Modis projects that tilted the northeast states towards BJP

NEW DELHI: The stellar performance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recent state elections in Tripura Nagaland and Meghalaya is a landmark for a party which had little traction in the region except in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. The party never had any significant connect with the masses and was seen as an outsider. What changed the situation? BJP president Amit Shah in his first press conference after the results credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi s Act East policy for the upsurge in fortunes. Modi s Act East policy included a big push for road and railway infrastructure and various steps to boost the regional economy. While most of the infrastructural projects are at various stages of completion Modi s northeast agenda created a rhetoric of inclusiveness that helped bring the masses closer to the BJP. Below are a few important initiatives by the Modi government that may have made the BJP acceptable to the northeast voters: The railways push Before a metre-gauge line started in 2008 Tripura didn t have any railway link with the rest of the country. The Modi government converted it into broad gauge. All over the region the government has converted 900 km of tracks to broad gauge. It also launched a Rajdhani Express and the Tripura Sundari Express between Agartala and Delhi. In 2016 then railways minister https://community.articulate.com/users/RobertVadra Suresh Prabhu laid the foundation stone for the Rs 2 315 crore 88-km Dhansiri-Kohima railway track connecting Kohima to the national railway network. The government also began railway projects to connect Imphal Aizawl and Shillong. It has introduced more than two dozen new trains in the region. It also signed a deal with Bangladesh to develop a rail link between Tripura and Chittagong which would speed up flow of products especially grains to the region. Roads and highways Modi has branded his policy to build infrastructure in northeast as Transformation by Transportation . Lack of connectivity has been a major roadblock in the economic progress on the region. Modi s promise of connectivity resonates with the masses. More than 3 800 km of national highways with an investment of Rs. 32 000 crore have been sanctioned in the region in the past three years while nearly 1 200 km of roads have been constructed according to the government. In a public announcement in December last year Modi said the centre would invest another Rs. 60 000 crore under the Special Accelerated Road Development Programme in the northeast and Rs. 30 000 crore under the Bharatmala project over three years. Modi also dedicated to the nation a 271-km two-lane national highway connecting Tura in western Meghalaya to the state capital Shillong last year. Air connectivity The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has allocated Rs 3 400 crore for the upgradation of airports in the North East region. According to the government projects worth Rs 934 crore have already been completed while the rest would be over in the next two or three years. The aviation projects in the northeast include re-carpeting of the runway at Silchar and Lilabari airport and an aviation manpower training institute; development of Rupsi airport; a new integrated airport and an engineering workshop at Agartala; expansion and revamp of existing terminal building and runway at Dimapur; installation of an instrument landing system (ILS) at the Shillong airport; and operationalisation and development of the Tura airport. Other projects and policies Last year Modi dedicated the 60-MW Tuirial hydropower power project which made Mizoram the third power-surplus state in the northeast to Sikkim and Tripura. The project is expected to produce 251 million units of electricity annually. Announced in 1998 by the then Atal Bihari Vajpayee government it was the first major central government project to be successfully commissioned in Mizoram. Recently the government decided to fully fund various Central projects being implemented in the northeast instead of the previous practice of sharing 90 per cent of the cost. The Modi government has also made the 1360-km long India-Myanmar-Thailand trilateral highway which is to be completed in 2020 a centerpiece of its Act East policy. Opening the northeast to the ASEAN countries the highway will boost the regional economy. In Budget 2018-19 the government re-classified bamboo from tree to grass which would enable easier cultivation for commercial purposes. Bamboo is central to the rural economy of the northeast. Its classification as tree meant various restrictions on its produce transport and sale.
The landslide victory that the Bharatiya Janata Party got in the northeastern state of Tripura has rattled Kerala the most. The saffron party s first ever victory over the Communists has not only shaken the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) but also the Congress-led opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) in the southern state. The two fronts which have been ruling the state alternately for the last three decades were contenting themselves that the secular-minded people of Kerala will not allow BJP to sell its Hindutva agenda in the state. Thiruvananthapuram-based political analyst Jacob George said the BJP had exploded this myth in the Assembly elections by ending the quarter-century communist rule in Tripura and taking the party close to power in the two minority-dominated states of Nagaland and Meghalaya. BJP supporters hold up a placard of Prime Minister Narendra Modi after party s victory in Tripura Assembly elections results in Agartala on Saturday. PTI He pointed out that the saffron party had achieved this without playing the communal cards that it used effectively to conquer the Hindi belt. Jacob attributed BJP s success to its master campaign tactics and willingness to join hands with anybody including divisive forces. BJP wiped out Congress in Tripura by buying its top leaders and then made inroads into the Communist bastions by highlighting the raw deal the people received from the 25 years of Communist rule. If the party adopts the same tactics in the state it will be able to capture power in Kerala Jacob told Firstpost. Dhanraj another political analyst pointed out that the saffron party was able to make inroads into all regions of Tripura including the Bengali belt by projecting an alternate development agenda that would bring jobs to youths and better living conditions to the common man. BJP in Kerala has been focusing its attention on political issues so far. The party will be able to sway the youths and the middle class if it presents a credible development agenda before the people who have been voting for either front in the absence of a third alternative he added. BJP national president Amit Shah who is considered as the architect of the party s victories in at least a dozen states has signalled that his next target is Kerala. Dhanraj feels Shah may adopt the same strategy he has experimented successfully in Tripura in Kerala too. This will be catastrophic for both the fronts since they have not been able to break the development jinx in the state. Both have been resting on the laurels of the past achievements on the social front. With these achievements showing signs of crumbling in the absence of corresponding growth in the productive sectors disenchantment against the two is mounting among the people he added. The BJP has not been able to cash in on this as it did not have a leader with a wider appeal. The party s national leadership is trying to solve this problem by cultivating leaders like Alphonse Kannanthanam who belongs to the minority community which accounts for 46 percent of the population in the state. Political observers believe that he was promoted as a union minister with this objective in mind. The two dominant fronts have been going easy thinking that the BJP will affect the other. The optimism of the Congress was based on the calculation that BJP s alliance with Bharatiya Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS) a new outfit of the lower caste Ezhavas will affect the CPM the most. The party believed that the alliance would take away the CPM votes since Ezhavas constituted the major chunk of the Communist cadre. But the local body elections in November 2015 and the Assembly polls in May 2016 proved its calculations wrong. The Congress was relegated to the third position in most places where the BJP made advances. This is one reason why the state unit of the CPM is opposing any understanding with the Congress tooth and nail. Jacob said that if the party does not recognise the danger posed by the BJP Pinarayi Vijayan will be last Communist chief minister in Kerala as predicted by Shah. The state leadership of CPM has been following a strategy of weakening the UDF by wooing its constituents. While the party has already brought the Janata Dal (U) out from the UDF it is trying to bring the Kerala Congress (M) which quit the Opposition coalition in the wake of the Assembly election into the LDF fold before the Lok Sabha elections in 2019. The state leadership of the CPM believe that they will be able to continue in power as their counterparts in West Bengal and Tripura did earlier if the Congress is crushed. However a large section of the cadres believes it will pave the way for the BJP to capture power in the state. Party general secretary Sitaram Yechury who advocated electoral adjustments with the Congress and other secular parties to defeat the BJP and its communal agenda had viewed this as the result of parochial thinking on the part of the state unit. Terming it as suicidal at the state conference of the party last month Yechury had warned the state leaders not to consider the party as Communist Party of Kerala Marxist. Defending his line Yechury told the comrades that CPM was not what they perceive in Kerala and added that the party could not take a political line for the entire country based on one state or one group. Jacob believes that the huge setback the CPM has suffered in Tripura may force the state unit to have a rethinking on the stand they had taken on the political line at the central committee meeting at Kolkata in February. If they fail it will be described as another historic blunder at the coming party congress at Hyderabad in April he added. Jacob said that there was strong resentment among a large section of the cadres about the adamant stand the state unit had taken on the political line. Many of them believe that it is part of the widening power equations in the party than based on the ground realities. Jacob feels that the resentment will grow following the ignominious defeat the party has suffered in Tripura forcing the state leadership to change their stand. Indications in this regard came when CPM Ernakulam district secretary P Rajeev conceded that the party may have to think of strategies to check the BJP without affecting its support base in the state. Jacob thinks that the CPM as well as Congress will face extinction in the state if they were not ready to take a united stand to counter the BJP surge.
Two days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dethroned the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from Tripura a Vladimir Lenin statue has been toppled in the state s Belonia town allegedly by BJP workers. The statue s vandalism was part of large-scale violence reported from Tripura as CPM offices in different parts of the state were defaced. Visuals of CPI (M) offices vandalised in different locations in #Tripura. pic.twitter.com/YUxpzRTksl ANI (@ANI) March 5 2018 A report on The Indian Express said the Lenin s statue had stood in Belonia s College Square for the last five years before it was brought down by BJP workers on Monday afternoon to the cries of Bharat Mata Ki Jai . The CPM has decried the violence and termed it Communism phobia . Eyewitnesses told me that after the statue fell its head was dismembered from the body. And then the BJP workers played football with Lenin s head Tapas Datta CPM s Belonia sub-division secretary was quoted as saying in the report. BJP national secretary Ram Madhav tweeted out a post saying people are taking down Lenin s statue and used the party s slogan for the Tripura elections Chalo Paltai with it. However he later deleted it. Ram Madhav deleted his tweet later Tripura had been ruled by the CPM for four straight terms before the BJP stunned the Left Front alliance winning 35 out of the state s 59 seats that went to Assembly polls while ally Indigenous People s Front of Tripura (IPFT) won eight. Outgoing deputy speaker of state Assembly Pabitra Kar Power Minister Manik Dey Tribal Welfare Minister Aghore Debbarma and Forest Minister Naresh Jamatia all suffered defeats from their respective constituencies. The CPM has accused the BJP of large-scale violence against its cadre saying there had been 1 500 incidents of attacks on CPM party offices in which 514 party leaders and supporters were injured. A report on The Telegraph quoted CPM state secretary Bijan Dhar as saying the attacks were not only on the party offices but also on personal properties of the party s leaders. Nearly 196 houses of party supporters were ransacked while 64 party offices were gutted in the 48 hours after Assembly election results were declared Dhar said. However the BJP has denied the party s involvement in these incidents instead saying it was a result of discontent of common people . BJP spokesperson Mrinal Kanti Deb said he was not aware of any such incident but even if they took place they weren t approved by BJP. Statues of Lenin and other communist statesmen were demolished after the Soviet Union broke up. Similarly such an incident would be a result of discontent of common people Deb told The Telegraph. After activists expressed dismay at the political targeting of Leftist icons Tripura governor Tathagata Roy appeared to defend the move saying all democratically elected governments are within their rights to revoke the decisions of their predecessors. What one democratically elected government can do another democratically elected government can undo. And vice versa https://t.co/Og8S1wjrJs Tathagata Roy (@tathagata2) March 5 2018 However BJP south district secretary Raju Nath seemed to have a different explanation for the statue s destruction painting it as an accident . The Indian Express report had quoted him as describing the incidents leading up to the statue s vandalism: We were carrying out a victory rally this afternoon. When we reached College Square there was a bulldozer that was trying to make its way through the crowds. In the process the driver lost control and hit the railing around the statue. When this happened the supporters surrounded the driver and made him bring down the statue. This was not an unnatural feeling for these people who have been oppressed by the CPM for so long.
.story-content span .story-content p .story-content div color:#000!important;font-family: open sans Arial!important;font-size:15px!important ALSO READ Tripura elections 2018: Modi says Cong CPI-M have secret pact - 10 points Here are the rising stars of BJP who helped it conquer the Northeast Nagaland assembly election results 2018: Allies help NDA go past the line East turns Right? 10 takeaways of Tripura Meghalaya Nagaland poll results span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 After the Tripura Assembly election results 2018 which saw the BJP demolishing the CPI(M)-led Left Front and winning a two-thirds majority together with its ally the IPFT there have been reports of sporadic violence and clashes among rival political groups in different parts of the state. Section 144 has been imposed in several violence-affected areas of Tripura. Also a statue of communist icon Vladimir Lenin was demolished at Belonia town in South Tripura on Monday. On Tuesday Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh spoke to the state s Governor and the DGP and asked them to ensure peace till a new government was installed. Singh was in the Northeast to attend the swearing-in of the Conrad Sangma-led Meghalaya government. In the recently concluded Assembly elections the state witnessed a change in rule after 25 years. The BJP-IPFT coalition swept the February 18 polls the results of which were declared on Saturday winning 43 of the 59 seats that went to the polls. The BJP secured 35 seats in the 60-member Assembly while its ally IPFT a tribal-based party won eight seats. The BJP has warned its leaders and supporters of stern action if they are found to be involved in post-poll violence in Tripura. Here are the top 10 developments around the cases of post-poll violence in Tripura: 1. BJP scored ideological victory in Tripura: Modi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday termed the BJP s performance in Tripura an ideological victory and said the message should be spread across the country to maintain its winning streak. Modi was addressing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Party meeting where he was felicitated by the party leaders amid chants of Jeet Hamari Jaari Hai Ab Karnataka Ki Baari Hai (our winning streak continues now it is Karnataka s turn). The party s victory in Tripura is the victory of BJP s ideology because it was the citadel of Left since the last 25 years. We will have to maintain this winning streak by working hard Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar quoted Modi as having said in the meeting. 2. The CPI(M) charged the BJP with unleashing a reign of terror on Left workers in Tripura and sought the immediate intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in bringing the violence to an end before the situation worsened . In a memorandum to the prime minister the party claimed the BJP had begun attacking Left supporters in the northeastern state immediately after the results of the Assembly polls were declared. We request your immediate intervention to stop these attacks and violence and to maintain peace and normalcy in the state before the situation worsened it said in the memorandum addressed to the prime minister. 3. Mamata slams BJP for razing Lenin statute Sounding a warning to the Bharatiya Janata Party which has taken power in Tripura the Trinamool Congress chief said she would not accept such activities despite having a ideological fight with the Communist Party of India-Marxist. If you feel just because you have come to power you will demolish the statue of Marx Lenin Gandhiji Netaji Swami Vivekananda we won t accept that. I have fought with the CPI-M. We also came to power after 34 years. Please remember our slogan was we want change not revenge . So despite the CPI-M carrying out so much atrocities on us we did not pay them back in the same coin. This is not our nature. Whatever is happening there (Tripura) is not democracy. 4) Swamy defends pulling down of terrorist Lenin s statue in Tripura On Monday a statue of Left icon and Communist leader Vladimir Lenin was also demolished at Belonia town in South Tripura with the help of a bulldozer. BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today defended pulling down of a statue of communist icon Lenin in Tripura saying the late Russian leader was a terrorist and questioned if the statue of such a person could be installed in India. 5) RSS loyalist Biplab to be Tripura s 11th Chief Minister: Biplab Kumar Deb the Chief Minister-designate of Tripura has been a long-time RSS volunteer who is largely credited for the BJP s turnaround in the state elections -- winning 35 out 60 assembly seats and demolishing one of the last citadels of the Left Front in the country. Deb replaced Sudhindra Dasgupta the longest-serving BJP state president in January 2015 after he was handpicked by BJP s Prabhari (central incharge) Sunil Deodhar to lead the party in the state. 6) Section 144 imposed: Section 144 has been imposed in several violence-affected areas of Tripura news agency ANI reported on Tuesday. Section 144 imposed in several violence affected areas in #Tripura pic.twitter.com/bkTJV6QqTN ANI (@ANI) March 6 2018 ALSO READ: Tripura elections: BJP win over Left an ideological victory says Modi Singh asked the Governor and the DGP to check all kinds of violence and ensure peace till a new government was installed in Tripura. ALSO READ: Northeast elections 2018: Why BJP is so desperate to hype its Tripura win 7) BJP blames CPI(M) migrants warns of stern action: On Monday BJP Vice-President Subal Bhowmick said at a press meet that a section of unidentified BJP supporters who have migrated to the party from the CPI(M) were creating unrest in parts of Tripura. Anyone found to be involved in post-poll violence would be immediately expelled and legal action will be initiated against them he said. Bhowmick added that the situation was being closely monitored by the party. He warned that no one would be spared if they were found creating tension in the state. Further he alleged that CPI(M) activists too assaulted 49 BJP supporters 17 of whom had to be hospitalised. ALSO READ: IPFT puts pressure on BJP demands respectable position in Tripura cabinet 8) CPI(M) claims 240 people injured in attacks: On its end the CPI(M) has alleged that supporters and activists of the BJP-Indigenous People s Front of Tripura (BJP-IPFT) alliance were terrorising its workers since the announcement of election results on March 3. The Left party also accused them of burning its party offices. CPI(M) office secretary Haripada Das said over 240 people were injured in attacks on party offices offices of Left trade unions and homes of prominent leaders in the past 48 hours. 9) D Raja says violence not acceptable in democracy: Reacting to the news of vandalism emanating from the state CPI leader D Raja said that he strongly condemned the violence which was not acceptable in a democracy. We are a multi-party democracy some parties win and some lose does not mean they can resort to vandalism and violence like demolition of Lenin statue will take place. Law needs to take its course he said. I strongly condemn this violence this is not acceptable in a democracy. We are a multi party democracy some parties win and some lose does not mean they can resort to vandalism&violence like demolition of Lenin statue will take place. Law needs to take its course: D Raja CPI pic.twitter.com/L3nl0UUgm6 ANI (@ANI) March 6 2018 ALSO READ: Tripura results will not impact Karnataka no Modi wave here: Siddaramaiah 10) PM Modi Amit Shah will take a call on IPFT s demand: Further while answering a question on the IPFT s demand for a separate state for tribals Deb said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP party chief would take a decision on this. BJP President Amit Shah and Prime Minister Modi know how to give right direction to public s suggestion he said. With agency inputs
Conrad Sangma was sworn in as the 12th Chief Minister of Meghalaya today.New Delhi: Conrad Sangma Chief of the National People s Party was sworn-in as the next Chief Minister of Meghalaya. He will not have a deputy BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma announced after Mr Sangma staked claim to form government and received an invite. The Congress which has been in power in the state for the last 10 years was not able to stitch a coalition in time despite emerging as the single largest party.Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP President Amit Shah arrived in Meghalaya today to participate in the swearing-in ceremony of the National People s Party (NPP)-led government in the state Assam BJP leaders said on Monday. Meghalaya threw up a fractured mandate on Saturday with the ruling Congress emerging as the largest party marginally ahead of its rival the NPP an ally of the BJP at the centre and in Manipur. The Congress won 21 seats in the 60-member Assembly making it the single-largest party but it was 10 seats short of an absolute majority. A Lok Sabha member from Tura parliamentary constituency Mr Sangma was the state s youngest Finance Minister in 2008 and was later leader of the opposition in the assembly.Here are the highlights of Conrad Sangma s swearing-in:Mar 06 201811:22 (IST)Rajnath Singh also took to Twitter and congratulated Conrad Sangma after he took oath as the 12th Chief Minister of Meghalaya.Congratulations and my best wishes to Shri Conrad Sangma on being sworn-in as the Chief Minister of Meghalaya. I am confident that he and his team of ministers will put the state back on a development track.- Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh) March 6 2018Mar 06 201811:06 (IST) The National People s Party (NPP) congratulates Conrad Sangma on becoming the Chief Minister of Meghalaya on twitter.The National People s Party congratulates Shri Conrad Sangma on becoming the Chief Minister of #Meghalaya. #MeghalayaElection2018#MeghalayaResults#OneMeghalaya#Shillong#Tura#NorthEastNews#NorthEastIndiapic.twitter.com/eJbnkBiaTC- National People s Party (NPP) (@nppmeghalaya) March 6 2018Mar 06 201811:03 (IST) Visuals of Council of Ministers being sworn-in at oath ceremony in Meghalaya s Shillong. Eleven other ministers also took oath this morning. Mar 06 201810:56 (IST) Sarbananda Sonowal Chief Minister of Assam says We will walk together for our growth. Now it is Congress Mukt bharat. There is no scope for congress now. Mar 06 201810:47 (IST)Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh says that I want to congratulate him. Earlier it was a perception in the country that only congress can only survive.But the recent victory in NE has changed this perception.It is no less than a grand victory. Mar 06 201810:41 (IST) Conrad Sangma takes oath as the 12th chief minister of Meghalaya.Mar 06 201810:38 (IST) The swearing-in ceremony of Meghalaya Chief Minister elect Conrad Sangma and other s begins in Shillong.Mar 06 201810:34 (IST) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP President Amit Shah arrive for the swearing-in ceremony of the National People s Party (NPP)-led government in Meghalaya.Mar 06 201810:04 (IST) Visuals of preparations for the oath taking ceremony of Conrad Sangma from Meghalaya. Mar 06 201807:53 (IST) Conrad Sangma is the youngest son of former Lok Sabha speaker P.A. Sangma and took over the reins of the party after his father s death in 2016. Mar 06 201807:44 (IST)Meghalaya Election Results: Conrad Sangma Backed By BJP Faces First Challenge Before OathMinutes after he picked up his invite from Meghalaya s Raj Bhavan on Sunday to take oath as Chief Minister on Tuesday morning Conrad Sangma had admitted that it wasn t going to be easy running a coalition government. itemprop= descriptionNo more content CommentsClose X

ALSO READ No NPA during PM Modi s rule: BJP Slogan Congress Mukt Bharat never aimed at one party: PM Modi PM hails state BJP for rising vote share in Bengal bypoll Rajasthan MLA attacks Modi hints at new party Rajasthan BJP to woo people for PM s rally with yellow rice span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said not a single loan given under Prime Minister Narendra Modi s rule has become a non-performing asset (NPA).Addressing a press conference here Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said These days the Congress has been asking too many questions about the NPAs. We have categorically said that not a single loan given under our rule has become NPA. Presenting figures the Union Minister further stated that the NPAs increased manifold under the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. In 2008 the total advance given by the banks was Rs. 18.6 lakh crore. During the subsequent six-year rule of the UPA till March 2014 it rose to Rs. 52.15 lakh crore. Out of these advances 36 percent loans were identified as stressed assets. Now the stressed asset has risen to 82 percent out of that advances made in the UPA government Prasad said. There was one economist prime minister (Dr. Manmohan Singh) and one super economist was his finance minister (P. Chidambaram). The truth is that on the one hand there was no NPA during Prime Minister Modi s rule; and on the other hand advances increased but did not reflect in records under the UPA rule. As a result the stressed asset of 36 percent actually became 82 percent Prasad added.He also said that entire banking system in India went haywire under former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh s rule due to all kinds of interference in it. The BJP would like to say with a full sense of responsibility that under the so-called economist Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh the entire banking system was completely sought to be derailed because of interventions patronage and pressure Prasad said.The Union Minister said since Modi government came to power in 2014 the politics of confusion fear and concoction is the basis of the Congress campaign against it.(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
The Narendra Modi government s procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France under a deal in 2016 is actually cheaper than the one negotiated by the previous UPA government top government sources told The Indian Express. The report quoted sources as saying that the Rs 526 crore or approximately Euro 79 million per aircraft which the http://www.magcloud.com/user/kkmyntra Opposition has been talking about is actually based on Rafale s 2007 bid at the then exchange rate. File image of a Rafale fighter jet. Wikimedia Commons Alleging a scam the Congress has been asking the government whether the per aircraft price of Rafale according to international bids opened on 12 December 2012 comes to 80.95 million (Rs 526.1 crore) as against the Modi government s per aircraft negotiated price of 241.66 Million (Rs 1 570.8 crore) as per current exchange rates. The UPA government floated a tender in 2007 for purchase of 126 MMRCA for the Air Force and post negotiations two of them Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon remained in the reckoning. However the deal could not be finalised by the UPA regime. Asked why NDA government did not go for Eurofighter Typhoon as it had offered a 25 percent price cut the sources said several European countries were involved in manufacturing of Eurofighter and France was preferred for the inter-governmental deal. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had also retaliated to the Congress allegations and said that the party was looking for a scam every day to throw mud on the corruption-free NDA government. The Congress wants to equate their corrupt and scam-hit UPA government with ours. So it is looking for a scam every day. Here we go there is one pick it up and throw mud and it is for us to keep wiping it and saying we are clean. I am sorry it is somewhat not so responsible way in which you want to criticise the government she had said. Sitharaman had also said there was no controversy over the Rafale deal as there was no deal under the UPA government. Let s get this out of our system that they (UPA government) had the deal and it was much better. Where was the deal under the UPA? There was just no deal. With inputs from PTI

Prime Minister Narendra Modi woos Karnataka

MYSURU: Attacking the Congress government in Karnataka as a commission government Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the welfare of the people was never a priority for it and the state needs a mission government under the BJP to ensure all round development. As long as there is a Congress government in Karnataka the state cannot progress. Karnataka does not require a commission government but a mission government led by the BJP which will ensure all-round progress of the state. Congress has ruined the state and people will teach them a lesson http://wlodb.com/users/192293 in these elections he said addressing a public meeting here after dedicating various railway projects. Assembly elections are due in Karnataka in a few months. The Prime Minister claimed that despite the Congress ruling the country for over 50 years 4 crore families in the country are without power. For over fifty years it was only one party that ruled the country. What is the reason that about 4 crore families still lack power supply? Why have they not ensured their well-being for all these years he asked adding that the country can never repose faith in the Congress. He said wherever the Congress ruled in the country it tried to hamper the development of that state. Over the years several schemes were discussed and debated in Parliament but never implemented on the ground. When we came to power we identified them and initiated work on such projects he said. The Prime Minister said that creating a railway system which is modern and technologically advanced is vital. We are strengthening the railway networks across the country. Karnataka too is benefiting from it.
Bengaluru: The assembly elections in Karnataka barely months away the BJP has started a high-profile campaign in the state spear-headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah. On Sunday as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in the national capital PM Modi had landed in Chief Minister Siddarmaiah s home turf Mysuru with a number of engagements. Before he left on Monday Amit Shah landed in the state for a two-day visit.Mr Shah has a long to-do list - including chairing party meetings addressing students and visits to temples. But its highlight is expected to be a meeting with the family of Deepak Rao a BJP worker who was murdered at Surathkal in last month. The visit is meant to underscore the party s claims that in the recent years more than 20 of its workers and those of its ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh have been murdered in the state. Karnataka is the only state in the south where the BJP had been in power and it is going all-out to wrest the state from the Congress in the coming assembly elections. The party has pitched the lack of law and order enforcement as one of its key allegations against the Congress.Earlier this month at a rally in Bengaluru PM Modi had attacked the Siddaramaiah government saying Karnataka is becoming known for its ease of doing murder . The matter has been raised also by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath who too held a political rally in the state.Mr Siddaramaiah has dismissed the BJP claims citing the crime data from states ruled by the party. It would be good if Modi looked at the top crime stats in the country... Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh are much worse than us the Chief Minister had said.At a function on Monday to flag off a new train PM Modi accused the Congress government of non-performance calling it a government of commission . What do you need? A government of commission or a government of mission? A government which asks for 10 per cent commission to work or a government which works with the mission for development? the Prime Minister said.The Chief Minister responded with a tweet that took a dig at the Central government over the Rs 11 300-crore fraud in the Punjab National Bank linked to celebrity jeweller Nirav Modi. PM @narendramodi makes disparaging comments about certain Mysurians. CommentsClose X Mysuru has produced Tigers who fought the British built a modern state brought land reforms.Some one from Mysuru would never have allowed a fugitive runaway with 11500 cr under his Chowkidari. https://t.co/HW2q7ACNGN Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) February 19 2018Earlier too Mr Siddaramaiah hit back with figures -- countering BJP claims that the state government has swallowed the many grants by the Centre. He also countered allegations on corruption housing and schemes for the poor.
Congress MLA NA Haris son surrendered to the Cubbon Park Police in Bengaluru on Monday two days after he assaulted a man in a restaurant. Mohammed Haris Nalapad who was suspended as the general secretary of the Bengaluru District Youth Congress was remanded in police custody for two days ANI reported.Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President G Parameshwara told reporters on Sunday that Nalapad was suspended from the party for six years. Play Karnataka: Congress MLA NA Haris s son Mohammed Haris Nalapad has surrendered. He is accused of allegedly thrashing a man in a pub in Bengaluru s UB City pic.twitter.com/K2iJiTw8M0 ANI (@ANI) February 19 2018 Nalapad s lawyer B Usman said he was named an accused on the basis of CCTV footage from a pub. He said a Bharatiya Janata Party MP s son was also seen in the footage but was not named an accused.The complainant Praveen Venkatachalaiah said Nalpad picked an argument with his friend Vidvat who had broken his leg four weeks ago and had stretched his leg out because he could not move it. The Congress leader got angry and asked Vidvat to apologise for stretching his leg out. When Vidvat refused an argument ensued and soon after Nalapad and his supporters started beating him up Venkatachalaiah said.Nalapad and his supporters are believed to have also visited Vidvat at the hospital and warned him against filing a complaint.Meanwhile BJP workers protested outside Cubbon Park Police Station in Bengaluru demanding that Nalapad be booked for attempt to murder. They also demanded Haris s resignation. The police had to baton-charge the protestors to bring the situation under control.#BIGNEWS: #Congress and #BJP workers clash outside Cubbon Park police station. Police lathicharge agitators to bring situation under control. BJP workers demand resignation of Cong MLA @naharisblr. pic.twitter.com/VUCZXoyXs8 NEWS9 (@NEWS9TWEETS) February 19 2018
BENGALURU: Congress plans to woo young voters who have been staunch supporters of PM Modi ahead of the forthcoming assembly polls. We are showcasing the youth leadership and telling them we want to listen to your aspirations and work with you to achieve them agriculture minister Krishna Byre Gowda told ET. The outreach called Nanna Karnataka (My Karnataka) with about 500 students drawn from colleges who don t belong to the Congress youth or student wings is to be launched in Bengaluru on Tuesday just a day after Mohammad Nalapad Harris the son of Congress MLA NA Harris was arrested for assaulting another youth. Nalapad has been expelled for six years and the state government has come down harshly on the police who delayed in arresting him. The timing is a bit off but we are ready to take questions on the issue. We genuinely want to listen to what the youth have to say and what they want from the government he added. Unlike BJP which regularly holds youth interactions and discussions this is the first time the Congress is directly reaching out to youth across class gender and caste. We will be hold about 100 town-hall meetings with people aged between 17 and 27. Ten young Congress leaders will interact with them take questions share their thoughts former state Youth Congress president and MLC Rizwan Arshad told ET. Congress stands for what youngsters want. Youngsters are inclusive progressive.
If potholes in Bengaluru won t kill you a politician s son will. That s the takeaway from the ghastly incident that took place at Farzi Café at UB Mall on Saturday in which Congress MLA from Shanti Nagar constituency in central Bengaluru NA Haris son Mohammed Haris Nalapad and his gang of goons assaulted Vidwath. They however did not stop with the vulgar display of muscle power at the café. They even landed up at the hospital where Vidwath was admitted to threaten him again. The injuries on the 24-year-old were so severe that it is a miracle he is still alive. The video of a badly injured Vidwath will leave you upset disturbed and angry. And it is important for voters of Shanti Nagar the rest of Bengaluru and Karnataka to retain that anger when they go to vote to elect their new MLAs a couple of months from now. For this episode is a testimony to the arrogance of power the tu jaanta nahin mera baap kaun hai syndrome that so far the civil Bengaluru thought was exclusively a Delhi trait. FIle image of Mohammed Haris Nalapad. News18 And pray what was Vidwath s crime that invited Nalapad s wrath? When Nalapad walked into the cafe Vidwath had his leg stretched out because he was recovering from a fracture. The body language irked Mohammed and a fracas ensued. Why have we come to this pass? Because in states across India sons have emerged as extra-constitutional authorities in the peshis of their politician fathers. Check any big or small-ticket neta in India and in 9 out of 10 cases you would find he reposes his trust in his blood. Unelected and unanswerable these spoilt brats function as access control to their fathers. This is like a probation period for them and depending on how well one can be a conduit for shady financial deals arrange for funds at short notice use money power and muscle power effectively they move from being a quasi neta to a full-fledged politician. In this case Nalapad had proven his worth which is why he was rewarded with the post of the general secretary of the Bengaluru unit of Youth Congress. What makes it even more galling is that Nalapad is known to throw his weight around in the commercial establishments that dot his father s constituency. Yet at no stage his MLA father seems to have thought it necessary to rein him in and told him not to cross the line. The episode shows the Bengaluru police in poor light as well. Vidwath s friend Ramesh Gowda alleged that the Cubbon Park Police Station officer made them wait four hours before they registered the FIR. Clearly an attempt to hush up the matter or trying to take instructions from the political higher-ups on how to deal with the case. The Cubbon Park police inspector was subsequently suspended for dereliction of duty and the ACP shunted out. On Monday morning Nalapad was allowed the privilege of surrendering before the Cubbon Park Police Station instead of being arrested and dragged into the Cubbon Park Police Station. This even as several of Haris supporters had gathered outside the police station in a show of strength. The optics were telling and the suspicion obviously is that Nalapad will be treated with kid gloves by a police force wary of inviting the wrath of the politically powerful. What it shows is that it s not enough for Bengaluru cops to be a Twitter-friendly police force that makes its presence felt on social media or brags about having 8 69 000 followers on the microblogging website. What matter is how the cops at the local thana behave. The Congress under pressure from the media decided to expel Nalapad from the party. The chief minister realising Nalapad was a political hot potato emphasised that offenders will be punished regardless of who they are. Well done! However one wonders if the party would have done the same if Karnataka was not going to polls in a couple of months. And why shouldn t Haris be held answerable for his son s criminal conduct? At the end of the day the MLA is Nalapad s calling card. The doubt over whether the case will be given a quiet burial in due course of time arises because simultaneously a sob narrative is being built with the Congress claiming that it is a case of a father whose son has gone astray. There is whataboutery also at work with the ruling party asking why no action was taken by BJP against its MP Anant Kumar Hegde who had assaulted a doctor at Sirsi in 2017. The BJP which is taking Congress to the cleaners over the Nalapad issue is a hypocrite because a few months after the Sirsi incident in September Hegde was inducted into the Union Cabinet. As far as the common man in Karnataka is concerned it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. During its election campaign BJP has also been focusing on lawlessness in Karnataka. But instead of talking of citizens it emphasises on the killing of 24 Hindus who it claims were all Sangh Parivar activists. Who pray is to talk of common citizens like Vidwath? Just last week the Cauvery verdict meant Congress could trumpet its success in getting more drinking water for Bengaluru. That achievement has been washed away by Haris junior s show of hooliganism. What Congress has done is expose a goon in a neta s attire and that a common man may dare to confront them at the risk of losing his life and limb. You need to only look at Vidwath s photographs on the hospital bed for a reality check. Ironically this election is seeing scores of sons and daughters of senior Congress leaders demanding a ticket to contest the election. The son-rise may well happen in many families in Karnataka. And if there are more Nalapads in Karnataka the citizen in the state faces the risk of being eclipsed.
Amit Shah was received by BJP lawmaker Nalin Kumar Kateel at the Mangaluru airport BJP president Amit Shah is in Karnataka as part of the party s election campaign for the upcoming assembly election in the state. After arriving in Mangaluru last evening he addressed a small public meeting near the airport. He will start the day with a visit to the Kukke Subramanya temple before he inaugurates Nava Shakthi Samavesh at Sullia. Later he will address students at Vivekananda Institutions in Puttur on the role of the youth in building a New India .Amit Shah will also visit the family of BJP worker Deepak Rao a BJP worker who was murdered last month. After a press conference at Surathkal Mr Shah will attend the Fishermen Convention at Malpe before heading to the Sri Krishna Matt.Elections are due in Karnataka in a few months. BJP in an attempt to consolidate its presence in the south has launched a rigorous campaign in the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Karnataka on Monday to flag off a new train and address voters.Here are the LIVE updates of Amit Shah s Karnataka visit:Feb 20 201808:59 (IST)Amit Shah s Karnataka schedule for today. No more content CommentsClose X
MANGALURU: President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday approved the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Karnataka Amendment) Bill making Kambala a legal rural sport in Karnataka. Karnataka government had promulgated Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Karnataka Amendment) Ordinance 2017 on July 20 last year after getting the approval from the then President Pranab Mukherjee on July 3. Union minister for statistics and programme implementation D V Sadananda Gowda said that the President has approved the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Karnataka Amendment) Bill 2018. I express gratitude to the Honourable President for signing the Bill pertaining to kambala which is a folk sport of the coast. With this all apprehensions and obstacles that were preventing kambala have been cleared. A circular in this regard has already been sent to the state government. Thanks to all who strived for the success stated Gowda in a tweet. It may be recalled that the Supreme Court had refused to grant an interim stay on kambala after hearing a petition filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on February 12. A bench comprising A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud however had fixed March 12 for a final hearing on the plea by animal rights body PETA in the matter. PETA has opposed the upcoming Kambala festival on grounds of cruelty to animals. Kambala Academy president Gunapala Kadamba told TOI that the approval of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Karnataka Amendment) Bill has increased the responsibility of kambala patrons and fans in the coastal districts. The Bill in no way promotes any kind of cruelty to animals. We need to be more responsible and will have to strive to protect the traditional kambala which is a part of agriculture and worship. In the meantime a scientific study also needs to be conducted on various aspects of kambala and buffaloes used in the traditional sport he added. Kambala events of the season are yet to be held at Uppinangady Bangadi Kakkepadavu and Talappady in the coastal region. The season was commenced with the 15th annual Kambala organised by the Koti-Chennaya Jodu Kare Kamabala Samiti at Ontikere in Moodabidri on https://armorgames.com/user/kkmyntra November 11 2017. Kambala fans had celebrated a Vijayotsava following the promulgation of The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Karnataka Amendment) Ordinance 2017 by the state government then. Later events were held at various places in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts.
Bengaluru Candidates of political parties and independents who will be contesting the upcoming Karnataka legislative assembly election have to disclose the sources of their income and assets as directed by the Supreme Court state Chief Electoral Officer Sanjiv Kumar said. All candidates contesting in the upcoming state assembly election will have to disclose the sources of their income and assets along with that of their spouses and dependents in their nomination papers as mandated by the Supreme Court the poll official told IANS here. The 15th assembly elections in Karnataka are due in April-May. A division bench of the apex court headed by Justices J. Chelameshwar and S. Abdul Nazeer on Friday directed the Election Commission to make disclosure of the source of income and assets of candidates contesting elections mandatory.

Narendra Modi to address rally in Mysuru, Siddaramaiah's home district, today

HYDERABAD: India is the hotspot of digital innovation across sectors and stands on the cusp of the fourth industrial revolution with new-age technologies which are disruptive in nature and poised to have a deep impact on the way we live and work said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday while flagging off 22nd edition of World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) 2018. This is the first such IT congress to be held in India. He urged the gathering of over 2 000 top global IT honchos and professionals who converged in the city for the three-day WCIT and 26th edition of the Nasscom India Leadership Forum (NILF) to reflect on changing nature of jobs in the emerging age of intelligent automation. Modi stressed on the importance of skilling citizens for the workplace of the future. Disruptive technologies such as Blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT) will have a deep impact on the way we live and work and require rapid adaptation in our workplaces he said. https://www.udemy.com/user/robert-vadra/ Nasscom India Leadership Forum (NILF) to reflect on changing nature of jobs in the emerging age of intelligent automation. Modi stressed on the importance of skilling citizens for the workplace of the future. Disruptive technologies Startups key to finding economic solutions Modi who kicked off the joint WCIT-NILF 2018 inaugural session via video-conferencing and remotely unveiled Nasscom s skill development platform FutureSkills said while India launched the National Skill Development Mission to prepare its children and youth for a bright future it also needs to ensure that existing workforce is able to re-skill as new technologies emerge. Pointing out that India has a rising number of innovative entrepreneurs and a growing market for tech innovation he said: We believe our startups are the key to finding viable and economical solutions across sectors and verticals. India is best placed to leverage power of technology and leap-frog into the future while empowering every citizen. We were and we remain one of the most tech-friendly populations in the world with over one lakh villages linked with optical fibre 121 crore mobile phones 120 crore Aadhaar and 50 crore internet users. We have successfully completed this life-cycle in last three-and-half years. Attributing this success to the government s Digital India programme he said Digital India is a journey ushering digital inclusion for digital empowerment aided by digital infrastructure for digital delivery of services. Leveraging technology in such a holistic manner was unthinkable few years ago. This has been possible through a change in public behaviour and processes. Digital India has not remained merely a government initiative but has become a way of life. Technology transcended power-point presentations and become an inseparable part of people s lives. While most government initiatives depend on a government push Digital India is succeeding because of the people s pull he said. Dwelling at length on his government s tech push he spoke about how the JAM trinity of combining 320 million Jan Dhan bank accounts of poor with Aadhaar and mobile with direct benefits of welfare measures had saved 57 000 crore how around 22 million digital hospital transactions across 172 hospitals in India were bringing comfort in lives of patients and National Scholarship Portal for easy scholarships today had 14 million students registered on it. Digital payments through BHIMUPI has registered transactions of 15 000 crore in January 2018. The unique Umang app launched only three months back is already offering 185 government services he said. On the Pradhan Mantri Rural Digital Literacy Mission launched to ensure digital literacy in every household by making 60 million adults digitally literate in rural India he said 10 million people have already been trained.
Mysuru: Attacking the Congress government in Karnataka as a commission government Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the welfare of the people was never its priority and the state needs a government with mission under the BJP to ensure all-round development.Addressing a public rally in the city the prime minister said as long as there was a Congress government in Karnataka the state could not progress.Repeating his comment made earlier this month in Bengaluru where he had said that the Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka worked for 10 per cent commission Modi said: You have a choice to elect a party (BJP) which runs a government with a definite mission and reject a party (Congress) that works only for commission. Karnataka does not require a commission government but a mission government led by the BJP which will ensure all-round progress of the state. Congress has ruined the state and people will teach them a lesson in the elections he said speaking at the Maharaja College ground in the city after dedicating various railway projects.Assembly election is due in the state in late April or early May. Every day a new scam new corruption charges and new allegations are cropping up against their leaders and ministers or those related to government schemes. The Congress leaders spread lies and repeat them believing that the people would believe them. But the people are wiser and they never accept such lies for long noted PM Modi.Lamenting the lack of development in the states where the Congress was in power PM Modi said the grand old party would act like a bump on the path to speedy progress.Although the central government provided funds to the state the Congress government could not utilize them on development projects he said.The prime minister claimed that despite the Congress ruling the country for over half-a-century four crore families in the country were without power. For over 50 years it was only one party that ruled the country. What is the reason that about four crore families still lack power supply? Why they did not ensure their well-being all these years he asked adding that the country could never repose faith in the Congress. Over the years several schemes were discussed and debated in Parliament but never implemented on the ground. When we came to power we identified them and initiated work on such projects he stressed. CommentsClose X According to the prime minister creating a railway system which is modern and technologically advanced is vital. We are strengthening the railway networks across the country. Karnataka too is benefiting from it. The party s state leaders like B S Yeddyurappa and central ministers Piyush Goel Prakash Javdekar Ananth Kumar and D V Sadananada Gowda attended the rally and felicitated PM Modi with the famous Mysore peta (headgear).
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday sharpened its attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi dubbing him Maun Modi (silent Modi) for his continued silence on issues critical to the country and alleged that raids by agencies in the bank scam are a mere eyewash to befool the public. Leading the attack was Congress president Rahul Gandhi who fired yet another salvo at the prime minister over his silence on the multi-crore PNB bank fraud asking where the country s watchman was when jeweller Nirav Modi fled the country like liquor baron Vijay Mallya. Gandhi took the swipe at the prime minister for his refrain during poll rallies that he would act as a watchman for the country and cited his na khaoonga na khaane doonga (will neither do nor allow anyone to do corruption) statement. File image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. AP The Congress chief said the entire country was keen to know the secret behind his silence and alleged that it screams out loud where his loyalties were. First Lalit (Modi) and then (Vijay) Mallya now Nirav (Modi) also fled the country. Where is the country s watchman who claimed Na khaoonga na khaane doonga (Will neither do nor allow anyone to do corruption)? The public is longing to know the reason of saheb s silence. His silence screams out loud who is he loyal to? he asked in a tweet in Hindi. पहले लल त फ र म ल्य अब न रव भ हुआ फर र कह ँ है न ख ऊँग न ख ने दूँग कहने व ल देश क च क द र? स हेब क ख म श क र ज़ ज नने क जनत बेकर र उनक चुप्प च ख च ख कर बत ए व क सके हैं वफ द र#ModiRobsIndia Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) February 19 2018 The Congress on its official website also dubbed Modi as Maun Modi a term used by the BJP against former prime minister Manmohan Singh for his silence on various scams during the UPA Government. Congres spokesperson Manish Tewari said the government should tell who facilitated the escape of accused designer jeweller Nirav Modi and his partner Mehul Choksi despite a court order declaring Choksi as an absconder and a proclaimed offender. He said fresh revelations have come in the matter and the court of chief judicial magistrate had on 4 August 2017 declared Mehul Choksi the managing director of Gitanjali Jewellery and Vipul Chaitalia the company s authorised signatory as a proclaimed offender and absconding . How was this man allowed to leave the country? The question arises that how can a person who is a declared proclaimed an offender and an absconder by a court of law be allowed to leave the country and we would like to ask the NDA-BJP Government. We would like to ask the prime minister of India and the finance minister of India that who facilitated the exit of this man from the country despite the order of a competent court which brings us to certain other questions that we would like to ask he told reporters. The Congress asked on Twitter Is it too much to expect Maun Modi who had promised to be the chowkidar of the nation to speak one word on this systematic loot of the banking system? In an article headlined Maun Modi: The Art of Silence the Congress said the age-old proverb Silence is golden has caught the fancy of the verbose Prime Minister while the nation ponders over the reasons behind his reticence. PM Modi has mastered the art of remaining silent while scam after scam hits the nation. He possibly believes that his silence will help distract the nation. #MaunModihttps://t.co/mEPHzKUOvw Congress (@INCIndia) February 19 2018 What could explain this? When the country s biggest banking scam hit the airwaves Narendra Modi was found passing on unsolicited tips to students on how to cope with exam stress inaugurating the swanky new headquarters of BJP and holding forth on artificial intelligence. It looks like the chowkidar of the nation s wealth has abdicated all responsibility moral and otherwise it said. Tewari said Modi speaks on everything referring himself as chowkidar (watchman) of the country and its pradhan sevak (servant). But we would like him to answer some questions on issues that are critical and the country is demanding answers the Congress leader said. Tewari demanded that the government issue a white paper on the health of the banking sector and a complete list of all NPAs of banks be published on their website to enable people who have invested money in these banks to know their fiscal health. On the country-wide raids launched by various agencies in the bank scam case he asked Who are they attempting to fool? This is an activity merely for the sake of activity for creating a smoke-screen for trying to give an illusion of action when the horses have already bolted. This activity is merely an eye-wash. It is for the benefit of cameras he alleged. Tewari demanded answers from the prime minister on Amit Shah s son s company the Rafale price at which the aircraft were purchased the purchase of stake by ONGC in Gujarat Petroleum Corporation and on the issue of death of Justice Loya asking why he has not answered questions of the The Congress said Whenever the prime minister speaks it is either to dish out more rhetoric or to badmouth the Congress party or to point towards the past and claim victimhood . The Opposition party also took out a video of Modi sleeping while scamsters like Mallya and Nirav Modi fled. Have you heard of this amazing scheme by the Modi govt to create more billionaires? PM Modi has mastered the art of remaining silent while scam after scam hits the nation. He possibly believes that his silence will help distract the nation the party said.
CHENNAI : Prime Minister Narendra Modi likely to visit Chennai to launch the AIADMK government s Amma scooter scheme on February 24 former chief minister J Jayalalithaa s birth anniversary. The event is being held at a time when a couple of important high court verdicts are set to be delivered by the Madras HC. The PM s interest in the state s welfare will be on display at Kalaivanar Arangam in Chennai when the scheme will be officially launched. Modi s visit assumes significance as the HC is expected to come out with a ruling in the case of disqualification of 18 MLAs by the Tamil Nadu assembly speaker. The fate of the one-year-old Edappadi K Palaniswami government hinges on the outcome of the case. Highly placed sources told TOI that the state government officially invited Modi a few days ago for the event and the PMO confirmed participation on Monday morning. PM advised me on merger due to his affection for Jaya A senior minister who wished to remain anonymous said A tentative schedule has been received by the government. Modi who will be attending Auroville s 50th anniversary celebrations and a public meeting in Puducherry on February 25 has agreed to participate in the TN government event in Chennai to be held the previous day. The function will be held at Kalaivanar Arangam at 5.30pm. Meanwhile on Monday deputy CM O Panneerselvam sought to clarify that Modi had asked him to join hands with EPS to save the government. During my visit to New Delhi Modi asked me about T T V Dhinakaran s attempt to topple the government with the help of 18 MLAs. When I consulted him about joining hands (merging with the EPS faction) he said it will be good. It reflects the goodwill he has for us the deputy CM told reporters in Madurai. When parties want to benefit out of creating divisions Modi has offered advice because of his affection towards the former chief minister. There is no hidden agenda and it only shows his magnanimity Panneerselvam said. His rival Dhinakaran took a dig at the BJP leadership saying the party was controlling the ruling AIADMK. While the PM s visit is seen as an attempt to put to rest speculations about strain between BJP and the ruling camp AIADMK MP V Maitreyan said the visit by PM was to be seen as a goodwill gesture. He is the PM of the country. This is a programme announced by Amma on her birthday and to inaugurate it on her birthday is a good way of paying obeisance to the departed leader Maitreyan said.
Modi asked me to join hands with Edappadi
Nearly six months after he merged his breakaway faction with the ruling camp of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam (pictured above) said on Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to do so.Modi told him that the two factions should merge to save the party Panneerselvam claimed according to ANI. I agreed but said that I will not become a minister and will only take a party position he said. Modi however did not agree and told him to continue with politics . That is why I am a minister today the deputy chief minister said. I don t want to be a minister The Hindu quoted him as saying. Amma former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa had made me an MLA four times and chief minister twice. I can live with that pride. In August 2017 the two factions of the AIADMK announced their merger after months of political drama that followed Jayalalithaa s death in December 2016. The announcement was made by O Panneerselvam and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami the leaders of the two camps. After the merger Panneerselvam became the deputy chief minister and got the finance ministry portfolio.The problems I faced harassment I faced was limitless. If anybody else would have been in my place he would have committed suicide. I faced it all only because of Amma: O Panneerselvam Deputy CM Tamil Nadu pic.twitter.com/XbhHOAloQ9 ANI (@ANI) February 17 2018
Let me stick my neck out to make a prediction. Tamil Nadu can brace itself for a sequel to Dharmayuddham (Holy war) a pompous title that O Panneerselvam chose for his revolt against VK Sasikala in February last year. Expect the footfalls at Jayalalithaa s samadhi at Marina beach in Chennai also to go up with Panneerselvam s utterances an indication that he wants to launch Dharmayuddham 2.0. On Friday the day Tamil Nadu was unhappy with the Supreme Court verdict that reduced its share of Cauvery water by 14.75 TMC feet OPS chose to talk politics in his backyard of Theni. But while he continued to harp on his erstwhile position as a trusted minister of Jayalalithaa and on his dislike for Sasikala he bowled a googly by revealing Narendra Modi s hand in the merger of the two AIADMK factions last year. OPS quoted an anecdote reportedly related to him by the Prime Minister to pat himself on the back. The prime minister told me that when he came to Chennai Amma had invited him for a meal. He told me that Amma said a lot of things to me about you and that I should take charge to protect the party OPS quoted Modi as saying. File image of O Panneerselvam. PTI Having established that Jayalalithaa held him in high esteem OPS then went on to showcase his monk-like attitude to positions of power. I said okay but explained to him that I did not want a minister s position and that just a party role would do. He said No no you have to take up a minister s role and be part of the government. It is because of this that I took up the minister s position. I told the other ministers about this who said I should not say no to him. That is why I am a minister today. Not because I have the desire to be a minister. Amma made me chief minister twice. That honour is enough for me said OPS who is now deputy chief minister in the Tamil Nadu government. Even though the BJP indulging in backseat driving in Tamil Nadu is the worst kept secret in Chennai party spokespersons have repeatedly denied playing any role in facilitating the AIADMK merger. This assertion by OPS shows they were either lying all along or were completely ignorant of the moves of their party bosses in New Delhi. But the important question is why did the usually reticent OPS decide to reveal this critical detail now exposing the prime minister s advisory role. It is not as if he does not know that it will embarrass the BJP as a party with no MLAs in the Tamil Nadu assembly and less than 3 percent vote share in the 2016 elections. By invoking Modi and highlighting the prime minister s friendship with Jayalalithaa OPS is making two things clear. One that contrary to the perception that he hankered after power and therefore waved the white flag with EPS he did so only when compelled by Modi. Two OPS is sending across the message to EPS that not only he was Amma s chosen one but he also has New Delhi s blessings. This is possibly a precursor to OPS moving closer to the BJP in Tamil Nadu expecting that the AIADMK government s days are numbered. Ahead of the elections the grand plan could possibly be to create a rainbow coalition of Rajinikanth BJP and the OPS faction of the AIADMK. OPS also targeted Sasikala and her family accusing them of trying to ensure his defeat in the 2016 elections. It was his attack on Sasikala that gained him traction a year ago and elevated his stature from that of a permanent nightwatchman under Jayalalithaa to someone who had a spine to protest. A year later OPS is falling back on the same formula to raise his political stature. What do his statements in Theni indicate about the goings-on in the AIADMK? Sources say AIADMK senior leaders are on tenterhooks with the impending judgment of the Madras High Court in the case relating to the disqualification of 18 MLAs belonging to the TTV Dhinakaran camp. If the Speaker s decision disqualifying the MLAs is upheld it will push the government into a minority. Tamil Nadu is also abuzz with rumours of EPS reaching out to Sasikala s Mannargudi family asking it to back him while keeping Dhinakaran out. While the possibility of it happening is very remote sources say OPS is feeling marginalised within the party power structure and fears he could be the fall guy in case EPS strikes a deal with his former friends. The Mannargudi clan has never forgiven OPS for backstabbing Sasikala. Why would EPS strike a deal with Sasikala when he knows it won t amuse the BJP? In Tamil Nadu given the state s aversion to the Hindi and Hindutva template of the BJP Palaniswami has realised that being seen as remote controlled by the BJP is not helping his political equity. He is already witness to Dhinakaran MK Stalin and Kamal Haasan trying to occupy the anti-BJP space that because of the fellow traveller arrangement overlaps with the anti-AIADMK space. The question however is whether a second OPS revolt will have any credibility. The latest revelations are a move by Panneerselvam to capture the rebel space once again.
Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi s session with students preparing for exams Pariksha Par Charcha on February 16 schools have been asked to submit photo or video proof that students watched the national telecast of the PM s counselling. Sources said the HRD ministry instructed all state governments to compile reports soon after the PM s interaction. The state governments in turn had sent out instructions to all schools regardless of the boards to provide details of students who watched the speech as well as submit photographs or videos of their participation http://www.basenotes.net/members/26231165-kkclear. Schools across the country received circulars from their respective state education departments to submit the evidence by February 19. Circulars issued by various district chief education officers also included a form which sought details of the total number of schools enrolment figures number of schools where students viewed or heard the telecast number of students who viewed it through television or radio or web streaming on the websites of the PMO MHRD Doordarshan MyGov.in and through internet channels. A senior HRD official said The ministry has not asked for any report on participation of schools in the event. It was a routine feedback where no mandatory clause was given. A senior HRD official said that it has been a practice for states or autonomous bodies like KVS and CBSE to submit their feedback for events like the PM s recent session with students Pariksha Par Charcha . No evidence was sought the official said. The chief education officers in Tamil Nadu however confirmed to TOI that they had received instructions from the HRD ministry to send out the forms to all schools in the state.

Donald Trump's medical exam – full transcript

Donald Trump Donald Trump s scientific exam full transcript Read what Dr Ronny Jackson stated about america president s health after his first test-up White House medical doctor: Trump will remain match for obligation for years Take the Trump test: are you fit to be president? Wed 17 Jan 2018 08.39 GMT Last changed on Wed 17 Jan 2018 22.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share thru Email View more sharing alternatives Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Google Share on WhatsApp Share on Messenger Close Donald Trump shakes arms with Dr Ronny Jackson. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Good afternoon each person. All proper so to start with what I m going to do is I m going to read to you the precis of the president s physical. And so I ll simply study via this after which once I m accomplished reading this immediately after the brief we ll make this available to everybody exactly as I read it right here. And then I ll take a few questions. So to start with: President Donald J Trump has finished his first periodic physical examination as president of the USA. I achieved and supervised the exam with suitable area of expertise consultations and diagnostic trying out. The examination was conducted January 12 2018 on the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The motive of the examination changed into to provide the general public with an update of the president s modern health reputation and to ensure the president continues to enjoy all of the blessings of suitable health. This exam targeted on proof-based fitness screening and ailment prevention. With President Trump s consent I release the subsequent fitness facts. Vitals as follows: Age 71 years and 7 months on the time of the examination. Height 75 inches. Weight 239 kilos. Resting heart charge sixty eight. Blood stress 122/seventy four. Pulse oximetry ninety nine% on room air. Temperature was ninety eight.4. Physical exam through device to encompass any research that were accomplished by using gadget: Eyes The president s uncorrected bodily acuity is 20/30 bilaterally with corrected visual acuity of 20/20 bilaterally. His visible fields have been normal. Funduscopic examination changed into regular bilaterally. His intraocular pressures were everyday and no ocular pathology become discovered. Head ears nose and throat Normal exam of the top ears nose mouth and throat. Dental exam He has healthy enamel and gums. There had been no other dental findings. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump has healthful teeth and gums the scientific exam discovered. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP Neck Normal thyroid exam. No stated lymphadenopathy. Auscultation of his carotid arteries have been everyday. Pulmonary exam His lungs had been clear to auscultation. A screening low-dose CT of the chest proven no pulmonary pathology. Cardiac examination Heart examination turned into regular. Regular rhythm. No murmurs or different bizarre heart sounds were noted. His ECG or typically EKG become regular sinus rhythm with a rate of 71 had a http://theunitypoint.org/members/kkjabong/  regular axis and no other widespread findings. He had a transthoracic echocardiogram performed which tested everyday left ventricular systolic characteristic an ejected fraction of 60 to sixty five% everyday left ventricular chamber length and wall thickness no wall motion abnormalities his proper ventricle became normal his atria had been grossly everyday and all valves had been ordinary. He had an exercising pressure echocardiogram finished which verified above-common workout ability based on age and intercourse and a regular coronary heart fee blood strain and cardiac output reaction to workout. He had no evidence of ischemia and his wall motion became ordinary in all snap shots. Gastrointestinal exam He had a everyday exam no hundreds no hepatomegaly or splenomegaly. He had a ordinary optical colonoscopy executed in 2013 June of 2013 that confirmed no polyps or peculiar findings. And because of that a repeat colonoscopy changed into no longer indicated right now and may be deferred till his subsequent periodic physical exam. Genitourinary exam turned into everyday. Extremities and musculoskeletal ordinary throughout. Full variety of movement in all joints. He had robust distal pulses and suitable capillary top off in all extremities. He had no swelling or edema. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dr Ronny Jackson speaks approximately the president s physical exam at a White House briefing. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA Neurological exam Examination of the cranial nerves cerebellar feature deep tendon reflexes motor function and sensory gadget had been all ordinary. A cognitive screening exam using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment turned into normal with a score of 30 over 30. Dermatologic examination Normal. No evidence of cancer basal mobile carcinoma squamous cell carcinoma or another widespread dermatologic illnesses. I m going to very in short cross over a number of the labs here that I experience are most vital maximum carriers would be interested by after which you can look at the details when I positioned out the written. But laboratory outcomes summarized: a lipid panel. He had a complete cholesterol of 223. Triglycerides of 129. HDL of 67. An LDL ldl cholesterol of 143. And his general cholesterol to HDL ratio is 3.Three. His complete blood rely to encompass his white blood cellular matter his hemoglobin hematocrit and platelet count number have been all everyday. And the values are on the written replica you ll get. His extended metabolic panel as follows: his fasting blood glucose become 89. His BUN was 19. His creatinine changed into 0.Ninety eight; indicators of his renal feature. His liver enzymes: his ALT was 27; his AST was 19 ordinary. His hemoglobin A1c was five%. His diet D changed into 20. His PSA turned into 0.12. And his thyroid display with the TSH turned into 1.Seventy six. He had a urinalysis done that was clear and had no proof of protein ketones glucose or blood. His beyond scientific records consists of hypercholesterolemia and rosacea. His beyond surgical history: had an appendectomy at age 11. His social history He has no beyond or gift use of alcohol. No beyond or gift use of tobacco. His medications He takes Crestor 10 milligrams each day to decrease his ldl cholesterol. He takes aspirin 81 milligrams every day for cardiac health. He takes Propecia 1 milligram day by day for prevention of male-pattern hair loss. He takes Soolantra Cream as wanted for Rosacea. And he's taking a multivitamin each day for health preservation. Immunizations The president at some point of his physical examination had a Prevnar thirteen immunization to save you pneumococcal pneumonia and he had No 2 dose of his Twinrix to save you hepatitis A and B. His ordinary vaccinations to encompass his seasonal influenza are all up to date and all indicated tour vaccinations are up to date. In precis The president s universal health is tremendous. His cardiac performance at some point of his physical exam changed into excellent. He continues to enjoy the massive lengthy-time period cardiac and universal health blessings that come from an entire life of abstinence from tobacco and alcohol. We discussed weight-reduction plan workout and weight loss. He could advantage from a food plan that is decrease in fats and carbohydrates and from a recurring exercising regimen. He has a records of increased ldl cholesterol and is currently on a low dose of Crestor. In order to further lessen his cholesterol stage and in addition decrease his cardiac danger we can growth the dose of this specific medicinal drug. The president is presently up to date on all advocated preventive medication and screening assessments and checks. All scientific records indicates that the president is presently very wholesome and that he will continue to be so throughout his presidency. Topics Donald Trump information Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share through Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Google Share on WhatsApp Share on Messenger Reuse this content material It become a year that started with the President shouting you're fake news at a reporter. And it ended with an offer that faux information didn t definitely depend in any respect. Between those instances the Trump administration has advised a number of falsehoods every so often minor occasionally outright. But greater than that it has been attempting to redefine what even counts as truth contesting clear information to the factor that even data aren t data anymore or as a minimum are some thing in which you can just pick out an alternative. Much as Donald Trump has attempted to suitable the phrase it stands for an essential thread in reporting approximately him: that he appears set on mendacity and discrediting authentic reports. It s seemingly testomony to the energy of the critique that it has turn out to be so discredited as every aspect of the US political divide attempts to win the right to define what counts as the fact. Donald Trump s first 12 months: in pix 15 display all Donald Trump s first year: in images 1/15 Inauguration - 20 January 2017 US President Donald Trump acknowledges the target audience after taking the oath of office as his spouse Melania (L) and daughter Tiffany watch for the duration of inauguration ceremonies swearing in Trump as the 45th president of the USA on the West Front of america capital in Washington on 20 January 2017. Photographer Jim Bourg: This image changed into shot with one in every of two far off cameras. The cameras have been monitored and prompted remotely and the photographs have been transmitted to clients worldwide inside mins of being taken. Reuters/Jim Bourg 2/15 Obama farewell cope with - 10 January 2017 US President Barack Obama wipes away tears as he gives you his farewell cope with in Chicago on 10 January 2017. Photographer Jonathan Ernst: In his final days in office Obama made a visit domestic to Chicago. As he spoke from the degree to his spouse and daughter inside the target audience he became emotional while he mentioned what they had sacrificed during his time in workplace. I turned from photographing the Obama girls embracing to find him onstage wiping away tears. Reuters/Jonathan Ernst three/15 Inauguration - 20 January 2017 A aggregate of pictures shows the crowds attending the inauguration ceremonies to swear in U.S. President Donald Trump at 12:01pm (left) on January 20 2017 and President Barack Obama sometime between 12:07pm and 12:26pm on January 20 2009. Reuters/ Lucas Jackson/Stelios Varias 4/15 Inaugural Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders Reception - 22 January 2017 US President Donald Trump greets Director of the FBI James Comey as Director of the Secret Service Joseph Clancy (L) watches throughout the Inaugural Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders Reception in the Blue Room of the White House on 22 January 2017. Photographer Joshua Roberts: I actually have included the White House for sixteen years and typically either the President or the pool is in function whilst an occasion begins. In this example the President was no longer wherein all and sundry predicted him to be. In reality he became nearly blocking off the door while the pool came in. We had to scramble to discover a function without bumping him or the fixtures as he greeted and thanked contributors of law enforcement for his or her protection efforts at some stage in the inauguration. Luckily he greeted FBI Director James Comey some seconds after the pool had made its manner into the room. Reuters/Joshua Roberts five/15 Private smartphone calls to international leaders - 28 January 2017 US President Donald Trump is joined by his group of workers as he speaks by cellphone with Russia s President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office on 28 January 2017. Photographer Jonathan Ernst: Very early inside the Trump management weekends had been as busy as weekdays. On Trump s 2nd Saturday the reputable schedule said he would be making non-public smartphone calls to some of world leaders together with Russia s Vladimir Putin. I arrived early and before sitting down at my table walked as much as Press Secretary Sean Spicer s office. He too changed into simply taking his coat off. I gingerly made the notion that previous administrations had occasionally allowed pictures of such smartphone calls through the Oval Office windows at the colonnade. To my slight shock he didn t even reflect onconsideration on it twice. We ll do it! He said. In reality I sincerely handiest predicted the Putin call but we were outdoor the home windows a couple of times throughout the day because the calls went on. Reuters/Jonathan Ernst 6/15 a hundred Days - 27 April 2017 US President Donald Trump speaks at some point of an interview with Reuters in the Oval Office of the White House on 27 April 2017. Photographer Carlos Barria: A day earlier than President Trump s hundred days in office I was part of the crew that interviewed the commander-in-chief within the Oval Office. I turned into only allowed to picture Trump over the past five minutes of the interview. The time became very tight so I needed to pass fast as I had pix in thoughts that I wanted to shoot. I walked into the Oval Office and saw that the President had revealed maps of the usa showing areas in red in which he won. I raised my hands protecting my digital camera as high as feasible to get the pleasant view of the scene the usage of a 16mm extensive perspective lens. Reuters/Carlos Barria 7/15 one hundred Days - 27 April 2017 US President Donald Trump reacts as he arrives at Harrisburg global airport before attending a rally marking his first a hundred days in office in Pennsylvania on 29 April 2017. Photographer Carlos Barria: President Trump travelled to Harrisburg Pennsylvania to celebrate his hundred days in workplace with a victory rally. He was in pleasant territory as he won with a massive difference over his opponent Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania at some point of the November elections. As ordinary when the commander-in-chief arrives local residents gather to greet him. This time a small group of army employees attended the arrival. Surrounded with the aid of secret carrier sellers Trump walked from the Air Force One and raised his hand in a signal of victory as the crowd cheered him on. Reuters/Carlos Barria eight/15 White House staffers - 2 May 2017 White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer (L) and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus watch as US President Donald Trump offers the U.S. Air Force Academy football group with the Commander-in-Chief trophy in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on 2 May 2017. Photographer Joshua Roberts: Covering the White House does no longer just suggest covering the President. White House staffers are an important part of the story and their courting with the President and each different is a hallmark of how matters are going in the West Wing. The tendency is to focus exclusively at the President as soon as an occasion starts offevolved however I constantly try and go searching to look how people are reacting as things unfold. Reuters/Joshua Roberts nine/15 Secret Service - 4 May 2017 Secret Service dealers use a presidential limousine as cover from spraying water as US President Donald Trump lands thru Marine One helicopter in New York on four May 2017. Photographer Jonathan Ernst: The first-rate part of any journey to New York City with the sitting US President is the helicopter journey into Manhattan. The experience out at night can be stunning. Here Secret Service retailers guard themselves from the spray from the East River as Trump lands on the helipad. Reuters/Jonathan Ernst 10/15 NATO Summit - 25 May 2017 US President Donald Trump and primary woman Melania Trump wait the appearance of French President Emmanuel Macron (unseen) earlier than a lunch beforehand of a NATO Summit in Brussels on 25 May 2017. Photographer Jonathan Ernst: One of the nice components of travelling distant places for White House coverage is the threat to look the U.S. President in exclusive environments and (actually) a special mild. Here Trump and his spouse got here out of the shadows to greet France s President Macron. Reuters/Jonathan Ernst 11/15 Trump meets Putin at G20 summit - 7 July 2017 US President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at some point of their bilateral assembly at the G20 summit in Hamburg Germany on 7 July 2017. Photographer Carlos Barria: On July 7 I witnessed one of the maximum critical conferences of President Trump s first year in office. Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin at some point of a bilateral assembly on the G20 summit in Germany. The world s eyes were on those leaders after hypothesis approximately Russian interference during the 2016 US elections. We entered the room for much less than two mins where I took dozens of photographs. But there has been this very exciting moment while Trump extended his hand to Putin for a handshake. Putin paused for a 2d and looked at Trump s hand. That became the photo that I was searching out a bit moment that seemed to say lots. Reuters/Carlos Barria 12/15 White House staffers - 25 July 2017 Former marketing campaign manager Corey Lewandowski says hello to journalists as he and White House advisors together with Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci accompany President Trump for an occasion celebrating veterans at AMVETS Post forty four in Ohio July 25 2017. Jonathan Ernst: The most visible character in any White House is evidently the President observed by the press secretary. But there also are the staff who assist them. For those people overlaying the Trump administration there appear to be extra compelling figures within the West Wing than ever before. It s essential to recognize who s who and why they re important. When I raised my camera and again-pedalled ahead of the organization to take this photograph Lewandowski gave me a howdy. I liked the image but had no concept it'd move a touch bit viral specially for the reason that Scaramucci who turned http://www.connectingafrica.com/profile.asp?piddl_userid=515908 into the biggest mover and shaker that week become hidden returned within the percent. But I bet the picture catches a glimpse of what it s like to be a West Wing staffer on the road. Reuters/Jonathan Ernst 13/15 15 September 2017 Donald Trump welcomes eleven-year-antique Frank Giaccio as he cuts the Rose Garden grass on the White House on 15 September. Frank who wrote a letter to Trump providing to mow the lawn was invited to work for a day on the White House along the National Park Service team of workers. Frank was so targeted on his project that he did no longer be aware the President arrive to marvel him. He took his father jumping in to grab his attention and factor Trump out. Photographer Carlos Barria said: The photo of Trump shouting at a child who's mowing his garden may have many interpretations in these days s politically polarized United States. But for me it turned into only a kid who cherished what he became doing to the factor he almost appeared to ignore the President. Reuters/Carlos Barria 14/15 Take a knee - 27 September 2017 A man kneels with a folded U.S. Flag as the motorcade of U.S. President Donald Trump passes him after an occasion on the nation fairgrounds in Indianapolis Indiana U.S. September 27 2017. In September quickly after Trump had made comments condemning NFL gamers who kneel during the countrywide anthem he made an afternoon ride to a rally in Indianapolis. Jonathan Ernst controlled to capture a man on one knee with a tri-folded flag and was able to use a portion of the sign on the building he changed into kneeling in front of to music the person down and inform his tale in full. US Army veteran Marvin Boatright desired to send a message against social injustice. Reuters/Jonathan Ernst 15/15 Air Force One - 10 November 2017 US President Donald Trump forums Air Force One to leave for Vietnam from Beijing Airport in Beijing China November 10 2017. Photographer Jonathan Ernst: There is a Reuters photographer inside the tight pool protecting the United States president for each look he makes three hundred and sixty five days a 12 months. This turned into just one in all 32 pix of mine that were transmitted at the Reuters wire of President Trump touring China and Vietnam that day. You in no way know while a sudden interaction a gust of wind or a unique facial expression will result in a placing photograph that grabs peoples attention. Reuters/Jonathan Ernst Already this month he has posted the phrase faux information to Twitter 10 instances. That covered three on 7 January every of which turned into about a special factor of faux news. It included posts about Mr Trump s most dishonest and corrupt media awards of the year ; various that said that says of collusion with the Russians wasn t actual; and a selection about what he calls the Fake Book or Michael Wolff s bestseller about existence in the White House. Read greater Everything incorrect with Trump s midnight tweet approximately now not coming to UK But it started life as an nearly academic time period used to explain the styles of web sites that dressed fictional testimonies up as news reports and extremely joyful inside the readers that shared their actually incredible reviews. By the time Mr Trump had taken office it became becoming shorthand for an assault not simply on the click but the idea of fact itself. It threatened to undermine civil establishments the press and people that work to oppose it. The term faux information in the beginning commenced with BuzzFeed journalist Craig Silverman. Back then while it have become popular as he explored the media around the US election it didn t appearance some thing like the way Trump makes use of the term now: Mr Silverman used it in his writing approximately the numerous websites many of them worldwide that hosted information articles that seemed actual however had been totally made up. The first ever time that Mr Trump used the phrase on Twitter become on 10 December 2016 lengthy before he had grow to be president or even earlier than the phrase had caught on. Reports by using @CNN that I may be running on The Apprentice in the course of my Presidency even part time are ridiculous

Indias GDP in Q4 grows 6.1%, loses fastest growing economy tag

India s GDP or gross domestic product grew 6.1 in line with cent 12 months-on-year at some stage in the January-March length authorities facts confirmed on Wednesday. With this India loses its repute of the arena s fastest growing economic system. China s GDP grew 6.Nine consistent with cent for the duration of the identical quarter. The GDP boom rate for the overall yr (2016-17 ) got here in at 7.1 in line with cent consistent with professional estimate compared to a revised boom determine of eight in step with cent in FY16. A Reuters ballot of 35 economists had anticipated India s fourth sector GDP increase at 7.1 in keeping with cent. During the previous area (October-December) India s GDP grew at 7 according to cent. Wednesday s GDP statistics that ignored Street expectancies might be a sadness for the Narendra Modi authorities that completed three years at the Centre remaining week. PM Modi s demonetisation power that outlawed high-value foreign money notes last year in November in a bid to curb black money likely had an effect at the GDP numbers analysts stated. Q4 statistics is honestly disappointing and honestly displays a few quantity of extreme impact from demonetisation. Based at the quarterly numbers we will expect a strong observation from the critical bank (RBI) of their next coverage meet Tirthankar Patnaik India strategist Mizuho Bank stated. The Reserve Bank of India s (RBI) economic coverage evaluate is due early next month. Yes Bank s leader economist Shubada Rao additionally felt that demonetisation had a role to play within the decrease than anticipated numbers. The decrease-than-anticipated fourth area GDP variety reflects the lingering impact of demonetisation she stated. During the reporting quarter the agriculture forestry and fishing sectors grew at 5.2 in line with cent; mining and quarrying at 6.4 in keeping with cent; manufacturing at 5.3 per cent; power fuel water supply and different application offerings at 6.1 per cent; change resorts shipping and verbal exchange at 6.5 in step with cent; economic actual property and professional services at 2.2 consistent with cent; and public management defence and other services at 17 in keeping with cent. However the development sector shrank three.7 according to cent. The fourth zone GDP facts become anticipated to get a boost from the revision in the IIP or Index of Industrial Production and WPI or Wholesale Price Index collection to the 2011-12 base. Brokerage company Nirmal Bang anticipated a boost of approximately 20-30 basis factors all through the reporting quarter. The Central Statistical Office (CSO) in advance this month revised IIP and WPI collection changing the base 12 months to 2011-12 from 2004-05. However international scores company Moody s Investors Service on Wednesday said it expects India s GDP to progressively boost up to round 8 in step with cent over the next three to 4 years. The Indian financial system will grow by 7.Five in line with cent at some point of monetary 12 months finishing March 31 2017 (FY17) and seven.7 per cent inside the monetary 12 months 2018 it said. India s largest tax reform considering the fact that independence in 1947 the GST or Goods and Services Tax is also anticipated to make a contribution 2 in line with cent to the united states of america s GDP. GST that objectives to subsume all principal and kingdom taxes can be rolled out across the u . S . On July 1 bringing India beneath a single tax regime. The contribution to GDP will take place eventually and the effect could be weighable via FY18 say economists. Most economists however don t take India s GDP figures at face cost after a alternate in methodology two years returned that transformed a sluggish economic system right into a international-beater in a single day. What is encouraging although is that this year monsoon rains have hit the Kerala coast early raising prospects of a very good https://thoughtforthedayquotes.tumblr.com/ harvest with a view to improve farm incomes. And with government pay hikes additionally in the works the outlook for a sustained restoration seems desirable. However analysts nonetheless fear over India s choppy boom and floor realities. While personal quarter funding continues to be subdued the u . S . S nation banking zone is laden with horrific debts. (With inputs from Reuters) Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi slammed the government on Thursday after India s Gross home product (GDP) slowed sharply to 6.1% in the 3 months finishing March 31. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) became 6.1 in line with within the January-March quarter the immediately 3 months after the demonetisation turned into introduced on November nine 2016. Falling GDP. Rising unemployment. Every other trouble is synthetic to distract us from this essential failure stated Rahul on Twitter. Falling #GDP.Rising #unemployment.Every different trouble is manufactured to distract us from this essential failurehttps://t.Co/Hoq1UF6Uou Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) June 1 2017 Congress chief PL Punia in a sardonic attack stated that the BJP who boasted of an 8 percentage growth have to talk up on the cutting-edge reputation of the country s economic system. ALSO READ India loses fastest developing financial system tag after sharp boom slowdown They have been talking about 8 percentage growth charge. But still the authorities is boasting about itself. I would like to invite the government to keep the real image of the Indian economic system in front of the humans of the nation said Punia. The records released by using the Central Statistics Office (CSO) revealed that the Gross Value Added (GVA) slipped sharply to 6.6 per cent in the last monetary yr ended March 31 from 7.9 per cent boom in 2015-16. The demonetisation seems to have impacted the GVA inside the 0.33 as well as fourth zone of 2016-17 which slipped to 6.7 in step with cent and 5.6 per cent respectively from 7.3 consistent with cent and 8.7 per cent. Almost all sectors with the exception of agriculture confirmed deceleration in the aftermath of demonetisation. Meanwhile Bharatiya Janata Party lauded the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government for the India s GDP. ALSO READ Modi s observe ban drive visible biting into monetary boom: Poll At 7% Q3 GDP boom beats word ban blues manufacturing largest marvel GDP estimates don t component in observe ban impact: TCA Anant Demonetisation and the GDP: The increase conundrum span.P-content div id =div-gpt line-top: 0px; font-length: 0px; India s economic growth fell to six.1 per cent within the fourth region (Q4) of 2016-17 (FY17) in most cases due to demonetisation adversely affecting economic hobby. This was as a minimum a 4-region low. The sectors worst affected had been creation and monetary services. Without indirect taxes boom figures would be more dismal. Gross fee introduced (GVA) the difference among gross home product (GDP) and internet indirect taxes grew with the aid of simplest 5.6 according to cent in Q4 the bottom in at least eight quarters in line with official figures launched on Wednesday.  The impact of demonetisation was glaring in the figures with increase being driven usually through agriculture and authorities spending. In Q4 aside from agriculture and authorities spending GVA grew a trifling 3.Eight in step with cent down from 8.4 consistent with cent in Q1. In FY17 monetary increase changed into at a 3-12 months low of 7.1 in keeping with cent. The preceding 12 months it turned into eight in keeping with cent. Economists now count on the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to change its economic stance even supposing it does no longer reduce the repo rate. The economic coverage committee will meet on June 7. Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian stated demonetisation had a brief effect. According to each the IIP (Index of Industrial Production) and the National Income Accounting facts deceleration has been taking place on account that July he stated. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the banning of the old Rs 500 and Rs 1 000 notes on November eight final 12 months. The discernible effect of the gradual boom was on the private sector. Construction sports gotten smaller 3.7 consistent with cent in Q4 towards 3.Four consistent with cent in Q3. Financial offerings actual property and professional offerings rose 2.2 according to cent against 3.3 per cent in Q3. These sectors are normally strong and sturdy however have been adversely impacted by means of demonetisation stated D K Srivastava of EY. He introduced credit score boom in financial offerings catering to the informal sectors bogged down and the financial system could take at least every other quarter to get over the impact of demonetisation. However Chief Statistician T C A Anant claimed information the effect of the be aware ban become some distance more complicated. Determining how a selected policy from the net of rules affects growth is a complicated undertaking he said. While banks have been flush with budget due to subdued credit score off-take GVA boom of monetary offerings declined stated Devendra Pant chief economist with India Ratings. The finance ministry turned into confident that the economic system would grow by 0.50-zero.Seventy five percentage factors inside the present day economic year as compared to FY17. The projection for subsequent year is genuinely a pickup by means of about half a basis factor. We said relative to this yr it might pick up via about 50-75 foundation factors. The economy have to be picking up CEA Subramanian. GVA increase for the yr changed into 6.6 in keeping with cent also the slowest in 3 years and a tad lower than the second one Advanced Estimate of 6.7 according to cent. For the second one half of the year GVA boom apart from agriculture and authorities spending bogged down to 4.8 consistent with cent down from 7.6 according to cent in the first 1/2. Soumya Kanti Ghosh chief financial consultant State Bank of India said the RBI could now should check the figures. He stated the RBI had claimed the industrial area had recovered in Q4 but the narrative had now changed. Ghosh talked about that production growth rose 10.7 in line with cent in Q1 but fell to 5.Four consistent with cent in Q4. Subramanian stated it turned into up to the RBI to cut hobby costs however the economy could do properly if all the macro aid turned into supplied. The impact of demonetisation on investments become also glaring in gross constant capital formation (GFCF) it fell by 2.1 according to cent in Q4 FY17. Before the word ban GCFC grew three per cent in Q2 and 7.4 in keeping with cent in Q1. Government expenditure then again rose 31.9 according to cent in Q4 FY17; in Q3 it changed into 21 in line with cent. In Q1 and Q2 it became about sixteen.Five consistent with cent. Private consumption expenditure denoting demand grew by 7.Three consistent with cent in Q4 against eleven.1 in line with cent inside the preceding quarter. The bump inside the 0.33 sector became due to vast purchases right antique notes in some sectors. In Q2 it had risen 7.9 per cent and in Q1 8.Four in step with cent. Part of the reasons for the wonderful slowdown in economic sports in Q4 may be defined with the aid of the rate impact as in nominal terms GVA did make bigger by 11.Three in keeping with cent. In actual phrases because of a higher GVA deflator (five.Four in step with cent) the actual GVA increase slumped to 5.6 according to cent in Q4. Subramanian also stated I suppose we can see some signs and symptoms of bottoming out and a recovery in the nominal aggregates which in fact did pick up in the fourth quarter. The figures launched on Wednesday factored inside the new collection of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) and the Wholesale Price Index (WPI). It become anticipated the brand new series would improve GDP boom but that did now not show up. Quarterly figures however modified substantially. Earlier estimates had pegged Q1 manufacturing growth at 9 consistent with cent. Besides agriculture mining also gave a lift to the economy in Q4. It rose 6.4 in keeping with cent in January-March towards 1.Nine in keeping with cent in Q3 in spite of price deflator for the mining area expanding via a whopping 25 in line with cent. Madan Savnavis leader economist with CARE Ratings stated he expects the economy to develop 7.6-7.Eight according to cent in FY18. The boom estimate is contingent on the prediction of regular monsoon on this 12 months in conjunction with expectation of a boost in consumption demand multiplied non-public area and government spending mainly on infrastructure he said. The nationwide roll-out of the goods and offerings tax in the 2d region of FY18 is also anticipated to spur growth albeit marginally an increment of zero.25 per cent to 0.Five in step with cent to GDP increase Sabnavis introduced. U.S. Economic growth in early 2017 become modest but stronger than initially concept and the pace is selecting up in the cutting-edge quarter. Continue Reading Below Gross home product a vast degree of the goods and services produced inside the U.S. Economy elevated at an inflation- and seasonally adjusted annual charge of 1.2% inside the first region t he Commerce Department said Friday. The organisation last month predicted GDP growth at a zero.7% annual charge throughout the primary three months of the 12 months. U.S. Boom has averaged 2.1% a yr since the recession ended in mid-2009. Looking thru quarterly fluctuations 2017 appears on a similar trajectory primarily based on latest projections by using private economists and Federal Reserve coverage makers. The restoration is still possibly uninspiring but it s enormously durable stated Michael Gapen leader U.S. Economist at Barclays. First-quarter increase has again and again disenchanted in recent years before rebounding within the spring and summer time. This 12 months appears set to follow that sample which some economists characteristic to seasonal-adjustment issues. Continue Reading Below ADVERTISEMENT Forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers on Friday predicted GDP might make bigger at a 3.3% pace in the 2d zone. President Donald Trump wants to improve sustained monetary increase above 3% through a combination of tax cuts and different coverage changes. But many economists say with a view to be hard given sluggish increase in the size of the hard work force and sluggish gains in worker productivity. Friday s document also provided the authorities s first estimate of U.S. Company earnings at some point of the primary area. After-tax profits with out inventory valuation and capital consumption changes fell 0.Three% from the fourth region but had been up 11.9% from a yr in advance. The earnings pullback got here after 4 consecutive quarterly gains. The Commerce Department stated first-quarter profits had been depressed through legal settlements regarding Credit Suisse Deutsche Bank and Volkswagen. Revisions to economic-output facts for the first quarter had been largely upbeat with more potent increase for spending by way of clients and agencies and a much less-dramatic pullback in spending by governments in comparison with initial estimates released ultimate month. Consumer spending which money owed for the general public of U.S. Monetary output rose at a zero.6% annual charge up from an earlier estimate of zero.3% however down from fourth-quarter growth of three.Five%. Federal Reserve officers have shrugged off susceptible first-sector spending as a brief setback based on signs and symptoms of underlying health consisting of endured hiring and increased consumer sentiment. AutoZone Inc. This week reported its U.S. Equal-keep income fell 0.Eight% from a yr in advance within the 3 months ended May 6. But the Memphis Tenn.-primarily based car-parts retailer stated income picked up inside the spring after a vulnerable begin. As we exited the region we felt our sales trends had normalized Chief Executive Bill Rhodes instructed analysts. Capital costs with the aid of U.S. Groups multiplied within the first region. A huge degree constant nonresidential funding rose at an 11.Four% annual rate up from an in advance estimate of nine.4% and the fourth area s 0.Nine% growth charge. Business spending rose widely led by way of a dramatic 28.Four% soar in spending on structures which includes mine shafts and oil wells. A predominant driving force of the current funding pickup has been a rebound in domestic power production. But the Commerce Department on Friday also reported an April pullback in orders for lengthy-lasting factory items a possible sign of gentle business spending on new device this spring. Spending by way of federal country and nearby governments contracted less than earlier concept in the first quarter falling at a 1.1% annual tempo versus a previous estimate of one.7%. Residential investment jumped at a thirteen.Eight% tempo within the first area up barely from the initial estimate and imparting a strong enhance to basic growth. Net exports contributed 0.13 percentage point to the first quarter s 1.2% growth charge even as personal inventories subtracted 1.07 percentage factor. Both classes have a tendency to be risky from sector to area. Write to Ben Leubsdorf at ben.Leubsdorf@wsj.Com U.S. Economic increase in early 2017 changed into modest however more potent than to begin with idea and the pace is choosing up inside the present day region. Gross domestic product a wide degree of the goods and offerings produced in the U.S. Financial system expanded at an inflation- and seasonally adjusted annual fee of 1.2% in the first area t he Commerce Department said Friday. The organization final month envisioned GDP increase at a zero.7% annual charge for the duration of the primary three months of the year. U.S. Boom has averaged 2.1% a year since the recession led to mid-2009. Looking via quarterly fluctuations 2017 appears on a similar trajectory based totally on recent projections by means of non-public economists and Federal Reserve policy makers. The recovery is still possibly uninspiring however it s quite durable said Michael Gapen leader U.S. Economist at Barclays. First-zone boom has time and again disappointed in recent years before rebounding in the spring and summer season. This 12 months looks set to observe that pattern which a few economists characteristic to seasonal-adjustment problems. Forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers on Friday anticipated GDP would amplify at a 3.3% annual tempo inside the second quarter. President Donald Trump desires to improve sustained economic increase above 3% via a combination of tax cuts and different policy modifications. But many economists say so one can be hard given sluggish boom inside the length of the hard work pressure and sluggish gains in employee productivity. Friday s file also presented the government s first estimate of U.S. Company income during the first region. After-tax earnings without inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments fell zero.3% from the fourth area however had been up 11.9% from a yr in advance. The earnings pullback came after four consecutive quarterly gains. The Commerce Department said first-region income have been depressed through prison settlements regarding U.S. Subsidiaries of Credit SuisseAG Deutsche Bank AG and Volkswagen AG. Revisions to monetary-output records for the primary sector have been largely upbeat with more potent boom for spending with the aid of clients and organizations and a less-dramatic pullback in spending by means of governments in comparison with initial estimates released last month. Consumer spending which debts for 2-thirds of U.S. Monetary output rose at a 0.6% annual fee up from an in advance estimate of zero.Three% but down from fourth-area growth of 3.Five%. Federal Reserve officers have shrugged off susceptible first-zone spending as a temporary setback based on symptoms of underlying fitness including persisted hiring and accelerated client sentiment. AutoZone Inc. This week said its U.S. Identical-shop sales fell zero.8% from a yr earlier inside the three months ended May 6. But the Memphis Tenn.-based totally vehicle-parts retailer said sales picked up in the spring after a susceptible start. As we exited the region we felt our sales tendencies had normalized Chief Executive Bill Rhodes advised analysts. Capital expenditures with the aid of U.S. Corporations increased inside the first region. A wide degree fixed nonresidential investment rose at an eleven.4% annual rate up from an earlier estimate of 9.Four% and the fourth sector s zero.9% boom fee. Business spending rose extensively led by way of a dramatic 28.Four% leap in spending on systems such as mine shafts and oil wells. A foremost driving force of the current investment pickup has been a rebound in home energy production. https://thoughtforthedayquotesblog.wordpress.com/ But the Commerce Department on Friday also stated an April pullback in orders for long-lasting manufacturing unit goods a likely signal of soft enterprise spending on new device this spring. Spending through federal nation and neighborhood governments shriveled much less than earlier notion within the first quarter falling at a 1.1% annual pace as opposed to a prior estimate of one.7%. Residential funding jumped at a thirteen.Eight% pace in the first area up slightly from the initial estimate and supplying a stable boost to general boom. Net exports contributed zero.Thirteen percent factor to the primary zone s 1.2% increase charge whilst non-public inventories subtracted 1.07 percentage point. Both categories tend to be risky from sector to quarter. Write to Ben Leubsdorf at ben.Leubsdorf@wsj.Com (END) Dow Jones Newswires May 26 2017 18:02 ET (22:02 GMT) ALSO READ Sensex trades flat Nifty below 8 250; Tata Motors pinnacle gainer Sensex trades decrease Nifty falls beneath 8 400; RIL sheds round three% Nifty holds above 9 050 on advantageous Asian cues; broader markets outperform Sensex down 150 factors Nifty underneath nine 2 hundred; broader markets underperform span.P-content material div identification =div-gpt line-peak: 0px; font-length: 0px; The benchmark indices had been shifting on a flatline on Thursday after the gross domestic product (GDP) records confirmed increase declined to 6.1% within the January-March area with India losing the tag of being the world s fastest developing major economy to China. At 12:02 pm the S