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Born 6 days apart, these two Libras had many things in common, most prominent being their ability to use the press as a tool of political mobilization & driving meaningful dialogues. Mahatma Gandhi and Jayaprakash… Please follow and like us:
See also: “Report: A 100 Percent Clean Future” See also: “Fact Sheet: A 100 Percent Clean Future” The United States can and must build a 100 Percent Clean Future that delivers on the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economywide by 2050 and net-negative emissions thereafter in order to limit global warming to 1.5 … Read moreInteractive: A 100 Percent Clean Future
The President of EarthWater Limited, a Dallas-based company, was charged in an indictment with obstructing justice in connection with an ongoing federal investigation. Please follow and like us:
A Texas tax return preparer was sentenced yesterday to 60 months in prison for her role in a scheme to defraud the United States and for 27 months (consecutive) for filing a false federal tax return, for a total of 87 months, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s … Read moreTexas Tax Return Preparer Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding the United States
On Oct. 8, 2019, Angel Armando Adrianzen, 45, of California was indicted by a Miami, Florida grand jury on fraud and extortion charges for engaging with call centers in Peru that took money from U.S. Spanish-speaking victims through lies and threats. Please follow and like us:
The Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today announced the agency’s case completion numbers topped 275,000 cases for fiscal year 2019 (FY19), the second highest number of case completions in EOIR’s history. Please follow and like us:
A Waco, Texas, tax return preparer was sentenced yesterday to 60 months in prison for her role in a scheme to defraud the United States and for filing a false federal tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. Please follow and like us:
Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of a Currently Approved Collection: H-1B Registration Tool Please follow and like us:
Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of a Currently Approved Collection: Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker Please follow and like us:
Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension, Without Change, of a Currently Approved Collection: Registration for Classification as a Refugee Please follow and like us:
Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of a Currently Approved Collection: USCIS Identity and Credential Access Management (ICAM) Please follow and like us:
The retail arm of private equity firm Xander has agreed to buy 20 acres of land in J K Gram, Thane from textile major Raymond Ltd for Rs 700 crore. The buyer, Virtuous Retail, will invest another Rs 1,700 crore to develop the site. Please follow and like us:
Are you dealing with a tough boss? Are your colleagues being mean to you? Is your workplace culture hindering your growth? Talk to us. Our panel of experts will assist you in resolving your workplace related matters. ‘AdWise’ will appear on these pages every Thursday to help you with your workplace matters. Write to us … Read moreAdWise: ‘Senior is using abusive language?’
Mortgage lender Indiabulls Housing Finance’s plans to turn into a bank by merging with Chennai-based Lakshmi Vilas Bank received a setback on Wednesday, with the banking regulator rejecting the proposal. Please follow and like us:
In our latest release to September 2019, the DFA Household Financial Confidence Index fell again, having move sideways more recently. In essence households are simply reflecting that rate cuts, a lower dollar and the international bad news from Trump’s Trade Wars, Brexit and Hong Kong are all making them more concerned, and less willing or … Read moreHousehold Financial Confidence Crushed Some More
Reliance Jio will start charging customers for calls made to networks of other operators such as Airtel and Vodafone-Idea. Blaming the decision on “regulatory uncertainty” related to inter-connect payments (IUC), Jio said it would rescind the move only when regulator Trai dismantles the IUC payments and makes call-termination charges zero. Please follow and like us:
The govt has allowed controversial Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei to participate in the 5G use case demos during the India Mobile Congress next week. However, the govt has not yet taken any final decision on participation of the company in the upcoming wider and broad-based 5G trials that give an opportunity to companies to … Read moreGovernment clears demo by Huawei for 5G tech
Editor’s Note: Brazil is to agriculture what China is to manufacturing. A corrupt, state supported source of predatory global oversupply. Including subsidized investment to take dominate US food processing in pursuit of Brazil’s national agro-industry strategy. WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), … Read moreSENS MENENDEZ AND RUBIO REQUEST COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES REVIEW TRANSACTIONS OF BRAZILIAN MEAT-PROCESSING CONGLOMERATE
On 7 October, the European Central Bank (ECB) published its liquidity stress test results for 103 euro area banks. ECB’s increased focus on stressed liquidity is credit positive for these banks. As the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) has a very short 30-day horizon, ECB looking at liquidity stresses lasting six months provides a much more … Read moreGFC Lessons For Banks Remain Unlearned
Excerpt: “For every 1,000 people who lost their jobs in a county there was a 2.7% rise in opioid-related overdose deaths. After fentanyl entered regional heroin supplies in 2013, the same 1,000 trade-related job losses led to an 11.3% spike in overdose deaths.” The Sackler family was once celebrated for its philanthropy. Now the owners of … Read moreFree-trade policies contributed to the opioid epidemic
Cash-strapped Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group on Wednesday appointed the chairman’s sons, Anmol and Anshul, on the board of Reliance Infrastructure. While Anmol, 27, joins Reliance Infrastructure through the directorship, younger sibling Anshul has been elevated to the board position within 10 months of joining the company. Please follow and like us:
Google, Facebook, Netflix etc. have a huge consumer base in several countries but no physical presence which is why Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has proposed a new global tax mechanism system for multinationals under which ‘some’ profits and corresponding taxing rights will be re-allocated to countries where the consumers are based. Please follow … Read moreGoogle, FB may face tax in line with India biz
“NORTH PRESS AGENCY @NPA_SY #BREAKING Syrian #Christian_leader Bassam Ishak: Christians of #Qamishli in North East Syria are witnessing the most systematic ethnic cleansing since the #Armenian & Syriacs #genocides in 1915 by the #Ottomans 5:11 PM · Oct 9, 2019” https://twitter.com/NPA_SY/status/1182040831789862915 Two days ago the world was warned: “Malik Hanna, an official of the Syriac … Read moreChristians of #Qamishli in North East Syria are Witnessing the Most Systematic Ethnic Cleansing Since the #Armenian & Syriacs #Genocides in 1915 by the #Ottomans (Turkey)
BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE Atlanta, GA, October 9, 2019: An artistic fundraiser for Sankara Nethralaya (SN) USA’s Atlanta Chapter, aptly titled DrishTi, presented by students of Kalaivani Dance Academy (KDA) under the guidance of Guru Padmaja Kelam and Siddarth Kelam raised $200,000 for the foundation at the Infinite Energy Center on September 8, 2019. The drive … Read moreDrishTi: Dance drama raises $200,000 for Sankara Nethralaya
Wild Boar in the Cane Field by Anniqua RanaPublisher: She Writes PressAvailable wherever books are sold BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE Immersive and intense, Wild Boar in the Cane Field, a novel by Anniqua Rana, explores the resilience of one woman’s spirit in the face of adversity. A baby girl opens her eyes on a train, abandoned, … Read moreBOOK REVIEW: Wild Boar in the Cane Field
Remarks By Secretary Wilbur Ross at the Australia Space Agency Meeting in Canberra, Australia KCPullen@doc.gov Wed, 10/09/2019 – 17:37 Space commerce AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Office of Public Affairs (202) 482-4883 publicaffairs@doc.gov Wilbur Ross Thank you for hosting us today at this beautiful observatory to discuss how our two nations are … Read moreRemarks By Secretary Wilbur Ross at the Australia Space Agency Meeting in Canberra, Australia
When my dear friend and a great concert pianist from Beijing, Yuan Sheng, used to live in New York, recording, giving concert and teaching at prestigious Manhattan School of Music, he told me that he used to cry at night: “In the United States, they smear China. I felt hurt, defenseless”. He returned to Beijing,… … Read moreSome in Hong Kong Feel Frustrated, as Their City Is Losing to Mainland China, by Andre Vltchek
When I read this evening in The Hill, which I mistakenly thought was a legitimate news publication rather than a weapon against President Trump and the Republicans, that the documented fact that Joe Biden and his son received between them $1,750,000 for preventing any Ukrainian investigation of the corrupt firm Burisma was mere unsupported “allegation,”… … Read moreTrump Is History and So Is the USA, by Paul Craig Roberts
Dear Readers, A small number of you seem to be obsessed and frustrated by my typos. Allow me to explain to you. When I was in high school we were advised, if we were university material, to take the typing course because college professors, unlike high school teachers, would look with disfavor on the task… … Read moreHow I Learned, or Didn’t, to Write, by Paul Craig Roberts
NRI Pulse Staff Report Atlanta, GA, October 9, 2019: Hindu deities are about to get their own series on Netflix. The streaming giant has greenlit a new animated series for preschoolers, Ghee Happy, from Academy Award-nominated director-animator-illustrator Sanjay Patel. Ghee Happy is a playful reimagining of Hindu deities, says a press release issued by the streaming … Read moreGhee Happy: Hindu deities get their own Netflix series
Wed, Oct 9th 2019 @ 5:03 pm EDT Canada’s Conservative Party pledged today to renegotiate the terms of a deal with the United States to limit migrants who cross from the U.S. into Canada, but it offered few details on how it would do so. Under the current terms of a 2002 agreement, Canada and … Read moreCanadian Conservatives seek to stop inflow of migrants from U.S.
Will the American People Rise Against Adam Shit, the Bitch Pelosi, and the Nadler Turd and Save their Country from Ruin, or will the American People Submit to The Rule By Lies? What Confidence Can We Have in the American People? Many people regard Matt Taibbi as a leftish as he writes for the sometimes… … Read moreIs America in Her Final Days? Will America be Here Next Year, Next Decade?, by Paul Craig Roberts
A good bit more now than a decade ago I was a member of Steve Sailer’s HBD (Human Biodiversity) mailing list. This dealt with (who would have thought it’) human biodiversity, meaning such things as evolution, racial differences, evolutionary psychology, and genetics. It was a bright and usually congenial group, if doctrinaire, from which I… … Read moreGreg, John, Razib, and Me, by Fred Reed
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Two months have elapsed since Parliament nullified Article 370 and the Kashmir Valley has largely remained calm amid heavy military deployment and restrictions on movement and communications. Outbreak of violence and consequent loss of lives… Please follow and like us:
By Pulkit Sharma A statistical report published by the World Health Organisation recently, declared India as the most depressed country in the world along with a sharp rise in the cases of suicide, anxiety, addictions… Please follow and like us:
Last weekend the death knell was sounded for 2,185 trees to make way for a Metro car-shed in Mumbai’s sylvan Aarey Milk Colony. The first lot was killed in the dead of night, leading to… Please follow and like us:
The Siliguri corridor, a narrow passage to India’s eight north-eastern (NE) states, is a perennial threat to our security. Strategically, it is the Achilles heel in the defence of almost 2,000 km of borders in… Please follow and like us:
I have seen, as an ENT surgeon, many cancers attributable to tobacco use. As per estimates, two fifth of cancers in India are related to tobacco use. Nearly half of these cancer patients meet a… Please follow and like us:
In November, government is expected to start the process of selling its equity stake in Air India. It will be the second attempt in a little over two years. The first attempt, which came on… Please follow and like us: