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4 16-10-2019 to 31-10-2019 ASIA www.theasianindependent.co.uk US lunar orbiter to look out for India's moon lander Vikram Chennai : Has the Indian moon lander Vikram been found or not is a question that the US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will soon be able to answer. A NASA official had earlier told IANS in New York that on October 14, its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) would fly over the site, where Vikram might have landed. The US space agency had earlier said its LRO had passed over the landing site of Vikram on September 17 and acquired a set of high resolution images of the area. New Delhi : The Congress on Tuesday questioned the BJP's demand for the Bharat Ratna to be awarded to Hindu Mahasabha founder Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly election. Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari said: "I am shocked that on one hand the BJP is praising Mahatma Gandhi and on the other is demanding Bharat Ratna for Savarkar. In a country where Mahatma Gandhi is made to commit sucide in textbooks, Hike tariffs on Pak products: Afghan businessmen President to visit Philippines, Japan New Delhi : President Ram Nath Kovind will pay a four-day state visit to the Philippines from October 17, and then visit Japan to attend the Enthronement Ceremony of the Japanese Emperor Naruhito. The President's visit to the Philippines is at the invitation of its President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. The state visit is taking place on the occasion of 70 years of establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The President will hold restricted and delegation level talks with President Duterte in Manila and will also participate in business and community events, a MEA statement said. However, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team was not able to locate or image the lander, NASA had said. "It was then anything can be possible. On a more serious note, though Savarkar was chargesheeted for Mahatma's murder, it is correct that he was acquitted." The BJP poll manifesto released jointly by Working President J.P. Nadda and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis demanded that the BJP-led NDA government confer the Kabul : A number of Afghan businessmen have called on the government to increase tariffs on Pakistan's seasonal exports, a media report said on Tuesday. The businessmen added that the government should impose tariffs not only on Pakistan, but Iran as well, for fruits and vegetables, TOLO News said in the report. They said that domestic markets were currently full of Iranian and Pakistani fruits and vegetables -- which are also produced in Afghanistan, and the government is doing nothing to support domestic products. "When our fruit season arrives, Pakistan imposes a high tariff and we have to sell our products for less," said Ashraf, a businessman. "Import tariffs on products from Iran and Pakistan should be raised, which is in the favour of the government itself. If there are dusk when the landing area was imaged and thus large shadows covered much of the terrain; it is possible that the Vikram lander is hiding in a Bharat Ratna - the nation's highest civilian honour - on Veer Savarkar. The BJP has tried to evoke Maratha and Dalit sentiments as the Bharat Ratna has also been demanded for social reformers Jyotiba Phule and Savitri Bai Phule. The BJP has also promised to create 1 crore no high tariffs, the domestic agricultural market will suffer," said Qodratullah, another businessman. Potato farmers, for which harvest season has arrived, face the challenge of not having a market. Each kilogram is sold for up to 12 Afghanis ($0.15 dollar). During his visit to Japan, from Oct 21-23, the President will attend various ceremonies related to the Emperor's enthronement and also a banquet hosted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Along with participating in a community event, the President will visit a Buddhist temple and plant a sapling from the sacred Bodhi Tree in Gaya to highlight India and Japan's historical and cultural linkages based on Buddhism. The President's visit to the two countries reaffirms India's commitment to strengthen its bilateral ties based on traditional bonds of friendship and mutual understanding, the statement said. shadow. The lighting will be favourable when LRO passes over the site in October and once again attempts to locate and image the lander," NASA had said. According to NASA, Vikram, attempted a landing on a small patch of lunar highland smooth plains between Simpelius N and Manzinus C craters. This event was India's first attempt at a soft landing on the Moon. The US agency said Vikram's targeted landing site was located about 600 kilometers (370 miles) from the south pole in a relatively ancient terrain (70.8AoS latitude, 23.5AoE longitude). Congress slams BJP's demand for Bharat Ratna to Savarkar jobs in the next five years and make Maharashtra a 1 trilliondollar economy. However, criticising the manifesto, Tiwari questioned the PMC Bank scam and death of one of its depositors, saying "The public has come to the conclusion that their money is not safe in the banks." The 288-member Maharashtra Assembly goes to polls on October 21 and counting of votes will take place on October 24. Delhi urges Centre to share SAFAR's data to check pollution New Delhi : As the air quality in the national capital started deteriorating, Delhi Environment Minister Kailash Gehlot on Tuesday wrote to Union Minister of Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan requesting for sharing data and technology of the ministry's System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR) to ascertain the causes of pollution in the city during winter. In the letter, Gehlot said that the stubble burning in the neighbouring states in November has always contributed significantly to higher PM2.5 levels in Delhi. He said that SAFAR had stated that farm fires contributed just 2 per cent to Delhi's overall PM2.5 concentration and it has been indicated that it is likely to increase to 6 per cent by October 15. "I understand that your ministry is equally concerned with the pollution levels in Delhi and both the governments (Delhi and Centre) can work together to reduce pollution levels in Delhi," he said. Saying that the air quality monitoring stations under the Delhi Pollution Control Committee are able to furnish data with regard to PM 2.5 concentration, he added that media reports have claimed that the SAFAR has the technology to indicate contribution in terms of percentage of stubble burning towards PM2.5 levels in Delhi on a particular day. " T h i s means that SAFAR also has the technology and equipment to do some allocation of pollution on realtime basis," he said, requesting Vardhan to grant access to data on sources of pollution on each day in the last one week. He said this will help "us take correct decisions immediately". "I would request you to share the technical expertise developed by SAFAR in this regard so that the Delhi government can benefit from the same," he concluded the letter. SAFAR envisages a research-based management system where strategies of air pollution mitigation go hand in hand with the nation's economic development to target a winwin scenario, according to its official website.
www.theasianindependent.co.uk ASIA 16-10-2019 to 31-10-2019 5 NATIONAL SHAME: HOW DID GANDHIJI COMMIT SUICIDE? A question: How did shameful than this for the Gandhiji commit suicide? was asked in Gujarat (India) to class 9th students during an internal assessment exam of schools run under the banner of ‘Sufalam Shala Vikas Sankul. This is a new agenda of RSS whole nation. There is no denying the fact that India`s education system has gone to the worst hands since the BJP took the reign of the government. Such premediated abhorrent effort on in India. Prime Minister behalf of the BJP/RSS will lead Narendra Modi has been to disaster in the education system. singing a song of Mahatma Gandhi from early morning to People of India must understand that BJP/RSS has midnight. Prime Minister nothing to do with Gandhi or Narendra Modi proudly use the Gandhism. Gandhi and name of the father of the nation at the United Nations forum to win the hearts of the world leaders. This agenda of RSS Gandhism are used egregiously to establish a good rapport with the world leaders who believe that non-violence is the only aims to wash out the sins of the nation in the daylight on 30 of BJP/RSS is to confuse the method through which justice Nathuram Godse, RSS affiliate January 1948 at Birla House minds of the students from the can be achieved permanently. who assassinated the father of (now Gandhi Smriti). The idea beginning. Nothing can be – Dr. Rahul Kumar, Ph.D. BSNL hopeful on paying salaries before DIWALI, says CMD New Delhi : State-run BSNL, facing hard times financially, is hopeful of giving salary for September to its 1.76 lakh employees before Diwali, its Chairman and Managing Director P.K. Purwar said on Tuesday. "We will give salary to the employees before Diwali from our own resources on accruals. We generate Rs 1,600 crore a month revenues from services," Purwar told IANS. Due to a fund crunch, the BSNL has been paying salaries with a delay. Even though BSNL is generating about Rs 1,600 crore per month, this is not adequate to cover the wages, since a major portion of the proceeds is Slowing economy: India's exports dip third time this year New Delhi : India's merchandise exports in September declined for the third time in the current financial year, while imports dropped for the fourth consecutive month, signaling that rising protectionism and continuing trade tensions between the US and China along with the spectre of a global slowdown are impacting India's trade prospects as well. Data released by the Commerce Ministry showed India's merchandise exports declined 6.57 per cent to $26.03 billion in September 2019 from $27.87 billion in September 2018 while imports in the month dropped 13.85 per cent to $36.89 billion from $42.82 billion in September 2018. Despite the overall sluggish export performance, sectors such as electronic goods, spices, minerals and ores, required for operational expenses and statutory payments, sources said adding the PSU has been trying to raise funds from bank through government guarantees which it is yet to get. Purwar said the response he has got from the ceramic products, drug and pharmaceuticals recorded positive growth in September. Shipments of gems and jewellery, engineering goods, petroleum products, handloom and leather goods, cereals, meat and dairy products recorded negative growth, according to the data. "Declining trend in exports does not augur well for the overall growth of the economy. Escalating trade tensions that have unsettled the slowing world economy have also led WTO to sharply cut their trade forecasts for both 2019 and 2020 to 1.2 and 2.7 respectively. The downside risks still remain high in the global economy and the projection for 2020 depends on a return to more normal trade relations," said FIEO President Sharad Kumar Saraf. The problem for government is that the PSU's revival package in terms on 4G spectrum and VRS are on priority list. But in the overall structure of government which has many responsibilities, things do take time. BSNL's per month salary India's exports has assumed serious proportions as only eight out of 30 major product groups showed positive growth in September 2019. All major sectors including almost all labour-intensive sector of exports besides petroleum were in the negative, showing such a pay-out is Rs 850 crore. The PSU has to also clear vendors dues from its internal accruals. The BSNL posted a net loss of provisional loss of Rs 13,804 crore in FY19. The induction of 4G spectrum and VRS to cut its huge workforce can lessen its financial woes, it says. The Finance Ministry, which is currently looking into the Department of Telecom's Rs 50,000 crore revival package for BSNL and MTNL, is reserved on capital infusion in the ailing PSUs due to their continuing losses over the last 10 years. A panel headed by Home Minister Amit Shah is however in favour of capital infusion and so is the PMO. decelerating trend. "Exports continue to remain amongst the weakest links of the economy. The situation is aggravated by worsening global trade, making it essential for the government to intervene effectively to make Indian exports competitive. Rising raw material prices and '89% workers in India would trust robot more than manager' San Francisco : Workers in India are the most excited about Artificial Intelligence (AI) with 89 per cent of them appearing to be more trusting of robots over their managers, says a new study. AI is becoming more prominent with 50 per cent of workers currently using some form of AI at work compared to only 32 per cent last year, according to the study conducted by leading Cloud service provider Oracle and research firm Future Workplace. Workers in India (89 per cent) and China (88 per cent) are more trusting of robots over their managers, followed by Singapore (83 per cent), Brazil (78 per cent), Japan (76 per cent), UAE (74 per cent), Australia/New Zealand (58 per cent), France (56 per cent), the US (57 per cent) and the UK (54 per cent), said the "AI at Work" study. "With technology adding great value to all organisational functions, people are lack of low cost credit need to be tackled," said EEPC India Chairman Ravi Sehgal. As per the Commerce Ministry data, amidst the sluggish trade performance in the month of September, the country's trade deficit shrunk during the month under review to $10.86 billion dollars from $14.95 billion in the year ago period. The drop has largely been on account of sharp fall in imports relative to exports. Imports during September showed negative growth in almost all major sectors including coal, petroleum products, crude precious and semi-precious stones, chemicals and electronic goods. Oil imports in September were $8.98 billion, which was 18.33 per cent lower, compared to $10.99 bn in corresponding period last year. The third monthly fall in excited about increasingly leveraging technologies like AI in HR," Shaakun Khanna, Head of Human Capital Management (HCM) Applications, Asia Pacific, Oracle, said in a statement. "The study also highlights another aspect that with technology taking care of transactional activities, leaders and managers need to bring more strategic value to management and use more of their soft skills with people," Khanna said. The study of 8,370 employees, managers and HR leaders across 10 countries, found that AI has changed the relationship between people and technology at work and is reshaping the role HR teams and managers need to play in attracting, retaining and developing talent. Workers in China (77 per cent) and India (78 per cent) have adopted AI over 2X more than those in France (32 per cent) and Japan (29 per cent), the results showed. exports this year (FY20) has meant that cumulative value of exports for the period April- September 2019-20 also fell by 2.39 per cent to $159.57 billion as against $163.48 billion during April-September 2018-19. The fall in exports for India has come at a time when Indian economy has slowed to 5 per cent level in the first quarter of FY20 and indications are that it will fall further despite government efforts to pump prime the economy through a series of stimulus measures. All major global institutions have brought down India's growth projections. What is more worrisome that even the world economy is slowing down. The latest IMF projections put world to grow at 3 per cent in 2019 lower from its earlier projection of 3.2 per cent and a lot lower that 2018 growth of 3.6 per cent.
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