus, potentially allowing colleges to raise the standard of proof required, a decision widely seen as altering the balance of power toward the colleges and away from the victims. A New Jersey man who won $338 million in the Powerball lottery four years ago was released from jail on Monday while he awaits trial on charges of sexually abusing a young girl. The man, Pedro Quezada, turned himself in to the authorities in Passaic County, N.J., last week after a 20-year-old woman said he had repeatedly molested her when she was between 11 and 14. Prosecutors charged Mr. Quezada, 49, with multiple counts of felony sexual assault. At a court hearing on Monday, a judge allowed him to go free pending trial but required Mr. Quezada to wear an ankle monitor and limited his travel outside his house. Steven Wukovits, a lawyer who is representing him, said that Mr. Quezada was innocent and that the woman had fabricated the allegations to try to claim some of his lottery winnings. She is only the latest person to try to take advantage of Mr. Quezada after he won, Mr. Wukovits said. The list is almost identical to the ban issued in January all are Muslim-majority countries with the exception of two additions, North Korea and Venezuela, both of which look a lot like window dressing. Annual visa grants to North Koreans number in the dozens, while the ban in Venezuela applies only to officials from the government of the Trump nemesis Nicolas Maduro, along with their family members. Meanwhile, no citizen from the barred countries has carried out a fatal terrorist attack in the United States in the past two decades. Thats in part because the extreme vetting that Mr. Trump and his anti-immigration cabal have been hawking was already the law of the land. The United States subjects visa applicants to some of the most thorough and rigorous scrutiny in the world. The risk of a terrorist attack by a foreign-born visitor who could be stopped by these procedures is minuscule. As one federal appeals court said in blocking the earlier ban, the administration has presented no evidence that present vetting standards are inadequate, and no finding that absent the improved vetting procedures there likely will be harm to our national interests. The new restrictions have, were told, been informed by rational, evidence-based concerns about countries whose vetting procedures pose a true security threat to the United States. That might be enough for the ban to be upheld by the federal courts, which are as a rule very deferential to presidential actions on immigration and national security. (On Monday, the Supreme Court, which was slated to hear challenges to the second ban on Oct. 10, removed the case from its calendar and ordered the parties to submit briefs on whether the new ban makes the case moot.) But considered in the broader context of Mr. Trumps own remarks most recently, his call for a far larger, tougher and more specific travel ban its hard to see how this latest version breaks much new ground. This shows why it is so damaging to have a fundamentally untrustworthy commander in chief. All presidents must make hard choices about security, and all administrations have faced the intransigence or incompetence of foreign governments when it comes to fighting terrorism. But when the president has freely spouted his own longstanding animus toward adherents of one of the worlds major religions, his actions which include, in addition to the travel ban, a pervasive hostility toward immigration must be evaluated against that backdrop. Hurricane Maria was the most powerful storm to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years. It left the entire island without electricity, which may take six months to restore. It toppled trees, shattered windows, tore off roofs and turned streets into rivers throughout the island. President Trump declared that Puerto Rico was absolutely obliterated and issued a federal disaster declaration. But the United States needs to do more. It needs to suspend the Jones Act in Puerto Rico. After World War I, America was worried about German U-boats, which had sunk nearly 5,000 ships during the war. Congress enacted the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, a.k.a. the Jones Act, to ensure that the country maintained a shipbuilding industry and seafaring labor force. Section 27 of this law decreed that only American ships could carry goods and passengers from one United States port to another. In addition, every ship must be built, crewed and owned by American citizens. Almost a century later, there are no U-boats lurking off the coast of Puerto Rico. The Jones Act has outlived its original intent, yet it is strangling the islands economy. Before long, the mission broadened to include advocacy. Members would stick fliers on the windshields of cars parked at a church during Mass warning that an abusive priest was inside. Victims stood outside cathedrals and even on St. Peters Square at the Vatican holding photographs of themselves as children when they were first molested. Ms. Blaine told her story to the local news media in Toledo, and her abuser was removed from ministry after more of his victims came forward. She received a settlement from the church. She wasnt trying to change the world; she was trying to heal herself, said Barbara Dorris, the managing director of the Survivors Network and an early participant in the group. She was trying to work within the church, but Barbara couldnt because the systems failed her and her perpetrator was still out there. She felt, like every victim feels, that theres this responsibility to speak up before what happened to you happens to someone else. In 2002, after a vast cover-up of abusive priests in Boston was revealed by The Boston Globe, and after similar accounts emerged across the country, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops asked Ms. Blaine and Mr. Clohessy to address them at a pivotal meeting in Dallas. American bishops eventually adopted a zero-tolerance policy and pledged to remove priests credibly accused of abuse. But since then SNAP has often accused bishops of failing to keep these promises, and the group continues to be seen by the church as an adversarial force. Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta, who was president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops at the height of the scandal in 2002, recalled on Monday that he had first met Ms. Blaine when he was an auxiliary bishop in Chicago. He had helped her obtain a closed church to use as a Catholic Worker house. She was a woman of faith; may God be merciful to her, Archbishop Gregory said. Besides her husband, Ms. Blaine is survived by her stepsons, Brett and Joshua Rubin; two step-grandsons; three brothers; and four sisters, one of them her twin. WASHINGTON After months of quietly urging the Trump administration to preserve the Iran nuclear deal, European diplomats have begun an aggressive defense of it, warning of serious consequences if the United States ignores their concerns. President Trump denounced the nuclear agreement in a speech to the United Nations last week as an embarrassment to the United States. But he said later that his real goal is not to scrap the deal right away but to enlist the European allies who were also signatories of the 2015 agreement in an effort toughen its provisions. Responding to his speech, Federica Mogherini, the European Unions foreign policy chief, said there was no need to reopen the agreement because its fully delivering. And she expressed the near-disbelief among European officials that Mr. Trump might walk away from the Iran accord while trying to resolve an escalating crisis involving North Koreas nuclear and missile programs. We already have one potential nuclear crisis, she said. We definitely do not need to go into a second one. WASHINGTON At least six of President Trumps closest advisers occasionally used private email addresses to discuss White House matters, current and former officials said on Monday. The disclosures came a day after news surfaced that Jared Kushner, the presidents son-in-law and adviser, used a private email account to send or receive about 100 work-related emails during the administrations first seven months. But Mr. Kushner was not alone. Stephen K. Bannon, the former chief White House strategist, and Reince Priebus, the former chief of staff, also occasionally used private email addresses. Other advisers, including Gary D. Cohn and Stephen Miller, sent or received at least a few emails on personal accounts, officials said. Ivanka Trump, the presidents elder daughter, who is married to Mr. Kushner, used a private account when she acted as an unpaid adviser in the first months of the administration, Newsweek reported Monday. Administration officials acknowledged that she also occasionally did so when she formally became a White House adviser. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter with reporters. Officials are supposed to use government emails for their official duties so their conversations are available to the public and those conducting oversight. But it is not illegal for White House officials to use private email accounts as long as they forward work-related messages to their work accounts so they can be preserved. WASHINGTON Roger J. Stone Jr., a self-proclaimed political dirty trickster and an informal adviser to the president, will strongly deny to congressional investigators on Tuesday that he worked with Russians to aid President Trumps campaign. I do not engage in any illegal activities on behalf of my clients or the causes in which I support, Mr. Stone said in prepared remarks to the House Intelligence Committee, a copy of which was obtained Monday by The New York Times. There is one trick that is not in my bag, and that is treason. Mr. Stone is scheduled to be interviewed by the committee behind closed doors in its continuing investigation of Russian interference in last years presidential election. His prepared remarks amount to a combative and meandering defense, complete with exhibits intended to bolster his case a touch more fitting to a courtroom than a closed-door interview with investigators. Though the opening statement presents little new information from Mr. Stone, who has for months caustically denied any involvement in the election meddling, it comes with added weight: Lying to Congress is a crime. WASHINGTON Republicans are unifying behind an aggressive tax code rewrite with a single, overarching goal: How low can they go? Party leaders on Monday said they were coalescing around a plan that could slash corporate taxes to 20 percent from 35 percent, double the standard deduction for individual taxpayers and cut taxes on sole proprietorships, among other changes. President Trump, however, continues to insist the corporate tax rate be decreased even further, to 15 percent. We are continuing to drive the rate down as low as possible, Representative Kevin Brady of Texas, the Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said at a briefing with reporters on Monday. My prediction is that the framework will deliver the lowest tax rates on businesses in modern history. The big question is how they will pay for it. The Trump administration and Republican leaders in Congress are expected to release a unified framework for a tax code rewrite on Wednesday, kick-starting a scramble to enact legislation by years end. Republicans have said eliminating corporate tax loopholes, combined with a surge of economic growth from the tax cuts, will offset lost government revenue. Last week, members of the Senate Budget Committee agreed on a framework that would add to the federal deficit to pave the way for a $1.5 trillion tax cut over a decade. Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. The island has no electricity, and may not for months to come. Much of the water is undrinkable. About 80 percent of crop value is gone, a loss of $780 million. More than 3.4 million people live in Puerto Rico, yet the political and popular response to the catastrophe has been far more muted than the response to the devastation in Houston from Hurricane Harvey or that in Florida from Hurricane Irma. This may be because, according to a new poll, only a slim majority of Americans realize Puerto Ricans are Americans, too. Here are answers to some questions you might have about Puerto Ricos place in the United States. Are Puerto Ricans American citizens? Yes. Under Section 302 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, people born in Puerto Rico have the same birthright American citizenship as people born in the 50 states. (Puerto Ricans born from April 11, 1899, to Jan. 13, 1941, became citizens when the act was passed.) Gov. Ricardo A. Rossello of Puerto Rico emphasized this on Monday, pleading for federal aid. Puerto Rico, which is part of the United States, can turn into a humanitarian crisis, he said. To avoid that, recognize that we Puerto Ricans are American citizens. When we speak of a catastrophe, everyone must be treated equally. SAN JUAN, P.R. Gov. Ricardo A. Rossello of Puerto Rico said on Monday that the island was on the brink of a humanitarian crisis nearly a week after Hurricane Maria knocked out its power and most of its water, and left residents waiting in excruciating lines for fuel. He called on Congress to prevent a deepening disaster. Stressing that Puerto Rico, a United States commonwealth, deserved the same treatment as hurricane-ravaged states, the governor urged Republican leaders and the federal government to move swiftly to send more money, supplies and relief workers. It was a plea echoed by Puerto Ricos allies in Congress, who are pushing for quick movement on a new relief bill and a loosening of financial debt obligations for the island, which is still reeling from a corrosive economic crisis. Puerto Rico, which is part of the United States, can turn into a humanitarian crisis, Governor Rossello said. To avoid that, recognize that we Puerto Ricans are American citizens; when we speak of a catastrophe, everyone must be treated equally. And Mr. Rossello did not mince words about the potential impact on the mainland, where Puerto Ricans are expected to arrive in droves to escape the post-Maria hardships they will face on the island, including a shortage of already hard-to-find jobs. Luckily, every office has its own underdog or pecked hen. They usually gravitated to me as a kindred spirit, taking me aside to calm me down or nip out for a cigarette. I remember on one occasion catching the girl who sat next to me glancing at my computer screen to see what I was working on. But she held the glance for about 10 seconds, which seemed like a really long time, more like an intrusive stare. I got very upset and sent a strongly worded email to the company manager, with a few line managers ccd for good measure. The email was so strongly worded that my colleague had tears in her eyes when she was called in about it and was granted permission to leave work for the day. She even brought some chocolate to say sorry to me and mentioned more than once that she was Christian. Once I left that job she unfriended me on Facebook, on my birthday. Even though by that point she knew I had mental health problems. When I got my dream job as a fashion writer in London, at a very decent salary, the flights of ideas that are part of my illness, compounded by the restlessness brought on by my medications, sabotaged my success. Id been there for two weeks when I asked if it was possible I could take a six-month leave to work as a trainee reporter at a local newspaper in Hawaii. That wasnt allowed, but two weeks later I took three days of holiday and a weekend away to travel to Paris to write a deodorant review for a small, independent magazine. I took another week off soon after to host writing workshops for people with disabilities. My boss was very understanding, and I did last in that job for 18 months but ended up resigning to be closer to my mother, who was having health problems. My office goodbye card was memorable: Even though I hadnt told many people about my condition, all the notes went along the lines of Ill miss the madness. An important lesson I have learned by overcoming adversity in the workplace and learning to live with mental illness is that we can build castles with the stones that life throws at us. I now work from home as a freelance writer, at hours to suit, which allows me the flexibility to get the regular therapy sessions and medical checkups that I need. I mostly write about mental illness. I am also writing my first book, A Beginners Guide to Sanity, with a highly regarded professor of psychiatry. Basil Gogos, who painted penetrating and chilling color portraits of movie monsters like Dracula, the Wolf Man and the Phantom of the Opera, and imbued Frankensteins monster with notable compassion, died on Sept. 13 at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 88. Linda Touby, his wife and only immediate survivor, said the cause was probably a coronary. Mr. Gogos produced dozens of covers for the horror magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland over more than 20 years. Many looked as if Mr. Gogos had invited the monsters into his studio, where he meticulously lighted them and bathed them in brilliant hues. PARIS Cerebral. Formal. Rigorously patterned and structured. These are some ways to describe the choreography of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, who has been creating work to often-challenging scores since her first solo in 1980. But those descriptions dont suit A Love Supreme, a celebration of John Coltranes revered album that Ms. De Keersmaeker has choreographed with Salva Sanchis. For this piece, other descriptions apply: Ecstatic. Freewheeling. Improvisatory. When A Love Supreme had its premiere in 2005, it was the first time the Belgian-born Ms. De Keersmaeker, 57, had collaborated with another choreographer. It was also the first time improvisation had featured in her work. And while it wasnt her first foray into jazz music (Bitches Brew/Tacoma Narrows from 2003 is set to Miles Davis), she has tended to turn to great classical scores her most recent piece is set to Bachs suites for cello or to modernist or contemporary composers like Gerard Grisey and or Steve Reich, who is often associated with her work. A Love Supreme, which Ms. De Keersmaeker and Mr. Sanchis brought back this year, has changed. The work, coming to New York Live Arts on Wednesday, has a new opening section, performed in silence; revised choreography; and new costumes and lighting. But the original and unusual division of labor between the two choreographers has remained constant: Mr. Sanchis is responsible for the movement vocabulary and improvisational techniques; Ms. De Keersmaeker for the spatial patterning and overall composition. I wanted to create something uninhibited, spontaneous, in the same way that I started dancing, without a place to do it or the means of production, Ms. Ouizguen, 37, said, speaking in French in a telephone interview from Portland, Ore., where Corbeaux was being performed. The work has been all over the world, including the Marrakech Biennale, the Cour Carree at the Louvre and the Serpentine Pavilion in London. In each location, roughly half the women are locals, some professional dancers, others not. The Moroccan-born Ms. Ouizguen (pronounced WEEZ-gen), grew up in Marrakesh and danced from an early age, without any formal training. At 14, she started to give concert performances; she had a contract to perform every two weeks in her neighborhood. At 20, she began to create pieces that didnt necessarily please people, she said, without understanding that it was contemporary dance, which she had never seen. Her professional break came in 2006, when Jean-Paul Montanari, director of the Montpellier dance festival, commissioned two pieces after seeing a film of her work. Ms. Ouizguen said Corbeaux was not in any sense traditional, even if it referred to traditions. The inspiration for the piece, she said, was a specific gesture: the abrupt, thrown-back movement of the head, throat and neck that she had seen in ritual ceremonies in both Morocco and Senegal. I am interested in the richness of my culture, but this is not an archaeological work, she said. Nor, she said, did the womens black robes and head scarves refer to traditional Muslim female attire. The head scarves are very Mediterranean, not just Arab, she said. The costumes are all about focusing on the head and neck. The museum will finally have its first purpose-built space on the site of its current cramped home in a former bank building. Despite persistent doubts about the financial capacities of predominantly black boards, the Studio Museum has succeeded in raising 70 percent of the money for its building project, cementing the institutions stature as a model of how to develop racially diverse trustees, staff members and audiences. Ms. Goldens name, meanwhile, keeps coming up for top posts, like those at the Brooklyn Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the same time, Ms. Golden must defend the Studio Museums importance in an age when the work of African-American artists is increasingly making its way into mainstream institutions. She must find new ways to attract visitors when even major institutions on Manhattans Museum Mile are struggling to compete with digital media for patrons leisure time. And she needs to raise the rest of the money for a new building when many institutions are also trying to secure donations. Shes now considered a superstar in the art world, said Michael Govan, the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, who last year brought Ms. Golden onto his board. Some people have said, Mission accomplished; why do you need a big building? he added. Well, why does MoMA need a new building, why does the Whitney need a new building? Somehow the Studio Museum is supposed to stay in an unkempt, un-air-conditioned building. Why shouldnt they have the same institutional ambition? The Studio Museums dual identities as local community hub and an international champion of African-American artists and curators are evident at its overflow openings, like the one for this months emerging artists show Fictions, where the gallery owner Gavin Brown and the artist Marilyn Minter rubbed elbows with Jonelle Procope, the president and chief executive of the Apollo Theater, and Dr. Edgar Mandeville, an esteemed obstetrician at Harlem Hospital. As the ladys maid Anna Bates on Downton Abbey, Joanne Froggatt negotiated a series of increasingly horrific situations, from surreptitiously moving a dead houseguest to campaigning for her imprisoned husband to being raped by another lords valet. It was good practice for her current role in Liar, a six-part British mini-series beginning Wednesday on SundanceTV. She plays Laura, a schoolteacher who goes on a date with a charming, handsome doctor, Andrew (Ioan Gruffudd), and wakes up the next morning convinced shes been raped. He denies it, convincingly, and the usual array of smears alcohol, medication, past history is thrown at Laura. The audience is kept in doubt: someones lying, but who? Liar, created and written by the brothers Harry and Jack Williams, has another thing in common with Downton Abbey, beyond the presence of Ms. Froggatt. Both use serious business social history in Downton, violence toward women in Liar to dress up what is essentially well-made melodrama. The Turner Prize exhibition, which showcases the nominees for the British contemporary art award, opened Tuesday at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, northern England. On display are the works of the four shortlisted artists for the prestigious award: Hurvin Anderson, Andrea Buttner, Lubaina Himid and Rosalind Nashashibi. The artists on the shortlist come from international and multicultural backgrounds, making it one of the most diverse selections to date. This is also the first year since 1991 in which artists age 50 and older are eligible for the prize, and two nominees Mr. Anderson, 52, and Ms. Himid, 63 were made eligible by the lifting of the age limit. Mr. Anderson, the son of Jamaican immigrants, is known for his paintings of barbershops, some of which are included in the exhibition. He is also showing vibrant paintings of trees and foliage. In the annals of literary treachery, there is a special place reserved for David Plante and his memoir Difficult Women, a portrait of three of his friends (or so they believed): the novelist Jean Rhys; the feminist writer Germaine Greer; and Sonia Orwell, Georges widow, who presided, in her depressive fashion, over Londons bookish set in the 1970s. First published in 1983 (and now reissued), the book had its champions, notably the critic Vivian Gornick, but many were horrified, in particular by Plantes treatment of Rhys. Elderly, and fatally trusting, she is shown tottering around with her pink wig on backward, slugging gin and falling drunkenly into a toilet. Plante took faithful dictation as she carried on like a character out of her own novels, ranting and weeping, endlessly victimized but breezily indifferent to the suffering she inflicted. On the death of her newborn son: I wondered if it died while we were drinking champagne. Few writers have betrayed confidences with such uninhibited malice. Difficult Women is creepy, it is cruel, it is morally indefensible and it is exhilarating. As Dylan Thomas wrote: When one burns ones bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. There may be no defending these heartless portrayals, but theres also no denying their power. Each scene is expertly staged, and burns with the same dark excitement you find in Mary Gaitskills fiction or Harold Pinters plays, the feeling that these characters have sought one another out to exercise hidden fears and desires, to expose primal wounds. If youre in a city that is preparing for a weather-related emergency and are facing large price increases due to last-minute travel changes, the following may be effective: Li Hongjie, a retiree in Yanji, said that while China had prospered, the North had achieved little but building weapons. Now the whole world worries about what theyll do next, he said, especially us here in the northeast. I perceive this family saga, which unfolds as the viewer walks along the sidewalks of Greenwich Village, as a folk tale, comments curator Lydie Diakhate. I wanted to bring the viewer through the infinite circle of life, from birth to death. As you walk along 3rd Street or LaGuardia Place, the narrative flows back and forth through the 13 windows. However, each window can also be seen individually as one story. Almost four decades after Carlos and Claudes journey, they are bringing these archival images into the present moment, said Pamela Jean Tinnen, curator for Kimmel Galleries. Diakhate decided to avoid the idea of taking history as a nostalgic and frozen space and instead created for the viewer an atemporal space that allows for a new vision, which addresses the continuing dialogue about the principles of life, the effects of colonialism, and the ties of love and memory that bind between continents. The projects purpose is to invite the viewer to share what French philosopher Edouard Glissant called the emotions of the diversity of the world. In 1980, equipped with various cameras 35 mm, Polaroid and a Super 8mm Carlos de Jesus accompanied his friend Claude Oudey, who left his home in Paris, France and flew to Africa to meet his grandmother for the very first time. Many years before, a Frenchman arrived in her village of Aby to manage a French plantation. Claudes grandmother had two children by this man, a boy and a girl. When he left the country to return to France, this man took his daughter with him; she was two years old. Claudes grandmother his Nana had no news of her child for many years, until her grandson resolved to bring his mother back to her birthplace, to find her family and to renew contact with the everyday life of her natal village. This project was supported by grants from: The New York University Arts Council; the NYU Tisch Initiative for Creative Research; the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; and Michael S. DiLonardo, DDS. Special Thanks: Professor Shelley Rice, for planting the seed. For all press and sales inquiries, please contact Ms. Tinnen: Pamela.Jean.Tinnen@nyu.edu or 212.998.4950. About the Kimmel Galleries: Established in 2003, Kimmel Galleries are dedicated to providing visually dynamic and thought provoking exhibitions. They are free and open to the public. For more information on tours, the artists or price inquiries, please contact the Curator, Pamela Jean Tinnen, at 212 298 4950 , or pamela.jean.tinnen@nyu.edu. Past exhibitions include: Patterns of Interest: photography by Stephen Mallon; HOUSE: HOME; Field Season: records, wandering perspectives, side notes, a selection of photographs from Abydos, by Greg Maka, Amanda Kirkpatrick and Gus Gusciora; Preconceived Notions; and Perspectives: A photography exhibit about traveling and living in our world; DITTO: WORKS IN BLUE, Shira Toren, among others. Amidst Rohingya crisis, centre reviews free movement regime with Myanmar India oi-Vicky By Vicky The free movement regime, a bi-lateral agreement between Indian and Myanmar is under review in the wake of the Rohingya Muslim crisis. This agreement allows free movement of Indian and Myanmarese citizens within 16 kilometres of the border. This has on several occasions been exploited by terrorists and smugglers. To review the situation, the Home Ministry sent two of its senior officials to four states along the Indo-Myanmar border. Special secretary (internal security) Rina Mitra and joint secretary (northeast), Satyendra Gard met with senior officials of the four states where the regime is in force. India has a 1,643-km border with Myanmar and it is unique in many ways as it has a visa-free movement regime for people living within 16 km on either side of the border. They can stay up to 72 hours with effective and valid permits issued by the designated authorities on either side. This regime has been in place keeping in view the traditional social relations among the border people. It helps genuine people living in close proximity of the border. "However, it is misused by militants and criminals who smuggle weapons, narcotics, contraband goods and Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN)," Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said. OneIndia News For Breaking News and Instant Updates Allow Notifications Story first published: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 7:16 [IST] Andhra bureaucrat with Rs 500 crore disproportionate assets arrested three days before retirement India oi-Anusha Recommended Video Andhra Bureaucrat arrested for Rs 500 cr disproportionate assets | Oneindia News The Andhra Pradesh anti-corruption bureau officials arrested a senior bureaucrat for allegedly amassing Rs 500 crore disproportionate assets. Golla Venkata Raghurami Reddy who was set to retire in three days was arrested after raids were conducted at properties belonging to him in Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Tirupati, and Maharashtra's Shirdi. Reddy, director of state town planning in municipal administration department, was to retire on Wednesday and had already planned to throw a huge party abroad. After conducting raids 15 places belonging to the officer, the ACB sleuths arrested him. The government official, it was learned during the raids, also owns a hotel, Sai Suraj Kunj, in Shirdi. 300 acres of valuable land in Gannavaram near Vijayawada belongs to him among other properties. ACB officers also found Rs 50 lakh in cash at Reddy's residence. Raids were also conducted at properties belonging to the official's kin and friends. The officials are continuing with the raids for the second day on Tuesday. The estimated value of assets unearthed only on Monday is pegged at Rs 500 crore, according to ACB officials. Officials are yet to identify and open bank lockers belonging to the official. "Reddy has been arrested under the Prevention of Corruption Act. He is accused of possessing assets disproportionate to his income, which is around Rs 1 lakh per month," said RP Thakur, Director General, ACB. 15 teams of the ACB carried out search operations in two states since Monday morning. Officials who carried out raids in Vijayawada claimed that huge amounts of gold and diamonds were stashed in electronics like washing machines. OneIndia News At BHU, what does Lanketing stand for India oi-Vicky By Vicky Recommended Video BHU Harassment case : What does term Lanketing means 4-'Lanketing' is a term that anyone who has studied at the Banaras Hindu University would know. The BHU has been in the news for the past couple of days. The vice-chancellor has justified the curbs imposed on the women students saying that it was done keeping their safety in mind. However the students have complained that the curbs make no sense since they have been harassed outside their residence halls as well. With the rise in the number of such complaints, it would be interesting to take a look at what 'Lanketing' means. Today the term broadly means harassment. However when the word was coined it was not supposed to mean that. The term is derived from the name a market near BHU's Singh Dwar gate. The Lanka Market has a lot of cafes and restaurants and are frequented by students. Many complain that there are several local youth who land up and are seen loitering around in their bikes and very often harassing women. While today 'Lanketing' means harassment, it meant something else when it was coined. Those who have studied at this university several years back say at that time, 'Lanketing' meant going to Lanka Market to shop or to eat. OneIndia News For Breaking News and Instant Updates Allow Notifications Story first published: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 11:08 [IST] What GST has got to do with Kautilya, globalisation with Manu? A lot for BHU Varanasi: Student shot at in BHU, condition said to be critical BHU violence: NHRC issues notices to UP govt, VC over eve-teasing complaint India oi-Deepika By Deepika The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh government and BHU Vice-Chancellor on inaction over eve-teasing complaint and harsh police action against students. In a statement to the media, the NHRC said: "Suo motu cognizance taken in subsequent use of unwarranted manhandling and thrashing of agitating students, mostly women, by UP police. Notices issued to Chief Secy, DGP UP and BHU VC calling for a detailed report in the matter. The response is expected within 4 weeks." The development comes hours after the Uttar Pradesh government ordered a judicial inquiry into the violence on the campus. A number of students were hurt when clashes broke out between the police and students of BHU after the students started protesting against alleged molestation of a girl. The students alleged that the police thrashed them and dragged them by the hair, but DM Varanasi, who was present on the spot, denied all such claims. OneIndia News For Breaking News and Instant Updates Allow Notifications Story first published: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 21:25 [IST] BHU violence: Uttar Pradesh government orders judicial inquiry India oi-Anusha The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has ordered a judicial inquiry into violence on the campus of Banaras Hindu University (BHU). Srikant Sharma, the spokesperson for the government confirmed the development on Tuesday. An inquiry committee headed by Justice VK Dikshit of Allahabad High court will probe the matter. "The inquiry commission has been formed. Action will be taken based on the recommendations of the committee, said BHU VC Girish Chandra Tripathi. Meanwhile, the Station House Officer of Lanka Chowk police station has been suspended for ordering lathi-charge on students. The Yogi government, as well as the BHU administration, had come under massive fire for the brutal use of force against protesting girl students. At BHU, what does 'Lanketing' stand for Recommended Video BHU violence: Congress demands sacking of BHU VC GC Tripathi | Oneindia News The probe has been ordered after BHU vice-chancellor G C Tripathi sought a judicial inquiry into the events within the varsity between September 21 and 23. The government is yet to name those who will lead the probe into the matter that has come as a massive embarrassment to the BJP government, both, at the state and the center. The police have already registered an FIR against 1,000 unidentified students of the university for allegedly indulging in violence. While the VC denied any lathi-charge on students and continued to make insensitive remarks about allegations of molestation on the campus, Varanasi DC's report nailed the administration. Varanasi Divisional Commissioner Nitin Gokarn on Tuesday held Banaras Hindu University (BHU) administration responsible for the violence that was witnessed. In a preliminary report submitted to Chief Secretary Rajiv Kumar, the officer said that the university administration did not deal with the complaint filed by the victim in a sensitive manner. It added that the administration failed to handle the situation on time. OneIndia News On camera: Varanasi folks in panic as 'ghost in white' goes for a walk on rooftops Varanasi to light up for Deep Deepavali, a festival of lights that is not Diwali BHU violence: Varanasi police submits preliminary report, blames varsity administration India oi-Madhuri Varanasi Commissioner Nitin Gokarn on Tuesday submitted preliminary report to Chief Secy Rajiv Kumar in connection with Banaras Hindu University violence. The reports blamed University administration for not dealing the issue in a serious manner. In the report to Chief Secy, it says that BHU did not deal with victim complaint in sensitive manner and nor handled situation on time. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah had spoken to UP Chief Minister Yogi Aditynanath following a police lathi-charge on BHU students and asked him to redress the issue at the earliest. Trouble started in BHU on the night of September 21 when students of a girls' hostel sat on protest following the alleged sexual harassment of a student of visual arts near Bharat Kala Bhawan. The girl said she was harassed by three boys on a motorcycle while returning to her hostel in Triveni complex. OneIndia News Mamata's party has replaced 'Rule of Law' by 'Rule by TMC law': Rijiju Check West Bengal Group D Result 2017 on wbgrdb.in India oi-Vicky By Vicky The West Bengal Group D Result 2017 has been declared. The results are available on the official website. The interviews would be held from October 16 2017 onwards. The OMR sheets of the candidates, who appeared in the West Bengal Group D written examination have been scanned and evaluated electronically, said a statement from the organisors. Approximately, three times the total number of 6000 Group D vacancies will be intimated for the interviews. The candidates who are selected after the West Bengal Group D written exam, on the basis of the provisional Merit list will be called for Interview in a phased manner. The West Bengal group D interviews are proposed to start from October 16, 2017, said a statement. The recruitment of group D employees is being organised in West Bengal after a long interval. The last Group D recruitment was done during the erstwhile Left Front regime. The results are available on wbgdrb.in. How to check West Bengal Group D Result 2017: Go to wbgdrb.in Click on the results tab Click on the link "Result of Gr. D Examination 2017" from that page Enter nine-digit application number and date of birth on the next page Submit the details and check your results Take a printout OneIndia News For Breaking News and Instant Updates Allow Notifications Story first published: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 7:39 [IST] D-Syndicate raises its ugly head again: This time on the target are Hindu leaders Dawood not only uses hawala, but Angadias too India oi-Vicky By Vicky The Thane police who are on a money trail have been told by Iqbal Kaskar that Dawood Ibrahim relies heavily on hawala and the Angadias to receive money. Kaskar, it may be recalled was arrested in connection with an extortion racket and the police believe that he was doing so at the behest of his brother. The revelation regarding the hawala channels and Angadias came to light when the police seized a diary. There were several entries in the diary pointing towards the hawala network and the Angadias. Who are the Angadias and how do they operate The Thane police will soon begin questioning the hawala operators and the Angadias. It would be a herculean task for the police as the hawala operators are spread across the country. The D-Company relies heavily on the hawala operators from Delhi and Gujarat. Recommended Video Dawood Ibrahim extortion racket: Role of Angadias, who are they | Oneindia News Most of the hawala operators to be summoned will be from these two places. With the money trail on the radar of the probe agencies, the police will also seek the help of the Enforcement Directorate and the Financial Intelligence Unit to crack the case. OneIndia News Najar, most dreaded terrorist in Kashmirs history killed India oi-Vicky By Vicky Dreaded Grade A A terrorists Abdul Qayoom Najar was shot dead at Uri by the security agencies. He was killed while he was returning from Pakistan. This is a major success for the Indian Army since he has been on the most wanted list for over two years now. He was involved in a series of attacks including the ones on mobile towers. He had broken away from the Hizbul Mujahideen and formed the Lashkar-e-Islam. Najar was expelled by Hizbul chief Syed Salahuddin blaming him in playing a key role in murdering innocent persons and indulging in character assassination of Hurriyat leaders and attacks on the telecommunication set-up in the Valley. For years Najar, one of the most wanted militants of North Kashmir had kept the police and the army on toes. Najar came to the limelight after the attacks on mobile towers and killings of six civilians in Sopore and its adjacent villages. Though the Hizbul Mujahideen had been blaming the Indian agencies for these attacks, police officials were convinced that these killings and attacks are the handiwork of Najar and his associate Imtiyaz Kundoo. The police had announced a reward of rupees 10 lakhs for information leading to the arrest of Najar. Najar, the longest surviving militant, was one of the top commanders of Hizbul Mujahideen. A resident of Sopore town, he joined militancy barely at an age of 16. He was arrested in 1992 and later released. After his release, Najar recycled into the militancy in 1995. Though for many years, Najar was a militant, but he always aspired to become a top commander after killing and arrest of top Hizbul commanders, Najar was the senior most active commander and thus the de-facto operational chief of Hizbul Mujahideen. OneIndia News Drug mafia after me says Honeypreet Insan: HC reserves verdict on anticipatory bail plea India oi-Vicky By Vicky Recommended Video Honeypreet Insan claims that drug mafia is after her life | Oneindia News Honeypreet Insan has claimed that the drug mafia is after her. He says that she is under threat from drug syndicates in Haryana and Punjab. The submission was made in her anticipatory bail plea which was reserved for orders by the Delhi High Court. She further said that she is a single woman and has clean antecedents. I am a law abiding citizen and will join the investigation, she also said. She has been accused of inciting the violence following the conviction of Gurmeet Ram Rahim. He was sentenced to 20 years in jail by the special CBI court. A court in Panchkula had issued arrest warrants against Honeypreet and two other members of the Dera Sacha Sauda. In another development, Ram Rahim on Monday moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court challenging the convictions he was awarded after being found guilty on two counts of rape. OneIndia News For Breaking News and Instant Updates Allow Notifications Story first published: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 15:43 [IST] Goa HC stays trial in Tarun Tejpal rape case, refuses to stop framing of charges India oi-Anusha The High Court of Bombay at Goa extended some relief to rape accused senior journalist Tarun Tejpal. The court has stopped the examination of the witness in the case till further directions but refused to stay framing of charges against Tejpal. Accused of sexually assaulting a junior colleague in 2013, Tejpal moved the High Court challenging the sessions court's directions of frame charges against him. The court had ordered framing of charges on September 28. He had also argued that the state had been delaying the case and even after three years was yet to hand over evidence. While the High Court stayed trial until further directions in the case, it refused to stop framing of charges. Upon agreement by both sides, the framing of charges against Tejpal will continue as scheduled on September 28. Tejpal's counsel, in his defense, claimed that he had been falsely accused of rape while the prosecution accused him of implementing delaying tactics. The court will now hear further arguments in the case of November 1. In November 2013, a journalist working in Tehelka had accused Tarun Tejpal, the magazine's founder and editor of sexual assault. The victim alleged that the incident took place in an elevator of a five-star hotel during a programme held in Goa. The victim first approached the organization with a complaint but quit within a month. Tejpal was arrested after a series of mails between him and managing editor Shoma Chaudhury were leaked. Tejpal is currently on bail and has sought an in-camera hearing of the case. OneIndia News For Breaking News and Instant Updates Allow Notifications Story first published: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 12:31 [IST] Halla bol, lungi khol": Ranchi civic body's mantra to stop open defecation for Swachh Bharat India oi-Oneindia By Oneindia Staff Writer The deadline to make urban areas open defecation free is just a week away and officials of Ranchi municipal corporation have decided to do everything it takes to stop the menace. Ranchi Municipal Corporation has resorted to naming and shaming those defecating in the open with an unabashed slogan, "Halla bol, lungi khol". Under this slogan, officials will simply take away the lungi (a cloth wrap popularly used in the region) of one defecating in the open and return it only after their apologize, pay a fine and pledge never to defecate in the open. The Civic body modified the slogan to "halla bol, khule mein shauch karne waale ko door le jaa ke chhod" on Monday. Officials held 10 people for defecating in the open on Sunday alone and forced them to surrender their lungis to the RMC enforcement teams. Their lungis were returned only after they pledged that they would not defecate in the open again. They were also made to pay a fine of Rs 100 each. On Monday officials picked up those defecating in the open and dropped them some kilometres away. They were forced to walk back home after taking the pledge to use toilets. Eight people wer made to walk for quite a distance so a message is sent across on Monday. Officials claim that the efforts are only to help people understand that defecating in the open could cause them embarrassment. In a quote to a newspaper, Jharkhand Urban Development Minister C P Singh, who is also the Ranchi MLA, said, "It is just a part of the entire exercise. We have constructed toilets. Water supply is being provided wherever required. We have to raise awareness". He is also quoted as stating that multiple drives and awareness campaigns have been taken up to stop people from defecating in the open. FInes have also been imposed and now officials are resorting to these measures. "This is not aimed at harassing people. The idea is to create some sort of deterrence," he said. The civic body has appointed 18 enforcement teams to carry out such drives. "The drive is part of a multi-pronged strategy to make people aware that they are not doing the right thing by defecating in the open. Public ostracism is often a good deterrence. The results show that these initiatives are helping to check the number of those who defecate in the open," Municipal Commissioner Shantanu Agrahari was quoted as saying. Not everyone is in agreement with the way the drive is taking shape. Ranchi's Mayor Asha Lakra has objected to the drive. She claimed that no formal orders were passed and suggested alternative ways to create awareness. While many houses are yet to have a toilet, the officials are enouraging people to use public toilets that have been built. Their focus is to achieve zero urban open defecation before the October 2 deadline. The people, however, believe that the drive is only a burden due to lack of public toilets. In some places, there are no toilets for men while in others, they are non-functional or non-usable. The raids are being conducted near slum areas where most residents are daily wagers, laborers, rickshaw-pullers, auto-rickshaw drivers and a fine of Rs 100 is a huge burden. According to municipal officials, a total of 31,559 toilets have been constructed as part of the ODF campaign. They assure that water facilites have also been made but people refuse to use the same. OneIndia News For Breaking News and Instant Updates Allow Notifications Story first published: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 13:34 [IST] How Beti Bachao campaign failed to live up to its claim in Modis home turf Varanasi India oi-Oneindia By Oneindia Staff Writer There is something about all the campaigns started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. With their catchy one-liners and tall claims, right from Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission), Make in India to Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (Save Girl Child, Educate Girl Child) movements, no former PM like Modi has probably ever launched so many flashy and equally relevant social and economic crusades with the intent of changing the very face of India. Over the years, all these campaigns have become synonymous with Modi as the PM has been relentlessly speaking about issues ranging from making India clean to saving India's daughters at various national and international platforms. One campaign which even Modi's detractors did not even dare to criticise is the Beti Bachao Beti Padho, since it has the power to uplift millions of Indian women and girls from the shackles of patriarchy, dominance, illiteracy, financial dependence, sexual abuse and every day struggles. But now as we look around us, the campaign (no doubt started with the right purpose of saving girl children who are still being killed in the foetus because of country's great obsession with male children and end large-scale illiteracy among girl children which have led to women's financial dependence on men) has lost its relevance in the political rhetoric. There are various estimates for female foeticide. One group says more than 10 million female foetuses may have been illegally aborted in India since 1990s, and 500,000 girls were being lost annually due to female foeticide. According to another study, an estimated 100,000 abortions every year continue to be performed in India solely because the foetus is female. As per the 2011 Census report, India has a literacy rate of 74.04 per cent. While the male literacy rate is 82.14 per cent, the female literacy rate is 65.46 per cent. All the figures related to female foeticide and women illiteracy highlight social and economic gaps between India's men and women. If India can substantially control female foeticide and female illiteracy, it would not only help more and more women to take over public spaces and assert their existence by achieving economic independence, but would also propel India's growth rate as an economic power in the world stage. Thus, women empowerment is not specifically a gender issue, but should be a national priority if India wants to rub its shoulders with powerful nations like the US, China, Japan and Germany. So, when we see a well-educated and brave woman like Varnika Kundu being stalked by Vikas Barala, the "goon-son" of Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Subhash Barala, and his friend Ashish Kumar or the beating of girl students by male police personnel at the prestigious Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Modi's constituency, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, as they "dared" to protest against eve-teasing in the campus, we can't help but see the farce nature of the campaign, Beti Bachao, which has become mere sloganeering for our politicians and is far away from being practiced at the ground level. According to reports, girl students have been frequently harassed within the precincts of the university since long. Moreover, the female students in the hostels of the BHU are subjected to internet and food ban (they are not allowed to eat non-vegetarian food) and early curfew timings. None of these restrictions are being imposed on male students of the university. It seems the university is a microcosm of 'modern' India, where men are pampered to the hilt and women are deprived of their basic rights and subjected to sexual harassment on a daily basis. When women students are subjected to injustices in a university in Modi's constituency, they become more glaring because if the home turf of the country's PM is not safe for women, then where does India's betis live without fear? Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has demanded an apology from Modi for police action against students in the BHU. The Congress VP said the PM should tender apology as the incident took place in his constituency, Varanasi. "The incident in the BHU is the BJP's version of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao. And, when they (girls) demand their rights, beat them up. This incident happened in the PM's constituency. Modiji should apologise to the students of the BHU and take immediate action," Rahul told reporters in Jamnagar, Gujarat, on Monday. Attaching a link to a video of woman students, who alleged they were beaten up by policemen, Rahul tweeted, "BJP version of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao in BHU". BJP version of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao in BHU https://t.co/2XWIG5CG2q Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) September 24, 2017 The criticism faced by the PM over the violence and insensitive treatment meted out to women students, who were protesting over a delicate issue like eve-teasing in the BHU, showcases the systematic failure of the BJP governments--both at the Centre and in the state--to provide free, fair and rightful place to women in India that takes great pride in big campaigns like, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao. OneIndia News Is Mukul Roy BJP bound? India oi-Vicky By Vicky Talk of Mukul Roy joining the BJP has surfaced yet again. Around two years back when the heat in the Saradha scam was high, there was talk that Roy would spill the beans on his colleagues in the Trinamool Congress and then join the BJP. Considering to be a genius when it came to getting work done, Roy's entry into the saffron party may benefit it in the forthcoming elections. The rumour mill is abuzz that Mukul Roy, senior TMC leader had spoken with senior BJP leaders in the past couple of days. The BJP has however denied that Roy had sent them any feelers to join the party. Some say Roy did try and get in touch with the senior BJP leaders, but the meeting did not happen. For the BJP, the only problem would be that Roy's name had surfaced in the Saradha scam. The BJP has gone to town with this case and hence any association direct of indirect at this juncture may not go down too well. A couple of months back, one BJP leader had told OneIndia, " If people from the TMC want to join the party, we welcome that, but no leader with a Saradha taint will be taken into the party. We have told our West Bengal unit to be extremely cautious on that front the leader also informed. OneIndia News For Breaking News and Instant Updates Allow Notifications Story first published: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 11:12 [IST] If Cong is elected in HP, decision on 1 lakh govt jobs, pension scheme in 1st cabinet meet: Rahul Its PM's constituency, he should apologise to girls, says Rahul on police action in BHU India oi-Oneindia By Oneindia Ahmedabad, Sep 26: On Monday, when Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi started his three-day tour of poll-bound Gujarat, the Gandhi scion criticised Narendra Modi government over the violence and police action against girl students at the well-known Banaras Hindu University (BHU), in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Rahul demanded an apology from Prime Minister Modi for police action against students at the BHU during a protest over an eve-teasing incident on Saturday. The Congress VP said the PM should tender apology as the incident took place in his constituency, Varanasi. "The incident at the BHU is the BJP's version of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao'. And, when they (girls) demand their rights, beat them up. This incident happened in the PM's constituency. Modiji should apologise to the students of the BHU and take immediate action," Rahul told reporters in Jamnagar. Earlier in the day, Rahul slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over police baton-charge on woman students through a tweet. Attaching a link to a video of woman students, who alleged they were beaten up by policemen, Rahul tweeted, "BJP version of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao in BHU". BJP version of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao in BHU https://t.co/2XWIG5CG2q Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) September 24, 2017 A number of students including women and two journalists were injured in a baton-charge after a protest on Saturday night against an alleged eve-teasing incident turned violent. Meanwhile, Modi and BJP president Amit Shah on Monday spoke to UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on the violence that has been condemned by students, activists and opposition parties. Two policemen and an officer have been removed in Varanasi, which is PM Modi's parliamentary constituency. OneIndia News J&K encounter: Infiltration bid foiled in Uri, 1 terrorist killed India oi-Madhuri One terrorist has been killed after the Indian army foiled an infiltration bid in general area Zorawar in Uri area of Kashmir on Tuesday. According to media reports, the Army also recovered one weapon. The operation which was launched on Sunday was resumed on Tuesday morning following reports that more militants were hiding in the area. According to Army official the area of operation was expanded to ensure that no militant get away from the security forces' cordon. Earlier on Monday, four Pakistani militants were killed in the gunbattle with security forces in Kalgai area of Uri. On September 18 last year, four terrorists stormed Army brigade headquarters in Uri, killing 19 soldiers. OneIndia News For Breaking News and Instant Updates Allow Notifications Story first published: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 8:10 [IST] Justice (retired) G Sivarajan commission submits report in Kerala Solar panel scam India oi-Anusha The commission headed by Justice (retired) G Sivarajan on Tuesday submitted its report in the high-profile multi-crore solar scam. One day before the deadline, the commission submitted its report to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The former judge was entrusted by the former United Democratic Front (UDF) government with the inquiry on October 23, 2013, after allegations of corruption in the multi-crore solar panel deal rocked the then Kerala government. While the report was to be submitted within three months of the allegations, the commission was given multiple extensions. Sources privy to the report were quoted by the regional media that the commission has not detected any losses to the exchequer. Congress leader and former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy's name cropped up in the multi-crore scam dealing a death blow to the image of his government. Chandy was questioned by the commission for 15 long hours at a stretch when he was the Chief Minister. Thereafter he has appeared more than half a dozen times to record statements. The commission has questioned Chandy for 53 hours in total. Justice Sivarajan commission was also the first to issue an arrest warrant. The commission sought accused, Sritha Nair's, arrest after she refused to depose. The commission has probed for four years with extensions of eight times. 353 sitting have been completed with 214 witnesses being questioned. Witness statements alone run up to 8,464 pages apart from documents pertaining to the deal that make up 972. The findings of G Sivarajan Commission hold political bearing and are important to decide the Congress' future in the state. In 2013, a solar energy company, Team Solar, later learned to be dubious, was accused of allegedly collecting advance amounts from large number of people and investors by offering to make them business partners, or in the guise of installing alternate sources of energy and failed to deliver the goods. The scam gained prominence after Oommen Chandy's name figured in it. OneIndia News For Breaking News and Instant Updates Allow Notifications Story first published: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 16:07 [IST] Mukul Roy's exit is neither a jolt or surprise for TMC, what does BJP stand to gain? India oi-Anusha Seven months after he was brought back to the party as its vice president with much fanfare, Mukul Roy- once Mamata Banerjee's right-hand man- announced his exit from the Trinamool Congress. The move, however, came as no surprise to the party and its leaders who, within hours, suspended him. While Roy has met leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party fuelling speculations of him joining the saffron party, what really does the BJP stand to gain? One of the founding members of the party, Roy is an electoral-strongman. Within the TMC it is a popular notion that if Mamata drew the crowds, Roy ensured they voted for her. In February when he made a comeback, Roy had famously said that his aim was to ensure that TMC sweeps the next assembly election with more than 250 seats. Months down the line, he is looking for a new political future, probably one with a saffron tinge to it. TMC leaders, including ministers, believe that Roy was a master of scientific rigging, a talent that has been used largely by CPI(M) to identify booths, blocks, and districts where there was a vote deficit. This talent perhaps is a loss for the TMC, however, the party seems unfazed. The possibility of Roy joining the BJP has also not come as a surprise to the TMC. Many leaders within the TMC had highlighted Roy's 'proximity' to the BJP since 2015. Roy's relationship with the party had been tumultuous since 2015 when he is said to have cooperated with the Central Bureau of Investigation probing the Saradha chit fund scam. Despite being accused in the Narada sting case, he has not faced arrest- unlike many of his party colleagues. For the TMC, Roy's exit was a foregone conclusion considering the many hints of rebellion that he had dropped- be it over Durga idol immersion or inclusivity of minorities in the state. Roy chose not to say much during his Monday press conference. "I have been forced to exit from the party," he told reporters assuring to reveal more after he resigns from the primary membership of the party. The TMC, on the other hand, accused Roy of indulging in 'anti-party activities' and suspended him before he put out his resignation. The BJP has worked its way to become the opposition in West Bengal. Its vote share has gradually grown in all recent elections. While the saffron party has a long way to go to even pose a challenge to Mamata Banerjee's presence, loss of a Roy for TMC is advantage BJP whether or not he chooses to join the party. Roy is a heavy weight that the BJP can use- if not in its favor- at least against Mamata. Roy's political acumen can flare anti-incumbency sentiment and resentment against Mamata Banerjee given the recent decisions her government has taken. In the Durga Puja idol immersion matter, Mamata has offered a delightful agenda to the BJP on a platter. The saffron party only needs to exploit the agenda but its Hindutva brand of politics may not strike a chord with Bengalis. This is probably the place for a local yet strong leader like Roy. While there is no clarity on whether Roy will join the BJP, his exit from the TMC is for now enough for the saffron party to gain more strenght. OneIndia News For Breaking News and Instant Updates Allow Notifications Story first published: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 11:51 [IST] No Indian troops contribution in Afghanistan, says Nirmala Sitharaman India pti-PTI New Delhi, Sep 26: India and the US discussed ways to deepen their defence ties along with key issues such as Afghanistan, where New Delhi has ruled out any troop contribution, and terrorism emanating from Pakistan. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her US counterpart James Mattis held comprehensive talks covering the entire gamut of the bilateral defence partnership. "The situation in our neighbourhood and the growing menace of cross-border terrorism were discussed in depth. There is growing convergence in the approaches of both our countries on this issue," Sitharaman said at a joint press conference. She said both sides recognise the importance of holding those who use terrorism as an instrument of state policy to account and to dismantle the infrastructure that supports terrorism. On his part, Mattis said there can be "no tolerance to terrorism safe havens". He also welcomed India's contribution in war-torn Afghanistan. India, one of the largest contributors in Afghanistan where it in involved in several development projects, however, has ruled out troops contribution amidst the US emphasis for a greater participation by the country in the conflict-ridden Islamic nation. "We have made it clear that there shall not be boots from India on the ground (Afghan)," Sitharaman said while responding to a query on whether India will contribute troops in Afghanistan. Sitharaman also said that Mattis has assured her that he will raise with Pakistan the issue of terrorism emanating from there. PTI How Zahran Hashim converted the radical Islamists of South into violent Jihadists A bayath, a massive suicide bombing, the Coimbatore blast was in the making for a year With another ISIS module busted, TN has become a paradise of Islamic Jihadists Ph.D student questioned by NIA in Kashmir terror funding case India oi-Vicky By Vicky The National Investigation Agency questioned two more high-profile persons in connection with the Kashmir terror funding case. The head of a Srinagar based traders' body and a Ph.D student were questioned by officials of the NIA. Yasin Khan of the Kashmir Traders and Marketing Federation and Aala Fazil, the Ph.D student were the ones to be questioned. Up next for questioning in the Kashmir terror funding case is Syed Ali Shah Geelani. The Hurriyat hawk is the centre piece of the probe being conducted by the National Investigation Agency. NIA sources say that Geelani was always on the radar, but before getting to the big-wig they wanted to set up a water tight case. The Kashmir traders' body had called for a strike on Monday to protest Khan's summoning. Sources said they will be questioned about alleged funding to various groups which pelted security forces with stones. Meanwhile, Kashmir Bar Association president Mian Qayoom is likely to be summoned again by the NIA, sources said. OneIndia News For Breaking News and Instant Updates Allow Notifications Story first published: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 11:20 [IST] Will Sasikala return to AIADMK: Certainly suggests this audio clip Sasikala visits Jayalalithaa's memorial in Marina beach; first since release from prison Jayalalithaa death probe: TN cabinet to decide on enquiry against Sasikala and others Sasikalas husband Natarajan health condition worsens India oi-Deepika By Deepika Recommended Video VK Sasikala's husband M Natarajan in critical condition | Oneindia News Health condition of M Natarajan - husband of jailed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala who has been admitted to Gleneagles Global Health City at Perumbakkam in Chennai remains critical. Natarajan, 74, has been undergoing treatment at the Global Hospitals for the past nine months. Maruthappa is suffering from various diseases of the liver along with lung congestion and Kidney failure. In a health bulletin, Gleneagles Global Health City said his condition remains critical and he was put on the ventilator. It said while he was receiving dialysis and liver failure, he was not on ventilator support and was awaiting the organs for a transplant. On February 5, he was brought to Apollo Hospitals on the Greams Road after reportedly complaining of breathing problems. He then moved to Global Hospital and has been under the care of liver transplant surgeon Dr Mohamed Rela. On September 10, the hospital said Natarajan had registered with the Tamil Nadu Organ Sharing Registry for deceased donor liver transplant. After being convicted in a corruption case by the Supreme Court, Sasikala is lodged in a Bengaluru jail. OneIndia News (with agency inputs) Its true that Rahul is a dynast but its wrong for Modi to liken him to Aurangzeb Shahzada Rahul starts debate on dynastic politics; BJP simply can't stop talking about it India oi-Oneindia By Oneindia Recommended Video Rahul's comment on dynastic politics; BJP debate on issue backfiring| Oneindia News New Delhi, Sep 26: Who says Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is politically "irrelevant"? Anything he says (even if that means quoting wrong facts and figures), not just social media, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) too simply can't stop talking about it even after the passage of several days. A case in point is Rahul's comment on prevalence of dynastic politics (of which Rahul himself is a part of and probably the most 'shining' example of it) in India. Since the time Rahul at an interaction with students at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States (US) said that "India is run by dynasts" recently, a debate has started back home about the prevalence of dynastic politics in the country. Probably, the entire issue on dynastic politics would not have become so big had Union minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani would have simply ignored what Rahul had said in the US. Since then, the BJP has been constantly lambasting Rahul over dynastic politics and in the process showed the saffron party's insecurity over the existence of the scion of Gandhi family in the space of Indian politics. The BJP's jittery over Rahul's comments especially on dynastic politics could not be missed as even party president Amit Shah decided to attack Rahul over it on two occasions (the most recent one was on Monday). Because of the BJP's obsession with the Gandhi family, it is Rahul who is getting the maximum publicity (remember, even bad publicity is good publicity). Responding to the question of whether the Congress was more associated with dynastic politics in the US, Rahul argued that India was being run by dynasties. "Most parties in India have that problem So...Mr. Akhilesh Yadav is a dynast. Mr. Stalin [son of M. Karunanidhi in the DMK] is a dynast... even Abhishek Bachchhan is a dynast. So that's how India runs. So don't get after me because that's how they India is run. By the way, last, I recall, Mr. Ambanis are running the business. That's also going on in Infosys. So that's what happens in India," he said as he listed several prominent Indians born into famous families. But, he said there were a large number of people in the Congress who were not from dynastic families. Immediately after the media reported about Rahul's address (after Berkeley address, Rahul addressed students at the Princeton University during his recent two-week US tour) , which also included criticism on the Narendra Modi government, Irani decided to carry out her 'surgical strike' against the Congress VP. Irani called Rahul a "failed dynast" and said Indian democracy runs on merit as is exemplified by the fact that the "Prime Minister, President, Vice President and even the BJP president aren't from political backgrounds". Not just that, PM Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President Venkaiah Naidu "all come from humble backgrounds". "It shows the failed strategy of Rahul. That he's going to an international stage to speak about his failed political journey in a country where people didn't accept him." As if Irani's scathing attack on Rahul was not enough, the BJP thought that the entire issue of dynastic politics could be used as a political "missile" to target the Congress again and again. Moreover, the BJP, including the PM, has always been critical about the Gandhi family and have called Rahul as a "shahzada" (prince) on several occasions. So after Irani, senior BJP leaders like Amit Shah, Arun Jaitley and VP Venkaiah Naidu too targeted Rahul for his take on India's so-called dynasty culture. Finance minister Jaitley said he was "embarrassed" listening to Rahul speaking about dynastic politics in India during an address in the US. Jaitley said some political parties think that being centered around dynasty is an asset, but in the long run it becomes a burden. "Mujhe sharam aayi jab Amreeka mein baith ke kaha gaya ki parivarvaad is desh ke svabhaav mein hai (I was embarrassed when someone sitting in America said that dynasty politics is endemic to India)," Jailtey told. Naidu, even after leaving the BJP to become the VP of the country and thus turning "apolitical", could not stop taking a dive into the debate over dynastic politics. The VP took a not-so-veiled dig at Rahul by making a rather poetic statement on the entire topic. "Dynasty and democracy can't go together. Dynasty is nasty but tasty to some people," Naidu said. The VP of India was quick to add: "(I am) not speaking about a party or person." On Monday, once again BJP president Shah decided to target Rahul and his dynastic politics. Shah slammed Congress VP on the issue of dynastic politics, saying BJP believes in the politics of performance, which aims at alleviating the suffering of the people and ensures their welfare though 'swachhta', poverty eradication, fighting graft and terror and ending caste and communal politics. Shah spoke against Rahul at the BJP national executive meet in the national capital, where he emphasised the "vision of New India" envisaged by Modi and exhorted the party workers to work towards achieving it in the next five years. Taking on Rahul, Shah said he had compromised the dignity of the nation by stating during his recent foreign visit that belonging to a dynasty is a must in Indian politics and alleging that the Indian economy is not doing well. Shah said the top constitutional posts - that of the president of India, the vice-president, the PM and the Lok Sabha speaker - are held by people who have risen from humble backgrounds through their performance, merit and hard work. Finding the BJP harping on the same subject, the Congress, which was quiet all these days in spite of repeated verbal assaults on Rahul, decided to attack the BJP on Monday, so that the issue remains "burning" to carry forward Rahul's publicity campaign. Hitting out at Shah over his criticism of Rahul on dynasty politics, the Congress on Monday said that the "BJP should look inwards as to who follows the practice". Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said: "Those who talk about dynasty, if they don't believe in dynasty then why are Prem Kumar Dhumal's son Anurag Thakur and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's son Dushyant Singh in Parliament? What are they doing in Lok Sabha? "Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh, against whom there are charges of PDS scam, what is his son doing in Parliament. Before pointing fingers at others, BJP president should look inwards," he added. Tewari lambasted the BJP for being selective in their approach. "They seem to suffer from permanent amnesia when it comes to their own corruption." Now, we know the BJP would not remain silent on Tewari's reply to Shah's criticism. Thus the BJP and the Congress will carry their tu tu main main over dynastic politics for another few months, till one more 'irrelevant' subject comes to the fore. Both the ruling and the main opposition parties hardly discuss about important issues like creation of jobs, downward spiral of economy, crisis in agriculture and women's security, to name a few, because in fighting over "irrelevant things" our political parties try to find their own "compatibility". OneIndia News State government should run from Gujarat and not Delhi, says Rahul Gandhi India pti-PTI Jamnagar (Gujarat), Sep 26: Eyeing the support of the influential Patel community, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi hit the campaign trail in the Patidar-dominated areas of poll-bound Gujarat. While addressing supporters in Gujarat, Rahul said that the Gujarat government should function from within the state and not from Delhi, a veiled reference to PM Narendra Modi's Gujarat-centric projects. Some members of the National Students Union of India (NSUI), the party's student wing, greeted him as he left Jamnagar for Rajkot this morning. The Congress leader urged the NSUI members to work hard to bring the party to power in Gujarat. Taking a dig at BJP governments in the state and at the Centre, Gandhi said if the Congress was voted to power, his party's government would function from Gujarat and not on orders from Delhi. On his way, at Falla village in Jamnagar, locals welcomed him by raising the slogan 'Jai Patidar, Jai Sardar'. People were also seen wearing caps with the same slogan. Gandhi, who is on the second day of his three-day tour of Gujarat, is slated to visit several villages and towns, such as Dhrol and Tankara that have a sizable Patel population. The Congress is hoping to get the support of this decisive vote bank during the polls due later this year. Yesterday, on the first day of his visit to the state, Gandhi was greeted by Hardik Patel, leader of the Patel quota agitation. "A warm welcome to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat," Patel tweeted in Hindi yesterday when Gandhi landed at Dwarka. Patel had earlier hinted that he may consider supporting the Congress in the Assembly polls to achieve the goal of reservation to the Patel community under OBC quota. Gandhi had attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over issues like note ban, GST, farm policies and 'Gujarat model' of development, during his campaign from Dwarka to Jamnagar yesterday. He also expressed confidence about winning the upcoming Assembly elections, claiming that there was a strong undercurrent in favour of the Congress in Gujarat and the people regretted having voted for the BJP. PTI Womans easy virtue doesnt give anyone the right to take advantage of her: Bombay HC India oi-Vicky By Vicky A woman may have an easy virtue, but it does not give anybody the right to take advantage of it, the Bombay High Court observed. The court made these observations while refusing bail to a man convicted of raping a minor. She has a right to say no," the court observed. The accused, who was the uncle of the accused, had approached the HC for suspension of his sentence besides seeking bail during the pendency of the appeal filed by him. He was tried and convicted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and for criminal intimidation under the IPC. He was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. The lawyer for the accused argued that there was a delay in lodging the FIR and when the girl was taken to a shelter home she did not disclose that she had been raped. Further, he added, the victim had two boyfriends with whom she had sexual relations. "A woman may be having easy virtue but that does not mean that all and sundry can take advantage of this fact. She has the right to say no. Therefore, even if it is assumed that the victim was having two boyfriends, that does not empower the applicant to commit penetrative sexual assault on her. She had not attained consenting age," observed Justice A M Badar. Refuting the argument that the accused, being the only earning member in the family, be released on bail, Justice Badar said, "Unavailability of earning, particularly in the family, is not a relevant consideration for suspension of sentence." OneIndia News For Breaking News and Instant Updates Allow Notifications Story first published: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 7:19 [IST] The police are to remain deployed at parliament today to maintain law and order ahead of the much anticipated debate on lifting of the age limit. Kampala Metropolitan Police Commander Frank Mwesigwa says they have information that opposition politicians have mobilized people to stage anti-age limit protests and it is their duty to ensure security for Ugandans. Mesigwa said that some roads around Parliament will be closed today, urging members of the general public to use alternative routes as shall be guided by traffic police. Among the roads to be closed is Kimanthi Avenue, Parliamentary Avenue, Dewinton and Nile Avenue. However, it is not yet clear if the age limit debate will be included on todays Order Paper. After Emans death, sister thanks doctors at Burjee Hospital for doing their best International oi-Madhuri Almost five months after Egyptian national Eman Abdul Atti left Mumbai after shedding 330 -kg from her once 500kg, she died at 4.35am on Monday at Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi due to complications from heart disease and kidney dysfunction. Eman's sister Shaimaa Selim later thanked the Abu Dhabi doctors for 'doing their best' job. "The doctors did their best, but suddenly in a moment everything changed. We are taking her back to Alexandria tomorrow (Tuesday). I cannot imagine life without her, but what more can we do now than pray for her?,'' she said to TOI. Eman, who turned 37 earlier this month was joined by her mother and her niece for the celebrations at Burjeel, where she was housed in Room 528 on the fifth floor--a sprawling 93 sqm wood-panel led suite remodelled with an extra-wide double door. The 36-year-old had arrived at the Bureej hospital in Abu Dhabi on May 4 to complete her treatment trip. OneIndia News For Breaking News and Instant Updates Allow Notifications Story first published: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 12:54 [IST] After India, Afghanistan slams Pakistan over terrorist safe havens International oi-Madhuri Afghan foreign minister Salahuddin Rabbani who attended the UN General Assembly on Tuesday said that Pakistan has been exporting terrorism across border for decades. ''Despite being on receiving-end of provocative actions, they have maintained a principled position in seeking to resolve differences through dialogue, diplomacy and peaceful means. It's particularly true in case of Pakistan,'' Afghanistan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani said in United Nations Security Council. ''Pakistan has so far failed to respond positively at its own cost, particularly in relation to its global reputation & standing,'' Rabbani told UNSC. The minister also said,''Scourge of terrorism affecting Afghanistan is product of long-standing policy by a neighboring State to keep Afghanistan unstable. It has menaced Afghanistan for several decades now, with its roots located in terrorist sanctuaries & safe havens outside Afghanistan.'' India, on Friday, gave a fitting response to Pakistan at the United Nations by highlighting that the neighboring nation has now become synonymous with terrorism. A statement made by India's First Secretary to the United Nations, Eenam Gambhir said, "Pakistan is now Terroristan." OneIndia News To say Donald Trump's UN speech last week was an embarrassment for his country is to understate the case; to say it made the U.S. a laughing stock is closer to the mark. A cornucopia of falsehoods and half-truths, it included the risible assertion of America's respect for the sovereignty of other nations; North Africa, the Middle East, Afghanistan, even Ukraine all lost to temporary amnesia, the largely unsuccessful focus was on attracting support against North Korea and Iran -- recidivism to the Bush-Cheney neocon position. And meeting with the leaders of Columbia and Brazil to discuss Venezuela (could regime change be on someone's mind?) was the icing on the cake of hypocrisy. Drug money is a perpetual flood in Columbia; political corruption runs rife in Brazil. Three weeks ago, $16 million worth of cash was found stashed in an apartment used by a former cabinet minister in President Michel Temer's government. Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel was highly critical: "I am against threats of this kind ... I must say we consider any type of military solution absolutely inappropriate and we are counting on diplomatic efforts." She is also reported to have observed that more Germans are anti-Trump than are anti-immigration. Merkel, Xi and Putin were all absent from Trump's speech. The new threats expanding the previous "fire and fury" now promise complete annihilation of North Korea, a country of 25 million. No thoughts about the effects on South Korea, or of the thousands there who still have relatives in the North. If Theodore Roosevelt advised us to "talk softly and carry a big stick," Donald Trump prefers the megaphone; so far to no tangible benefit. He has relied on China to help, seemingly without realizing its relations with North Korea are at an ebb while the latter's ties with Russia have strengthened. Kim Jong-un has not visited Beijing and President Xi Jinping has not been to Pyongyang. More to the point, President Xi has held four summit meetings with his South Korean counterparts -- he is keen to foster closer ties. Indeed, while China does help prop up the North Korean economy, its (and Russia's) current focus is on economic links with the South via a rail link through the North, joining the peninsula to China and Russia and beyond to the Eurasian One Belt One Road network -- new markets for the participants. As Mr. Trump throws Iran into their welcoming arms, it, too, is a willing participant in this massive development strategy. Caveat to this article! Don't mistake me for an alt left liberal or a far right conservative! I am a neutral clear thinker of native descent! I didn't vote but I did have high hopes for Trump standing up to the deep state and making peace with Russia. So why is his attention focused on our own citizens who chose to express themselves according to our own first amendment? Maybe there are some who don't (and rightfully so) respect what this country stands for anymore! Maybe they don't like the fact that this country has turned into, and probably always has been, a war mongering, land grabbing, and divisive nation! Let's look at some real issues. Trump ran on the platform of not interfering in sovereign nations yet he continues to allow his generals to militarily support and assist supposed freedom fighters in Syria, which are really USA created terrorists and paid mercenaries. What are we doing in Syria anyway? It's an act of war to be in a sovereign nation since we weren't invited. Russia was invited to come in...Not us! Russia is saving the day on eliminating ISIS, which they have almost done, no thanks to the USA. The USA has a habit of interfering in the sovereignty of other nations, which brings up another point. Leave Kim Jung Un and North Korea alone! You really think he is a threat? If you do then you are saying that our missile technology is out of date and behind that of North Korea! Is it? We should be able to take out any rocket he fires with pinpoint accuracy before it enters our airspace! North Korea's technology and nuclear capabilities can't be better than the all mighty USA's can it? So is this NFL issue a big unneeded distraction? Didn't the founding fathers say we have the freedom of religion and the freedom for free expression! If you don't want to stand for the national anthem to make a statement, then so what? Is President Trump saying it is disrespectful to have free expression? These are first amendment rights! I am not a supporter of jingoistic nationalistic fervor! If I lean towards anything it would be what I call true patriots, who want to defend the constitution and keep the bill of rights in tact! As a native I never felt compelled to stand for the national anthem or salute the flag! Maybe it's because I saw what that flag and those flying that banner did to my ancestors who were the original inhabitants of this country! America came later! Over 100 million dead (some say 300 million) and displaced indigenous people! So I'm not a big fan of this government, but I am a realist and hope and pray that the people of this country don't end up like my ancestors! Trump needs to get back to the business of eliminating the deep state and fighting the New World Order fanatics who are bent on destroying America through their continual war mongering attitude! He needs to concentrate on eliminating the George Soros crew, anti-fa, and the treasonous camp that still surrounds him in his cabinet! I don't care about whether someone stands for the national anthem or not! This is trivial nonsense and a non-starter! Let's look at some history in regards to some symbols that represent America. Francis Scott key penned the national anthem in an attempt at prisoner exchange. He wasn't fighting in a battle! But it's irrelevant who wrote some poem that was later turned into a national anthem by Woodrow Wilson signing an executive order! The Flag is just a piece of cloth and the Star Spangled banner mere words from a poem. There is nothing inherently wrong with these things, but what do they represent? What was this nation founded upon? The encroachment of this land by the Mayflower and its barbarous lot who displaced the native population with systematic mass extermination. No let me rephrase that!! Brutal mass extermination and horrific barbarous acts. In fact it was theft of land and mass extermination of the peoples inhabiting that land. But I digress. Let's fast forward to the penning of the constitution and the amendments or the Bill of Rights! The wording of the Bill of Rights insures that the populace be free of any encumbrance by government. Freedom of expression or free speech, freedom to bear arms against even the government, freedom from searching one's private effects etc. So that's what the flag is supposed to represent. But does it? Not anymore. Look at the situation today, it's a deplorable mess and everything the Founding Fathers intended is in a shambles, including the Constitution. So why would anyone want to salute or stand up for something representing an eroded self-serving corporate entity known as "America"! Some say that standing, just as bowing down, is an act of worship, just as you would bow to an idol. Consider them idols representing a larger entity! Bowing down or reciting a pledge is a mindless act of obedience to a state which you may not feel any respect for! It's our right not to participate in that kind of ritual if we so desire, and in fact it's our right to overthrow what that flag represents, if it gets out of hand. It has gotten out of hand and in effect the Constitution has been eroded by things like the worthless piece of paper called the Patriot Act, which tries to circumvent the Bill of Rights. This erosion has been caused by the elite money people who have co-opted the various departments of government and war to further their New World Order agenda. Power to the people and those who refuse to take part by acts of civil gestures to send a message! My hope was that Trump would challenge the ruling elite and throw them out! But his current actions of demonizing free expression and raising the flag issue have me questioning just who's side he is on. He is playing into the hands of those who call him a white supremacist or at the very least a nationalist, or jingoist! Not to mention the further pursuit of an agenda that is still warmongering, land grabbing and demonizing other nations. Perhaps he is bowing to some kind of unknown pressure behind the scenes. Screaming at North Korea and calling their leader names along with threats of complete destruction sound more to me like the previous administration! As Trump would say! NOT GOOD! Name calling and threats sound like a schoolyard bully with a loud mouth, not a President or Commander in Chief! Where is the decorum expected of such an office! You don't see Putin engaged in such nonsense. So the bottom line is President Trump is not living up to expectations I might have had, and he's sidetracking us into an area that could cause more division in America. If I could talk to him I would say: "What in your God's name are you doing? Get back on the track of defeating the globalists, making peace with Russia, and making America worthy of respect, instead of a land grabbing, divisive nation". Next Page 1 | 2 (Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher). The United States is supporting and profiting from a war being waged by the richest Arab country, Saudi Arabia, against the poorest Arab country, its neighbor Yemen. Since March of 2015 a Saudi-led coalition has destroyed much of Yemen's infrastructure--ports, factories, warehouses, farms, roads, schools and medical facilities, leading to widespread misery and death. The Saudi coalition of Sunni governments includes oil-rich absolute monarchies such as the UAE and Bahrain, and the corrupt dictatorship of Egypt's Al Sisi. They are trying unsuccessfully to restore an unpopular Sunni government forced out by Houthi Shiite rebels in 2015. This Yemeni civil war is partly a reflection of the wider civil war within Islam between Sunni and Shia, with Saudi Arabia and Iran as the leading powers on each side. The Obama and Trump administrations have accepted Saudi claims that Iran is a major arms supplier for the Houthis. However, as award-winning investigative journalist Gareth Porter points out , the Houthis received Iranian guided missiles only after the Saudis began their bombing campaign, "to allow the Houthis to have some means of retaliation." As Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution explains, from Iran's point of view supplying arms and training to the Houthis is an inexpensive way to bog down its Saudi adversary in a very costly quagmire. And, as Trump made clear on his May 20 visit when he joined Saudi King Salman in a traditional male-only sword dance, the U.S. will continue to help, with more multibillion-dollar weapon sales to the Saudis, intelligence sharing and aerial refueling of coalition aircraft so they can spend more time raining destruction on Yemen. Given the Trump administration's mounting hostility to Iran, there seems to be no end in sight for the proxy war in Yemen. Gruesome numbers reveal the scale of the disaster overtaking this nation of 25 million. In July the UN special envoy to Yemen told the UN Security Council that seven million--including 2.3 million children under the age of five--are on the "cusp of famine." Stephen O'Brien, UN Under-Secretary-General For Humanitarian Affairs, reported that between March 2015 and Oct. 31 of 2016, "10,000 children under the age of five have perished from preventable diseases as a result of the sharp decline in the availability of immunizations and remedies for diarrhea and pneumonia." According to Anas Shahari of Save the Children Yemen, there are 344,000 confirmed or suspected cholera cases. There have been "more than 1,700 cases of deaths because of cholera; 42 percent of this number is children." Here's a picture that captures the obscenity of the U.S. role in Yemen: juxtapose a photo of an American tanker plane hovering over Yemen gracefully copulating by fuel line with a Saudi fighter-bomber, and a photo of one of the millions of young children on the ground starving because food sources have been destroyed by coalition aircraft. Next Page 1 | 2 (Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher). Quicklink Not Found Sometimes, authors delete their quicklinks after publishing them. To see if the quicklink was renamed or re-published, please click here. Daniel Kovalik is author of the recently-released book The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Russia. He teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He has worked on Alien Tort Claims Act cases against The Coca-Cola Company and Occidental Petroleum -- cases arising out of egregious human rights abuses in Colombia. The Christian Science Monitor, referring to his work defending Colombian unionists under threat of assassination, recently described Mr. Kovalik as "one of the most prominent defenders of Colombian workers in the United States." Mr. Kovalik received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford University School of Law and was the recipient of the Project Censored Award for his article exposing the unprecedented killing of trade unionists in Colombia. Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson. Producer: David Swanson. Music by Duke Ellington. Download from LetsTryDemocracy or Archive. Pacifica stations can also download from Audioport. Please encourage your local radio stations to carry this program every week! Please embed the SoundCloud audio on your own website! Past Talk Nation Radio shows are all available free and complete at http://TalkNationRadio.org and at https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/tracks David Swanson Social Media Pages: David Swanson is the author of "When the World Outlawed War," "War Is A Lie" and "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union." He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works for the online ( more... The views expressed herein are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of this website or its editors. OpEdNews depends upon can't survive without your help. If you value this article and the work of OpEdNews, please either Donate or Purchase a premium membership. See original here By Mark Sumner Donald Trump - Demagogue, Populist, Autocrat (Image by pixabay) Details DMCA On Monday evening, Donald Trump finally got around to mentioning Puerto Rico for the first time since Hurricane Maria finished passing over the island. And what he delivered was a level of cruelty usually reserved for four-year-olds holding a magnifying glass above ants. Trump followed this initial tweet with a couple of followups. They did not make things better. "It's old electrical grid, which was in terrible shape, was devastated. Much of the island was destroyed, with billions of dollars owed to Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with. Food, water, and medical are top priorities -- and doing well. #FEMA" Donald Trump finally deigned to notice three and a half million Americans in Puerto Rico. Americans without power, without shelter, and -- despite Trump's afterthought -- without clean water, without adequate food or medical care. Americans living in the shattered ruins of their homes unable to even communicate with loved ones to let them know they're still alive. And he blamed them. "It took Donald Trump five full days to respond to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria on the lives of 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico, and when he finally did so his comments on Twitter were so devoid of empathy it threatened to spark a new controversy." It was the first comment Trump has made on Puerto Rico since hours before Maria made landfall as a category four hurricane pummelling the island and destroying its entire power network with winds of up to 155mph (250km/h). On that occasion he told the people of Puerto Rico: "We are with you." But for many Puerto Ricans the reality five days after the hurricane struck is that the US president has not been with them. Next Page 1 | 2 (Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher). From Smirking Chimp By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Health Care (Image by picserver.org) Details DMCA With just a week left before Congress' budget reconciliation process ends, the Senate is once again peddling a poorly-thought out plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If Senators vote before the September 30 deadline, they only need 50 votes instead of the filibuster-proof 60 votes to pass amendments. And once again, people are rising up in opposition to the plan, making it unpopular and unlikely to pass. At the same time, support for a National Improved Medicare for All single payer healthcare system is increasing and there are bills in both the House and Senate with record numbers of co-sponsors. Will the United States finally join the long list of countries that provide healthcare to everyone? Overall, it is a time to be optimistic. The movement for National Improved Medicare for All has made great strides this year. Whether we succeed still hangs in the balance. We discuss what it will take to win and how to proceed. Join Health Over Profit for Everyone (HOPE), a campaign for National Improved Medicare for All. First, Some History Efforts to create a national health insurance have existed in the United States for the past 100 years. Health historian, David Barton Smith, writes (in a draft chapter) that the fundamental struggle in the US has been over the question of whether health care is a commodity that belongs in a market or whether it is a basic necessity that requires the protection of government so that it is universal. Smith breaks up the past one hundred years into five phases and argues that in each phase, compromises were made that failed because they did not meet the fundamental criteria of covering everyone and achieving effective governmental oversight. He refers to these compromises as "more palatable approaches" that were considered to be politically feasible, but each "self-destructed." These failures, including the most recent ACA, have driven health care deeper into the pockets of private industry from the provision of medical services to the the production and distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Doctors are turning their practices over to large institutions, "going corporate," in order to have the negotiating power to simply exist in this environment. Mergers by health insurers, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies have been acts of desperation, as each sector fights for control. But the bottom line in this fight is profit for a few, not health for the many, and so it is the public who suffers. Dr. Adam Gaffney traces and explains this trend from the 1940s to the present in "The Neo-liberal Turn in American Health Care." Make no mistake, currently, in the United States, health care is a commodity, and the profiteers are going wild. Since passage of the ACA, major health insurance company stock values have quadrupled. And they are never satisfied. Democrats and Republicans in Congress are discussing a "bipartisan approach," as outlined by the Center for American Progress, which is funded by health industry lobbyists, to fix the healthcare system. Their plan is to give billions of more dollars to the industry to encourage it to cover our healthcare needs. They refer to this as "stabilizing the market." Any person who says that health care is a right or basic necessity but supports keeping the existing market-based structure is either confused or lying. The market model of health care is a failure. Even Fareed Zakaria, conservative host of CNN, understands this. This history is important because the elites in power are working to maintain their grip on the system. Incrementalists were out in full force after the failure of repeal attempts this summer. Writers who claim to be progressives argued that those who want National Improved Medicare for All are asking for too much, that it is just not politically feasible and that we must compromise. But what they might consider to be doable won't solve the healthcare crisis. Incremental steps that were taken in the past did not succeed because they failed to meet the basic requirements of being both universal and properly overseen by the government. This is why we say that the smallest incremental step that we can take in the US is to create a National Improved Medicare for All, a universal publicly-funded healthcare system that relegates private insurers to a supplemental role to provide extras that the system does not cover. Beyond that, there will still be a lot to do to make sure everyone has their healthcare needs met. National Improved Medicare for All is on the table A victory this year is that there are bills in the House and Senate that outline a National Improved Medicare for All healthcare system, and they have record numbers of co-sponsors. HR 676 is considered the 'gold standard'. It has been introduced every session since 2003 and it has broad support from the single payer healthcare movement. It would truly treat health care as a public necessity and not a commodity. Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 (Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher). By Misairi Thembo Kahungu: Ugandans living in South Korea are demanding that government opens up an embassy in the capital Seoul to help solve the challenges they are currently facing. There are currently about 500 members of the Ugandan Community in South Korea who claim to be facing legal, health and work related problems, according to David Kituuka Nsubuga the groups General Secretary. In a statement, he says all Ugandans in South Korea are served by the Ugandan embassy in Tokyo, the Japanese capital which is far away from us because it means you must fly there in case you case needs urgent attention from the mission staff. According to Nsubuga, the Ugandans whose passports expire and those who lose them risk being imprisoned for illegal stay because of the delay by the embassy in Tokyo to respond to renewal requests. The group also wants the government of Uganda to use the bilateral relations with Korea to work on an arrangement of E-7 visa an online process that allows foreign nationals to work in the country without immigration complications. In response to these concerns, the Public Affairs communication officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Margaret Awino Kafeero, says plans are underway to establish an embassy in Seoul to but they are only waiting for funds from the Ministry of Finance. This comes ahead of the 2nd Annual convention to Mark Ugandas 55th Independence anniversary slated for October 5, 2017 Pyongtaek City From Smirking Chimp (Image by NYCLU/Twitter) Details DMCA The immensely powerful, deeply moving and historic protests of our nation's athletes against the absurd rantings of our Great Dictator make one thing abundantly clear: the diversity of this nation is not going away. But The Star Spangled Banner should. It's a lousy song with a racist message. We need a new anthem -- or to acknowledge many of them. Likewise the dotard illegitimately occupying the White House. We can do better. So let's combine the campaigns. Words to the Star Spangled Banner were written by Francis Scott Key, a slaveowner. He commemorated the failure of the British to conquer Baltimore in the War of 1812, an utterly useless conflict. The Brits had just burned our nation's capital, partly in response to our burning their Canadian headquarters at York, now Toronto. As Jason Johnson has shown in his "Star Spangled Bigotry," buried in the lyrics was a clear racist put-down of freed slaves fighting for the English. They were set to a drinking tune, To Anacreon in Heaven. The Navy adopted the song in 1889, then Woodrow Wilson in 1916. Wilson was stirring up fervor for US entry into World War I, which the majority of Americans strongly opposed. He used that war as cover to crush the Socialist Party, which had millions of supporters. He jailed our greatest labor leader, Indiana's Eugene V. Debs, for daring to speak against a war that killed at least 10,000,000 people and accomplished nothing. Congress turned down the song a number of times before it was officially adopted in 1931, in the midst of the Depression. The iconic version came from Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, 1969. He did it with no lyrics. But in the midst of the useless, worthless war in Vietnam, he inserted a version of Taps. Right-wingers freaked out and branded him "unpatriotic." Unlike most of them, Jimi had actually served in the military. Now it's played at July 4th celebrations everywhere. I use it to start all my college history classes. Nobody stands. According to political scientist Bob Fitrakis, in the 1930s American farmers and workers celebrated our country with Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land. There are other candidates...and some heated opinions. The great activist Sheila Parks says: "I am hoping you will listen, again perhaps, to these songs and see what they have to say about white people and Native American Peoples." Next Page 1 | 2 (Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher). This is a reprint from NewsBred. Mainstream Media and Fake News (Image by NewsBred) Details DMCA (Facebook today came out with a full-page advertisement in Indian Express (September 26, 2017) with 10 tools for a reader to check if a news is fake. It asks readers to check headlines, evidence, photos, source to spot a Fake News. It's a good reference point to monitor our English national dailies--Lutyens' Media-- who abound in Fake News. It's a start today and we would gradually warm up to daily planting of Fake News by mainstream media.) Indian Express today had 7 stories on Banaras Hindu University (BHU) violence, running from its Front Page to multiple pages inside its Delhi edition. It fails the Facebook Fake News Challenge on multiple counts. EVIDENCE: A front page piece attributes several issues which girl hostellers face in BHU. There is not a SINGLE source attributed!!! Further there is no attempt to investigate--in this or in any other BHU story in Indian Express today if there is truth in (a) Outside BHU elements creating ruckus; (b) attempt to destroy the University property; (c) police targeting only these "troublemakers" (d) BHU Vice-Chancellor alleging protests politically motivated. Interestingly, THE PROTESTORS THEMSELVES SAY THE OUTSIDE ELEMENTS HAVE CAUSED THE TROUBLE!!! Why Express has made no attempt to investigate it? Or other news reports? (see image)? SOURCE: Seema Chisti writes thus on Edit Page in today's Express: "BHU has pushed for no Wi-Fi (How can the new VC risk Wi-Fis, as girls would watch porn). Meat-eating must be curbed and early bedtimes enforced. The VC, who defended RSS ideas, was keen to stamp out any trouble in BHU." The Facebook Fake News Challenge asks readers to be sceptical of the source you don't trust. Seema Chisti falls in this bracket. She never mentions she is Seema Chisti Yechury, wife of Communist powerhead, Sitaram Yechury. Readers can't be faulted if she is perceived as part of Communist propaganda machine. One, there is Wi-Fi in girls' hostel (so they can watch porn, Ms Chisti). Two, meat-eating is not curbed (Extra Rs 30 ensure it); Three, early bedtimes are not enforced--Girl students can take permission from BHU authorities and stay out as long as they want. Let's not even stoop to reply her charge on the BHU VC having RSS leaning (And why readers must not presume you are a Communist loudspeaker, Ms Chisti?) HEADLINES: The Front Page headline of "Why women BHU students are separate and unequal" is classically ambiguous. You can interpret it both ways--that WHY SHOULD girls have separate rules or WHY SHOULD NOT there be separate rules.. But for the standard tactics of misleading headlines, I would give a more concrete example. On Page 11 of Indian Express, one of its exclusive story has this headline: "Rohingya illegal, purse-strings open for Lankan Tamil refugees". Now this headline clearly aims to influence the readers that the Modi government is discriminatory; it has one policy for Rohingya Muslims and another for Non-Muslims. What it shamelessly hides is that Rohingyas are ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS and not REFUGEES! So the two instances can't be compared. Unless the newspaper sees no difference between apples and oranges. As an aside, click on this link to see how from politicians (Ashok Gehlot, Sanjay Sharma), to journalists (Mrinal Pande, Swati Chaturvedi) to lawyers (Prashant Bhushan) have blatantly peddled lies on the BHU affair and make up your own mind on these Fake News Promoters. Raise the Minimum Wage (Image by pasa47) Details DMCA Readings for 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time: IS 55: 6-9; PS 145: 2-3, 8-9; 17-18; PHIL 1: 20c-24, 27A; MT 20: 1-16A. What will the Kingdom of Heaven be like for minimum wage workers? Ask the poor people Jesus speaks to in today's gospel. There the Great Teacher tells them a story about a character every employee -- all of us, I'm sure -- encounters at some point in her or his life. He's the skinflint boss who imagines himself a great humanitarian, despises his workers as lazy, and treats them with complete arbitrariness. He takes great delight in disappointing them -- simply because he can. The familiarity of this comic book character must have set Jesus' audience laughing. And it probably started a long animated conversation about bosses, wages and employment. Anyway, the story goes like this . . . It's late in the harvest season and this big fat landowner goes to the town square to hire fruit pickers who are shaping up there. (You can imagine him coming by in his pick-up truck, smoking his cigar, pointing at the strongest workers, and shouting, "Hey, you guys, get off your lazy duffs and jump in the back. I haven't got all day. There's work to be done!") In the story, you can tell the owner's a cheapskate because he's careful to hire just the minimum number of workers he thinks can get the job done -- if he pushes them really hard. But he miscalculates. So he has to return at noon for more pickers. But instead of blaming his own stupidity, he blames the workers. He calls them "lazy" for "standing around idle." He shouts at them, "Get in the truck, you lazy no-goods! You should be working!" (What does he expect? They're waiting for someone to hire them, for God's sake! But then coupon-clippers, like the boss in the story, always despise calloused hands.) Now it's almost quitting time. With only an hour's daylight left, and with his fruit ready to rot in the fields, the skinflint owner finds himself back in the square hiring more workers. Again, he blames them for being lazy. But off they go to finish the day's work. Then the punch line comes. The completely capricious landowner suddenly decides to play the generous humanitarian. So with great flair he gives a full day's wage to those last hired -- my guess is: just a few workers. Naturally, the other pickers rub their hands together, drooling with expectation that they'll be paid more generously too. But of course old Scrooge disappoints them. (These kinds of bosses always do! They love it.) He decides instead to turn legalistic and teach these lazy good-for-nothings a lesson -- about power. "What do you mean: 'MORE?'" he shouts like the beadle in Oliver Twist. "Have you forgotten our contract? And besides, I'm the boss. I can do what I want, and you can't do a thing about it!" By this time, Jesus' audience surely had stopped laughing. They were probably grumbling and rehearsing their own similar experiences with cheap legalistic bosses who love to play the generous philanthropist. But then Jesus gets everyone smiling again by adding with a wink: "And so it will be when the revolution comes (or as he put it -- "in the Kingdom of God") where "the first will be last and the last will be first -- you know what I mean?" He winks again. It takes a while for the message to sink in. Not everyone "gets it." The audience scratches its collective head. Finally the penny drops. "Oh, I see what you're saying, Jesus," someone says. She looks around at the others. "Don't you get it?" she asks. "All of the workers in the story are 'the last;' it's the boss who's 'first'." In the final judgment, Uncle Scrooge will be last and all of us will be first!" The audience starts to cop on. Next Page 1 | 2 (Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher). This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. At the U.N. recently, Donald Trump followed up on his bloodcurdling threat to unleash on North Korea "fire and fury like the world has never seen" (essentially a warning of nuclear terror) with an even grimmer threat: to "totally destroy" that country. In his histrionic bluntness, Trump was not alone in raising the nuclear issue. We know, for instance, that Secretary of Defense James Mattis recently discussed with his South Korean counterpart the reintroduction of American "tactical" nuclear weapons, which happen to be anything but tactical in the normal sense of the word, in the South. While it's true that no previous American president has spoken in the style of The Donald, he stands in something of a proud American tradition when it comes to threatening North Korea, one that goes all the way back to the Korean War era. During that conflict, the U.S. Air Force dropped World War II levels of explosives on the Korean peninsula, leaving hardly a building standing in the northern and central parts of the country, and driving much of the population quite literally underground. The city of Wosun, for example, was bombarded from the sea for 41 days and nights in what Rear Admiral Allan Smith called "the longest sustained naval or air bombardment of a city in history." Meanwhile, the use of nuclear weapons was both considered and threatened. Here, for instance, is a passage from my book The End of Victory Culture on the subject: "At rear bases in Japan, atomic bombs were readied, the president [Truman] spoke publicly of their use, and the government seriously weighed various plans for their employment. According to historians Bruce Cumings and Jon Halliday, the nearest the United States came to using them was 'in early spring 1951. On 10 March, [General] MacArthur asked for something he called a "D" Day atomic capability... On 5 April the Joint Chiefs ordered immediate atomic retaliation against Manchurian bases if large numbers of new [Chinese] troops came into the fighting... and on 6 April Truman issued an order approving the Joint Chiefs' request and the transfer of a limited number of complete atomic weapons "to military custody."' "China, as well as Korea, was publicly and privately threatened with atomic attack. Lone B-29s were even sent on Hiroshima-like bombing runs over the North to drop dummy bombs in simulations of the real thing. In January 1953, a new artillery piece, the 280mm atomic cannon, was given a noticeable place in Dwight D. Eisenhower's inaugural parade and subsequently a battery of the guns was sent to Korea..." Yet North Korea did not surrender. A lesson somehow not yet absorbed in the United States 64 years of confrontation later. If, however, we all live through this grim moment of nuclear and other threats without Asia going up in flames (and then, undoubtedly, a crippled world economy going down in flames), historian Alfred McCoy offers quite a different vision of what World War III in Asia might look like in 2030. It's a high-tech tale of the rise of China and the decline of Donald Trump's America (never quite made "great" again), adapted from his dazzling new book, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power. Tom World War III With China How It Might Actually Be Fought By Alfred W. McCoy [This piece has been adapted and expanded from Alfred W. McCoy's new book, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power.] For the past 50 years, American leaders have been supremely confident that they could suffer military setbacks in places like Cuba or Vietnam without having their system of global hegemony, backed by the world's wealthiest economy and finest military, affected. The country was, after all, the planet's "indispensible nation," as Secretary of State Madeleine Albright proclaimed in 1998 (and other presidents and politicians have insisted ever since). The U.S. enjoyed a greater "disparity of power" over its would-be rivals than any empire ever, Yale historian Paul Kennedy announced in 2002. Certainly, it would remain "the sole superpower for decades to come," Foreign Affairs magazine assured us just last year. During the 2016 campaign, candidate Donald Trump promised his supporters that "we're gonna win with military... we are gonna win so much you may even get tired of winning." In August, while announcing his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, Trump reassured the nation: "In every generation, we have faced down evil, and we have always prevailed." In this fast-changing world, only one thing was certain: when it really counted, the United States could never lose. No longer. The Trump White House may still be basking in the glow of America's global supremacy but, just across the Potomac, the Pentagon has formed a more realistic view of its fading military superiority. In June, the Defense Department issued a major report titled on Risk Assessment in a Post-Primacy World, finding that the U.S. military "no longer enjoys an unassailable position versus state competitors," and "it no longer can... automatically generate consistent and sustained local military superiority at range." This sober assessment led the Pentagon's top strategists to "the jarring realization that 'we can lose.'" 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The new market report contains data for historic years 2014 & 2015, the base year of calculation is 2016 and the forecast period is 2017 to 2024.Request for Free Sample Report of North America Topical Drug Delivery Market Visit @Some of the major companies operating in this market are: MedPharm Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Johnson & Johnson Services Inc A J&J Company) Crescita Therapeutics Galderma S.A. Biofarmitalia s.r.l Pharmatek Laboratories, Inc. Stiefel Laboratories, Inc. Tapemark Acrux Limited Nitto Denko Corporation Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. Skinvisible Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co., Inc. Pocono Coated Products LLC TheraSolve NV. Samyang Biopharmaceuticals Corporation Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG Prosollus Pharmaceuticals Easton Pharmaceuticals Inc. Novosis AG Antares Pharma, Inc. Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. Transdermal Technologies, Inc. Sheffield Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Solvay 3M Drug Delivery SystemsThe North America topical drug delivery market is segmented on the basis of product type, distribution channel, end user, and geography.On the basis of product type the North America Topical Drug Delivery Market is segmented into transdermal drug delivery devices and topical drug delivery formulations. Topical drug delivery formulations are further segmented based on form into solid, semi-solid, and liquid. The semi solid segment is further classified into ointments, creams, lotions, gels, and pastes. The solid drugs segment is further segmented into powders and suppositors. The liquid drugs segment is further classified into solutions and suspensions.On the basis of end users, the North America Topical Drug Delivery Market is segmented into hospitals, home healthcare, clinics, diagnostic centers, and others.Based on country, the North America Topical Drug Delivery Market is segmented into U.S, Canada, and Mexico.The North America topical drug delivery market is highly fragmented with various companies operating in local regions. The major players have used various strategies such as new product launches, expansions, agreements, joint ventures, partnerships, acquisitions, and others to increase their footprints in this market.Inquiry before Buying Visit @Table of Content:1. INTRODUCTION2. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY3. MARKET LANDSCAPE SUMMARY4. PREMIUM INSIGHTS5. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY6. TOPICAL DRUG DELIVERY MARKET, BY PRODUCT TYPE7. TOPICAL DRUG DELIVERY MARKET, BY END-USER8. TOPICAL DRUG DELIVERY MARKET, BY DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL9. 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Owing to the rising demand of consumers for low sodium products, which results to the increasing use of permeate in various applications including bakery, prepared meals, soup and others. Moreover, high lactose in permeate results in brown appearance and caramelized aroma in baked products. Whey permeate is formed as a co-product of whey protein concentrate and whey protein isolate. However, milk permeate is a formed as the co-product of milk protein isolate and milk protein concentrate. Permeate is used as an alternative to ingredients such as whole milk powder and skim milk. Overall dairy industry is much consolidated market with various small players operating in it. Permeate market is expected to contribute significant growth in the next four to five years due to the evolving needs related to the milk coupled with the rising population in the forthcoming years.Permeate Market SegmentationGlobal permeate market is segmented on the basis of product type, application and region. Based on the product type global permeate segmentation includes whey and milk. Of which, whey permeate is expected to be the dominating segment over forecast period ,followed by the milk permeate segment due the various benefits associated with it such as it is less sweet than sucrose, absorbs synthetic and natural pigments, absorbs volatile flavor compounds and comparatively more moisture resistant. On the basis of application permeate market is segmented into, soups and sauces, dairy foods, beverages and meat. Among all the segments of permeate market dairy food is the leading segment, followed by other segments over the forecast period. Permeate market is expanding especially in Asia Pacific due to the rising awareness among consumers regarding the health benefits associated with the consumption of dairy products which includes high protein content coupled with increasing number of upper middle class population in the Asia Pacific region. Global permeate market is segmented on the basis of region into North America, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa and Japan.Request For Report Sample@Permeate Market: Region-wise OutlookThe Global permeate market is expected to witness robust growth over the forecast period due the various health benefit related to the consumption of permeate. Globally, among all regions, North America is expected to contribute the maximum market share during the forecast period. In North America, U.S is the dominating segment that contributes highest market share owing to the increasing production of permeate in U.S. However Asia Pacific is anticipated to witness significant growth owing to the rising awareness among consumers related to benefits of dairy ingredient such as permeate coupled with rising high income consumers in region such as India and China.Permeate Market: DriversMajor factors that fuel the growth of permeate market includes increasing consumption of milk and rising awareness among the consumers related to the health benefits associated with the consumption of permeate in the mature markets. However factor that hinder the growth of permeate market include lack of awareness among consumers in the emerging countries related to the benefits of the dairy ingredient such as permeate.Visit For TOC@Permeate Market: Key PlayersMajor companies operating in permeate market are Arla Foods Ingredients Inc., American dairy product institute, Fonterra Co-Operative Group, Nestle S.A, Silwan International General Trading LLC , La Belle Inc. and Volac International LimitedABOUT US:Future Market Insights (FMI) is a leading market intelligence and consulting firm. We deliver syndicated research reports, custom research reports and consulting services, which are personalized in nature. 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Many manufacturing companies are facing challenges because of an increase in operational costs and a decline in demand from consumers. Vendors of logistics services should be efficient in the provision of IT, data management, and SCM services. Accurate forecasting of demand takes systematic and proper planning, purchasing, and ordering of logistics operations. Logistics is the framework used to transport spare parts such as machine components, tools, and equipment required for the manufacture of new vehicles and replacement of defective parts. These parts can be transported by road, sea, rail, and air. Spare parts are also known as replacement parts, service parts, and repair parts. Spare parts are stored by vendors to be used when the demand arises for replacement or repair of a product. The demand for spares is characterized by fluctuations and volatility. It is affected by stochastic factors such as the intensity of product use, wear behavior, failure rates, and type of maintenance.The analysts forecast the global automotive spare parts logistics market to grow at a CAGR of 6.12% during the period 2016-2020.Covered in this reportThe report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the global automotive spare parts logistics market for 2016-2020. To calculate the market size, the report considers the revenue generated third-party logistics (3PL) providers providing spare parts logistics services in the market.The market is divided into the following segments based on geography: APAC Europe MEA North America South AmericaRequest a Sample Report @The report, Global Automotive Spare Parts Logistics Market 2016-2020, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the market landscape and its growth prospects over the coming years. 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