Li Keqiang visit to Europe

ON JULY 4, 2018 BY NARESH SAGARLEAVE A COMMENTEDIT

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, a frequent visitor to Europe, will start his tour to Bulgaria and Germany Thursday. Li has visited Europe nine times since becoming premier in 2013.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is set to embark on an official visit to Europe. It presents a good chance for the two sides, both staunch supporters of global free trade, to cement cooperation and enlarge their consensus on defending the rules-based multilateral trading system.

During the week-long trip, the premier will also attend the 7th meeting of leaders from China and the Central and Eastern European Countries in Sofia, Bulgaria, and co-chair in Berlin the 5th round of China-Germany intergovernmental consultations with his German counterpart, Angela Merkel.

China and European countries are natural partners. They are even more so in a world of growing uncertainties. They firmly believe that free trade is a powerful engine for global economic growth, while unilateralism and trade protectionism could trigger volatility and recession in the global economy.

IIT engineers develop painless needles technology

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Engineers have developed a technology of painless micro-needles, based on the concept of mosquito bite, where one does not feel the pain on being bitten.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, in collaboration with scholars at Ohio State University (US), have developed a technology of painless micro-needles, based on the concept of mosquito bite, where one does not feel the pain on being bitten.

According to the team, the use of a numbing agent; a serrated design to the needle vibration during the piercing; and a combination of soft and hard parts on the proboscis are the methods for painless needles. However, these needles could be costlier than those traditional ones, but will be useful for children and adults.

Till now, the engineers have only developed a technology, however no such device has been made. In the near future, the team may develop the device or needle based on the technology or they will look out for someone who could make this device.

Swede,England in Qtrs, Russia WC2018

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With last 16 matches last round , Quarterfinal encounters will commence on Friday with France taking on Uruguay at Nizhny Novgorod while Brazil will face Belgium in Kazan. Schedule  of Quarter final,  On Saturday, Sweden will take on England at Samara and hosts Russia facing Croatia in Soch. Uruguay to face France, Brazil to play Belgium, on July 06.

Quarter-Finals
Jul 06	Uruguay	v	France	Nizhny Novgorod	19:30
Jul 06	Brazil	v	Belgium	Kazan	23:30
Jul 07	Sweden	v	England	Samara	19:30
Jul 07	Russia	v	Croatia	Sochi

Sagar Media Inc: #SWESWI. Sweden  defeat Switzerland  1-0 in round of 16 to move into quarter finals.Both EU Team played moderate game with goal shots saying instead to goal.Both teams got ample chance Swede defense robust.

Sweden are through to the quarter finals of the World Cup- Emil Forsberg’s deflected strike enough to beat Switzerland. Sweden defeat Switzerland 1-0 in round of 16 to move into quarter finals. #FIFA18WorldCup.

In another match England and Columbia unable to goal each other  . #ENGCOL. Goes for penality shoots, England winsa PENALTY shootout.

England go further ahead when Spain, Germany, Argentina, and Mexico fell from grace.

Quarterfinals line up has been finalised with the entry of Sweden and England to the last eight stage. In the final two Round of Sixteen matches yesterday, Sweden beat Switzerland one-nil at Saint Petersburg while England defeated Colombia in a dramatic penalty shoot-out in Moscow.

At the Spartak Stadium, England overcame Colombia 4-3 in a penalty shoot-out after the match finished 1-1 following extra time.  This was England’s first penalty shootout win at a World Cup.Colombia’s Jordan Henderson missed his penalty shot while Eric Dier netted the decisive spot-kick as England reached the quarter-finals for the first time since 2006.

In the last pre-quarterfinal, Sweden edged Switzerland, riding on a solitary goal by Emil Forsberg at Saint Petersburg.

Switzerland had the lion’s share of ball possession but was toothless in attack. Sweden reached the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time in 24 years.

‘Gau’ Raksha: The “Cow-Life Controversy” & the Bengali Muslim Public Sphere (1889-90)

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July 11 CPR Land Rights Initiative is pleased to invite you to a talk on ‘Gau’ Raksha: The “Cow-Life Controversy” & the Bengali Muslim Public Sphere (1889-90) Dr Mou Banerjee Wednesday, 11 July 2018, 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research Image Source About the Topic Mir Mosharraf Hossein (1847-1912), pioneering author of the Musalmani-Bengali novel, was also a social commentator and journalist. In reaction to the socio-political disharmony in Bengal, exacerbated by “cow-protection” movements and the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, Hossein penned a series of articles in the periodical Ahmadi in 1888. The articles, collected and published as Go-Jiban (Cow-Life) in pamphlet form, exhorted Muslims to eschew cow-slaughter. This caused vicious controversy. There were protesting editorials in the Akhbar’e Islamia and Hossein was accused of apostasy. He retaliated, instituting a libel-case. The controversy deepened with the publication of a refutation of Go-Jiban by Reazuddin Mashhadi. The periodicals were published in Kushtia and Tangail in rural East Bengal. A study of the controversy, articulated in the vernacular, non-elite public sphere through Musalmani-Bengali periodicals and pamphlets, provides a rare insight into the formation process of political identities and networks of intra-communal information exchange revolving around a religiously sensitive issue. About the Speaker Dr Mou Banerjee received her PhD in modern South Asian history from Harvard in 2018. Her dissertation thesis titled : “Questions of Faith: Christianity, Conversion and the Ideological Origins of Political Theology in Colonial India, 1813-1907.” received the Harold K Gross Dissertation Prize which is “to be awarded each year at Graduation to the Ph D recipient whose dissertation, in the opinion of a committee of Department members, gave greatest promise of a distinguished career of historical research.” Her research examines conversion to Protestant Christianity and explains how this issue emerged as the earliest and important locus of public debate, social reform and anti-colonial resistance in colonial India in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Banerjee is a College Fellow at Harvard at the moment and will join Clemson University as Assistant Professor of History from the Fall of 2018. Please RSVP at this link. This is the eleventh in a series of talks organised by CPR Land Rights Initiative to showcase perspectives on land rights issues by diverse stakeholders, including academics from various disciplinary backgrounds, civil society organisations, journalists, grassroots workers, and policymakers. Tweet Share Forward

T-20-India won with Kuldeep magic spell against England

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India win the toss and elect to field. India and England T20 in England is it  tough for team Virat.

England following up a 5-0 whitewash in the ODI series against Australia played their First Twenty20, Old Trafford:England scored respectable 159-8 (20.0 overs): with top score by an opener Buttler 69, India spinner wrecking with his best Kuldeep 5-24, chasing India scored 163-2 (18.2 overs): KL Rahul 101* and India won by eight wickets.

This is Gallant efforts by Kuldeep Yadav and KL Rahul inspire India to eight wicket victory against England in the first T20 International, the 7th consecutive T20 win for India.

Kuldeep  Googly bowler, with a prodigious spell of left-arm wrist-spin,  23-year-old bowled a nagging  length, not afraid to slow his pace and give the ball plenty of flight, doing most of his damage with a well-disguised googly.

 Eoin Morgan on Test Match said, “Kuldeep’s performance with the ball in his third over probably cost us 30 or 40 runs. We’ll have to devise a plan how we’re going to play him. Here it cost us.”

Earthquake of Magnitude:4.5

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Earthquake of Magnitude:4.5, Occurred on:04-07-2018, 05:25:16 IST, Lat:13.2 N & Long: 93.8 E, Depth: 10 Km, Region:Andaman Islands

Rudra Chaudhuri Named Next Director of Carnegie India

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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Rudra Chaudhuri Named Next Director of Carnegie India

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace announced today that Rudra Chaudhuri will succeed C. Raja Mohan as director of Carnegie India, based in New Delhi. Mohan, the center’s inaugural director, will remain a nonresident senior fellow based in Singapore where he will also direct the Institute of South Asian Studies, a think tank of the National University of Singapore.Chaudhuri comes to Carnegie from King’s College London, where he has served as a senior lecturer in South Asian security and strategic studies in the Department of War Studies and the India Institute since 2009. At King’s, Chaudhuri is the founding and current director of the FCO’s Diplomatic Academy for South Asia. He previously taught at the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College. He is author of the acclaimed book Forged in Crisis: India and the United States Since 1947 (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Carnegie India opened in April 2016, joining Carnegie’s centers in Beijing, Beirut, Brussels, Moscow, and Washington. The center’s research and programmatic focus includes the political economy of reform in India, foreign and security policy, and the role of innovation and technology in India’s internal transformation and international relations.

“We are delighted to welcome Rudra Chaudhuri to Carnegie,” Carnegie President William J. Burns said. “Rudra represents the very best of the next generation of Indian scholars, and he embodies Carnegie’s commitment to offering independent, global, and strategic insight and ideas on the consequential issues of our time. I am indebted to Raja’s remarkable leadership of Carnegie India and the support and partnership of our Board of Trustees and the Carnegie India Founders Committee, and I look forward to working with all of them to continue to strengthen and grow the center and its impact not only in India but across our global network.”

“I am very pleased to join Carnegie India and the broader Carnegie family at this important moment in India’s evolution at home and on the world stage,” said Chaudhuri. “I am particularly looking forward to working with so many thoughtful and deeply experienced colleagues across Carnegie’s global network to collectively absorb and address the challenging trends and choices before us and how best to navigate them.”

Press Contact: Meshal DeSantis | +1 202 939 2233 | mdesantis@ceip.org

Tharoor moves for anticipatory bail

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday moved a Delhi court seeking anticipatory bail in the case related to the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.

Tharoor has already been summoned as an accused in the case.

The politician’s plea was filed before Special Judge Arvind Kumar who sought Delhi Police’s response and kept it for hearing on Wednesday.

Tharoor was earlier summoned as an accused by a magisterial court for the alleged offences of abetment of suicide and committing cruelty towards Pushkar.

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DAILY MESSENGER 

(A Daily News Brief from UNODC South Asia on security, human rights, the rule of law and health)

03 July 2018

Bangladesh ‘Drug trader’ killed in Mymensingh ‘gunfight’, UNB At least 122 people have been killed in 'gunfights' with members of law enforcement agencies as part of the countrywide anti-narcotic drives since 15 May. Sharp rise in sexual abuse of children, The Dhaka Tribune Incidents of violence towards children have seen a sharp rise in the first six months of this year and 2018 is likely to be more horrible for children compared to 2017. World Bank urges world to support Bangladesh on Rohingya, Prothom Alo World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim has said Bangladesh needs more support from the world to help close to a million Rohingya refugees driven by violence from Myanmar. Is Bangladesh still under militancy threat?, The Dhaka Tribune Two years on, law enforcement officials say the militant groups have mostly been neutralized. Bhutan Dealing with bullying, Kuensel When bullying happens to the young and vulnerable, consequences are often sad and painful. Spirit possession accepted as circumstantial and corroborative evidence in Trongsa double murder case, Kuensel In a murder case, a court has ruled that since the country’s culture and tradition believe in spirit possession, it could accept it as circumstantial and corroborative evidence in accordance with the Evidence Act. India                                                                   Punjab wants death for drug peddlers, The Times of India At a meeting chaired by chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh, the Punjab cabinet has decided to send a formal recommendation to the Centre at the earliest to amend the legislation involved. Time to act tough: Ministers to CM, The Tribune Drug deaths stir Government of Punjab into action. Ahmedabad: 42,000 bottles of Codeine cough syrup seized, three held, DNA India The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Ahmedabad, and Food and Drugs Control Administration (FDCA), Gujarat, seized more than 42,000 bottles of safe cod codeine phosphate cough syrup from Patan and Ahmedabad. Police put chemists on notice, The Tribune Cops says erring medical store owners will be brought to book. Tangled web of intrigue as drug dealers hide behind Bitcoin, Asia Times Investigators are struggling to keep up as more drug sales take place on the dark web, often settled in cryptocurrencies. BSF to roll out advanced border management system along Pakistan, Bangladesh border, The Hindustan Times The Border Security Force (BSF) will soon roll out the Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS) along the 2,400-km vulnerable stretch along the international border (IB) adjoining Pakistan and Bangladesh. India is the most dangerous country for women. It must face reality, The Guardian A global survey exposes a vicious cultural agreement that women have little value in our society. The Inconvenient Truth: Reuters Survey On India's Women Needs To Be Taken In The Right Spirit, News 18 The latest government data shows that reported cases of crimes against women in India rose by 83% between 2007 and 2016, when there were about hundred cases of rape reported every day. Mandsaur rape case: Child rights experts slam Madhya Pradesh's death penalty for raping minors, Firstpost In 2017, the Madhya Pradesh Assembly unanimously passed a Bill introducing the death penalty for those found guilty of raping minors aged 12 years or less. Decoding lynching: Socio-politics of targeted violence in India, The Asian Age In many cases of lynching, locally organised cow protection groups take the lead and incite mob violence against hapless victims. WhatsApp India: Five lynched after online child kidnap rumors, CNN Incidents involving fake rumors spread via WhatsApp have increased across India in the last month. Narendra Modi directs security agencies and state govts to step up countermeasures against extremism, Firstpost With growing concerns over indoctrination through social media, end-to-end encrypted apps and audio-video clips on the dark web, the government is laying the groundwork with the help of states to mount a grand offensive against multifaceted radicalisation threats, in a bid to neutralise potential sources advocating violent extremism. Skin ailments rampant among prisoners in Maharashtra, The Times of India “Fungal infections, scabies and eczema are widespread in jails. Hygiene is an issue perhaps because of rationing on soaps, clothes.” Supreme Court issues slew of directions on police reforms in country, The Economic Times The Supreme Court has passed a slew of directions on police reforms in the country and ordered all states and Union territories to not appoint any police officer as acting Director General of Police (DGP). Maharashtra police to be trained in cracking wildlife crimes, DNA India Making the fight against poaching and smuggling of flora and fauna in the country stronger, the Maharashtra police will soon be trained in the investigation of wildlife crimes. Maldives Fourth Maldivian arrested in India drug bust, The Maldives Independent The drugs were going to be smuggled into the Maldives in vegetable oil cans, it was reported. Maldives Customs nab 6.87 kilograms of drugs, Avas Maldives Customs have confiscated a total of 6.87 kilograms of drugs from luggage of two separate arrivals to Maldives. Islam, infrastructure and foreign pressure: Maldives president on campaign trail, The Maldives Independent The president slammed foreign interference and vowed harsh punishments for Maldivians who insult Islam. Nepal Transitional justice bill goes through both houses, The Himalayan Times A meeting of the House of Representative has passed  the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (First Amendment) Bill. Interpol issues Red Notice for 83 Nepalis, The Himalayan Times International Criminal Police Organisation has issued Red Notice for 85 persons, including two foreigners, on the request of National Central Bureau, Kathmandu. Recalibrating Nepal’s foreign policy, The Kathmandu Post The government must seriously deliberate on matters of foreign polices to take the country to greater heights. Sri Lanka   Brazilian smugglers: 163 cocaine pills worth Rs.48mn recovered, The Daily Mirror 163 cocaine pills worth Rs.48.5 million have been recovered from two Brazilians after they were arrested by the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) at the Bandaranaike International Airport. Sri Lanka emphasizes addressing root causes of conflict in prevention of terrorism, Colombo Page Sri Lanka, as a country that had experienced first-hand the suffering of its people due to terrorism, emphasized that a key pillar of counter-terrorism is prevention and addressing the root causes of conflict. Sri Lanka has come a long way after rejecting corruption: Teplitz, Colombo Page Sri Lanka has come a long way since voters in 2015 rejected the corruption, strife and repression of the past and threw their support behind a reform, reconciliation and accountability agenda, incoming US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives Alaina Teplitz said. International Fentanyl Is Causing Almost Half of All Overdose Deaths, Research Shows, Fortune Fentanyl is a highly addictive synthetic opioid that the Center for Disease Control says is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. In the fight against human trafficking a multi-sector approach is key, The Bangkok Post While government initiative is paramount, NGO, labour, industry and government representatives acknowledge the need to work together to protect workers' rights. African leaders pledge to defeat Islamic extremism as Macron visits, The Sydney Morning Herald African heads of state have pledged to coordinate efforts to improve the continent's security and defeat jihadist groups, particularly in Nigeria and the Sahel region, during talks at the 31st African Union summit held in Mauritania's capital. Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak Has Been Arrested By Anti-Corruption Officials, Time Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was arrested Tuesday by anti-graft investigators and will be charged over his alleged role in the multibillion-dollar looting of a state investment fund. UNODC World UNODC co-organizes Security Council Arria-formula meeting to discuss maritime crime, UNODC UNODC co-organized with Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, the Netherlands, and the United States an Arria-formula meeting on maritime crime as a threat to international peace and security. UN chief hears ‘heartbreaking accounts’ of suffering from Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, UN News Centre United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres visited Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, declaring that “nothing could have prepared me for the scale of the crisis and extent of suffering” he witnessed there.                                                                                                               We welcome your feedback and comments. Write to us on samarth.pathak@un.org Follow us on:  Facebook |  Twitter Contact us: Regional Office for South Asia United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime EP 16/17, Chandragupta Marg, Chanakyapuri New Delhi-110021 Telephone: +91-11 24104964 Website: www.unodc.org/southasia

NYU Abu Dhabi signs MoU

New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has signed an inaugural Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH). The two organizations are collaborating on NYUAD’s UAE Healthy Future study, a long-term ongoing study that was launched by the NYUAD Public Health Research Center in 2017, to understand the causes of common chronic diseases among Emiratis, focusing particularly on priority areas of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. The study aims to recruit 20,000 UAE nationals between the ages of 18-40 with over 5,000 participants already signed up to date.

The MOU was signed by H.E. Mohamed Hamad Al Hameli, Undersecretary of DOH, and Fabio Piano, Provost of NYU Abu Dhabi, at the University’s campus on Saadiyat Island.

The collaboration will support the mission shared between the two organizations to improve the health of the local population. The results of the UAE Healthy Future Study will be significantly improved by linking the participants’ results with data collected by the DoH. Furthermore, the study will also work closely with DoH to collect additional information on the participants’ diets, a key risk factor for obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.