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2. Lok Sabha passes Trafficking of Persons Bill, 2018
3. Why it is difficult to regulate 3D-printed guns
4. Why does Japan have so much plutonium?
5. What’s at stake in Pakistan’s election
6. What is a heat wave?
7. Why the Taj Mahal is changing colour
8. Why STDs are on the rise in America
9. How Ethiopia and Eritrea made peace
10. What is happening in Nicaragua
11. What sovereignty means for America’s Indian tribes
12. Why Japan is going to accept more foreign workers
13. The enduring influence of the Czech Republic’s communists
14. How England surprised everyone at the World Cup
15. What are “predatory” academic journals?
16. Why bitcoin uses so much energy
17. NITI Aayog mulls using PSUs' CSR funds on 'aspirational districts ... - Hindu Business Line (satire) (press release) (blog)
18. Need to ease carbon taxes to help energy-intensive industries ... - Livemint
19. West Bengal assembly passes resolution renaming state as 'Bangla' (Lead)
20. Biocon net up 48% in Q1
21. Bahia blank Cerro in Copa Sudamericana tie
22. James Key joins McLaren as technical director
23. No sitting of Parliament on Friday
24. Hindalco's Novelis to acquire Aleris for $2.58 bn
25. Militants decamp with four rifles in J&K
26. Three hunger deaths may not be first in Delhi, say activists
27. IMA calls nationwide 12-hour strike on Saturday
28. Cancellation of RCom's spectrum will 'jeopardise' dues recovery: SBI to DoT
29. Bengal to come up with law to curb land grabbing of tribals
30. The West Bengal government will come up with a new law to curb land grabbing of tribals, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today.
31. Railway inducts five machines to make tracks safer, journeys comfortable
32. Railways today inducted five machines to make tracks safer and train journeys more comfortable, a statement from the Ministry said today.
33. Don't create hurdles to interfaith marriages, HC tells Haryana officials
34. The high court here has asked Haryana government officials not to create hurdles to interfaith marriages, saying some of the information sought under the state's rules violated privacy.
35. Committees to ensure complete ban on sale of tobacco in periphery of medical, educational institutions
36. The Haryana government would constitute steering committees at district-level to ensure complete ban on smoking and sale of tobacco in the periphery of medical and educational institutions in the state.
37. Woman cop fined Rs 1L for disobeying HC order
38. A woman police constable faced the wrath of the Madras High Court for not obeying its order to handover custody of her minor child for a day to her estranged husband as it penalised her with Rs one lakh and ordered disciplinary action today.
39. What is happening in Kerala, priests are becoming rape accused: SC
40. What is happening in Kerala, priests are becoming accused in rape cases', the Supreme Court wondered today as it asked the state police to file a status report on the investigation done against four clergymen accused of sexually abusing a married woman.
41. Rahul should get married then he can hug us: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey
42. A day after Rahul Gandhi said BJP MPs step back on seeing him as they fear he might hug them, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey today took a jibe, saying the leaders may be divorced by their wives if they embrace the Congress president as "Section 377 hasn't been scrapped as yet".
43. India lose 1-2 to Pakistan in World Junior Squash team C'ship
44. India suffered a narrow 1-2 loss against arch-rivals Pakistan in the pre-quarterfinals of the WSF-World Junior Squash team championship here today.
45. Israel's Netanyahu holds talks with Druze on Jewish nation state law
46. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with lawmakers from the minority Druze community today after a court challenge over a deeply controversial law declaring Israel the nation state of the Jewish people.
47. Comcast shares rise on internet customer, profit growth
48. Ex-assistant chairman of China's banking regulator sentenced to 16 years in prison: state media
49. As ad rivals flounder, Dentsu Aegis boss seeks to stay ahead
50. ITC first-quarter profit rises 10 percent, beats estimates
51. Draghi's pledge on low interest rates hits euro, lifts bonds
52. The logo of Ford. File photo: Reuters
53. Mahesh Malani becomes 1st Hindu to win NA seat from Tharparkar in Sindh
54. A sugar mill locomotive
55. Women on the move
56. JSW Steel beats estimate; April-June consolidated net profit at Rs 23.39 bn
57. The Rise Of An “Assassination Marketplace” Shows The Dark Side of Decentralized Networks
58. A Plane Train Hybrid Concept is the Best of Both Vehicles
59. Virtual Reality Has Reached A Tipping Point.
60. It's Officially Here to Stay.
61. Tesla Is Reportedly Asking Suppliers to Refund Payments To Have More Cash On Hand
62. Autonomous Cars Must Anticipate and Adapt to Spontaneous Human Behavior
63. It’s Not Uber’s Fault That NYC’s Public Transportation Sucks
64. AI-Generated Video Games Are Limitless, And Endlessly Entertaining
65. Uber and Lyft Still Allow Racist Behavior, but Not as Much as Taxi Services
66. Augur was intended to allow people to predict things without interference of a central authority. But, of course, the internet ruined it.
67. Taxi drivers are 73% more likely to cancel on black riders than white ones.
68. Virtual Reality Has Reached A “Tipping Point.” It’s Officially Here to Stay.
69. AI-Generated Video Games Are Limitless, And Endlessly Entertaining
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76. This Week in Tech: July 7 â€" July 13, 2018
77. Alphabet Will Bring Its Balloon-Powered Internet to Kenya
78. Facebook Needs Humans *And* Algorithms To Filter Hate Speech
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82. A plane train hybrid transport concept pitched by one tech CEO could put more people closer to home faster than both vehicles could alone.
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301. SHUNNING all false modesty, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, calls his idea the “project of the century”. The country’s fawning media hail it as a gift of “Chinese wisdom” to the world’s development. As for the real meaning of the clumsy metaphor to describe itâ€"the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)â€"debate rages. The term itself is confusing.
302. SOME 22 years after Imran Khan founded Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to break open the country’s corrupt dynastic politics, the 65-year-old former cricket star was waiting, as The Economist went to press, for official confirmation that his party had won the most seats in Pakistan’s general election.
303. PRESIDENT Donald Trump has not been shy about his admiration for tariffs. But on July 25th his love of deals appeared to prevail. Tweeting a picture of Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, kissing his cheek, Mr Trump heralded an advance in trade relations between America and the European Union.
304. IT WAS supposed to draw the row to an end. Labour’s new code of conduct on anti-Semitism was the “gold standard”, declared Jon Lansman, a prominent Labour activist who sits on the party board that signed off the new rules this month.
305. MANY OF THE photos seem older than they are. In black and white, they show Spaniards wrapped in overcoats, the men with sideburns, the women with perms, voting in a referendum on a new constitution on December 6th 1978.
306. SODANKYLA, a town in Finnish Lapland just north of the Arctic Circle, boasts an average annual temperature a little below freezing. Residents eagerly await the brief spell in July when the region enjoys something akin to summer. This year they may have wished for a bit less of it.
307. TOBACCO was new to England in the 17th century, but even then, smoking had plenty of critics.
308. “LONELINESS is a crowded room,” as Bryan Ferry of the band Roxy Music once warbled, adding that everyone was “all together, all alone”. The open-plan office might have been designed to make his point. That is not the rationale for the layout, of course.
309. FOR the first time since independence in 1980, Zimbabwe goes to the polls on July 30th without Robert Mugabe on the ballot. Instead the old despot’s former sidekick, who took his place after a coup last year, is bidding for legitimacy, together with Zanu-PF, the ruling party.
310. “THIS is a pivotal moment in the history of Zionism and the state of Israel,” said Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister (pictured), in the early hours of July 19th. Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, had just passed a law stating that the right of national self-determination is “unique to the Jewish people”.
311. “SELL in May and go away,” say the denizens of Wall Street, and to the usual summer lethargy is added the excuse of a heatwave. But for those working in private equity, there is no let-up.
312. THERE is no shortage of water on Mars. Astronomers reckon that at least 5m cubic kilometres of ice is locked up beneath the planet’s dusty regolith. Whether any of it is liquid is a trickier question.
313. THE question of who would replace Sergio Marchionne has been in the air for a year or more, ever since the chief executive of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) announced that he would step down in 2019. But the way the answer came was both shocking and sad.
314. IN 2013 Cody Wilson, a self-described anarchist, fired the world’s first 3D-printed handgun. It was a crude, single-shot pistol made almost entirely of plastic. He called it the Liberator (pictured) and posted the printing manual, in the form of software code, online. It was downloaded nearly 100,000 times and reposted elsewhere.
315. TO WAKE up in an Airbnb apartment can be briefly disorientating. Where are you? The brushed steel, the exposed lightbulbs, the mid-century furnishings. The lively walls and bookshelves (a guide for hosts recommends accentuating “personality, not personal items”).
316. A REMARKABLE summit between the European Union and China in Beijing on July 16th marked a turning-point in Chinese views of the EU. Rules and laws bind the EU’s 500m citizens together, albeit scratchily at times. Chinese leaders are sniffy about polities that espouse rule of law as a founding principle.
317. TEN years after the incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American nuclear bombs, Japan embraced “atoms for peace”, a policy of civilian nuclear power championed by Dwight Eisenhower, America’s president.
318. SOMETHING strange is happening to Canada’s religious profile. As in many western countries, the share of Canadian citizens who call themselves Christian is in long-term decline. Those who profess “no religion” (which does not necessarily mean an indifference to the spiritual) is rising.
319. CONVENTIONAL wisdom holds that the surge in migration to Europe since 2015 has set off a backlash in anti-immigrant sentiment. Opinion polls, however, do not support this link. In November 2014 Eurobarometer began asking citizens of EU countries about their feelings towards immigrants.
320. THE most sinister aspect of Jehovah’s Witnesses, as they are portrayed in “Apostasy”, is the way their apocalyptic and authoritarian beliefs are disguised by the bland aesthetics of a corporate away day. Meetings in their drab white-and-beige “Kingdom Hall” might as well be marketing conferences in a chain hotel.
321. WORK can make you sick and shorten your life. That is the argument of a hard-hitting book* by Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In an obvious way, that claim is outdated. Health-and-safety rules help explain why deaths from accidents in American workplaces fell by 65% between 1970 and 2015.
322. THE scene in the centre of Afrin, a Kurdish city in north-western Syria, hardly inspires confidence in the future. A destroyed statue of a mythical Kurdish hero is a reminder of the plunder of the city after its capture earlier this year by Arab and Turkoman rebels backed by Turkish tanks, from Kurdish rebels.
323. SQUEEZING the top 1% ought to be the most natural thing in the world for politicians seeking to please the masses. Yet, with few exceptions, today’s populist insurgents are more concerned with immigration and sovereignty than with the top rate of income tax. This disconnect may be more than an oddity.
324. STAND-UP comedy had its first golden age 40 years ago. Between 1978 and 1988 more than 300 comedy clubs opened across America; along with big hair, shoulder pads and cocaine, laughs became a cultural commodity.
325. THERE is a scene in “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” in which Harry (Colin Firth) is snoozing through contract negotiations. They have been going on for 14 hours and, frankly, there’s somewhere else he would rather be. His interlocutors scold him: this deal could make his unspecified business the biggest in Europe! But Harry cares not.
326. ACROSS the world, freedom of the press is atrophying. According to scores compiled by Freedom House, a think-tank, the muzzling of journalists and independent news media is at its worst point in 13 years.
327. ALL should be rosy at Europe’s largest low-cost airline. Ryanair’s passenger numbers are growing and costs per seat-kilometre flown areâ€"just aboutâ€"lower than its competitors’.
328. NEARLY half of Americans consider income inequality to be a “very big” problem. At first glance, a report published this month by the Pew Research Centre seems to contain welcome news on this front.
329. IN DECEMBER 1989 Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist, set himself a Christmas project. Irked by shortcomings in other programming languages, he wanted to build his own. His principles were simple. First, it should be easy to read.
330. AMONG the Republicans cowering before President Donald Trump, the presence of Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan has been especially disheartening. Yet both threatened to regrow spines this week. “Russia is an adversary,” declared Senator Rubio, in response to the president’s fraternising in Helsinki.
331. NEWS OUTLETS call him “China’s Edward Snowden”. His fans worldwide call him “Brother Fu”â€"a tag now seen on T-shirts and in internet memes. Both labels are said to mortify Fu Xuedong, the shy Canadian-educated software engineer whose allegations about Chinese cyber-spying have been the summer surprise of 2024.
332. AS YOU WALK from classroom to classroom at Tibba Khara school on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan’s second-biggest city, the children seem to disappear. Pandemonium prevails in the first classroom, packed with five- and six-year-olds in their first year of school.
333. IT HAD SEEMED a small thing at the time. A court ruling in Ireland in March 2018 attracted little attention in a period when an uptick in growth meant the European Union was, for once, basking in an unexpected glow of optimism.
334. AS THE GLOBAL elite gathered this week for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, the exclusive Alpine mountain-biking resort, the picture was familiar. Rotorpods with blacked-out windows dropped off captains of industry, there to discuss the plight of the world, as they have since the 1970s.
335. THE EMAIL that landed in Eva Smith’s mailbox at 7pm on Friday October 13th 2028 had the ominous subject line “Changes”. Ms Smith, a director at a private-equity firm in New York, opened it with trepidation.
336. “DATA SLAVERY.” Jennifer Lyn Morone, an American artist, thinks this is the state in which most people now live. To get free online services, she laments, they hand over intimate information to technology firms. “Personal data are much more valuable than you think,” she says.
337. IT IS A bright morning in the eastern Mediterranean, and a small robotic watercraft operated by Greenpeace, an environmental group, is quietly approaching two fishing boats about 160 miles north of Egypt’s coast.
338. WAXING AND WANING from invisible new to full-beam full and back, month in and month out, the Moon is famously inconstant. But appearances deceive. Its aspect in the sky may change; the brute fact of there being 73 thousand trillion tonnes of rock orbiting at a distance of some 380,000km does not.
339. THE WORLD will need to rethink its approach to food as the planet warms and the population grows towards an expected 9.7bn people in 2050.
340. AUDREY HEPBURN DIED in 1993, but in 2013 she nevertheless starred in an advertisement for Galaxy, a type of chocolate bar. She was shown riding a bus along the Amalfi coast before catching the eye of a passing hunk in a convertible.
341. WHAT IF, INSTEAD of going to Memphis in April 1968 to lead yet another march, Martin Luther King had returned home, exhausted, to Atlanta? What if he had then avoided all his other would-be assassins and lived to old age well into the 21st century?
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343. IN JAPAN it is hard to avoid the disturbing spectacle of young girls being treated as sex objects. Rorikon, an abbreviation of “Lolita complex”, is ubiquitous.
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345. The “project of the century” may help some economies, but at a political cost
346. The former cricket star wins an election amid widespread allegations of cheating
347. But American farmers are already suffering the consequences of his policies
348. Conservatives should learn how not to tackle the Islamophobia in their own party
349. In the 40 years since its democratic constitution was adopted, Spain has achieved much, but it needs an overhaul, says Michael Reid
350. Worryingly, such weather events may not remain unusual
351. But they do help improve public health
352. Some workplace designs are more about cost-cutting than collaboration
353. In the first election since a coup, the party of Robert Mugabe deserves to lose
354. The law seems designed to upset minorities
355. They are reshaping Wall Street’s ecosystem
356. It’s 20km across and 1.5km beneath the southern polar ice cap
357. Will Mike Manley measure up to his predecessor?
358. American lawmakers are concerned about traceability and detectability
359. Protests will meet holidaymakers
360. It may not get the comfort it seeks
361. The nuclear material at the heart of Japan’s energy policy is becoming a liability
362. Religions gather strength as they cross the ocean
363. There is no correlation between recent flows of refugees and increasing resentment of foreigners
364. Written and directed by Daniel Kokotajlo, a former believer, the film is clear and courageous on the organisation’s failings
365. Poor health care and job insecurity shorten lives
366. Looting is on the rise, and residents are chafing under Islamist rule
367. Concentrated wealth leads to concentrated power
368. Can it prevent another bust?
369. The “Mamma Mia!” sequel shows how the band thrives in periods of political and economic gloom
370. Illiberal regimes are clamping down on independent media across the world
371. Europe’s largest airline has been hit by a series of walk-outs since it began to recognise trade unions
372. But not for reasons that should be celebrated
373. And its inventor has just stepped down
374. It is impossible to know whether the GRU swung the 2016 election, and therefore impossible to say categorically that it did not
375. As America defies and dismantles the international rules-based order, a report from the future imagines what might replace it
376. Their lives would be better, even if they did not learn very much
377. After the euro crisis and Brexit, Poland and Italy could open up new fissures within the EU. A report from 2020 imagines how
378. How the business world finally reached a milestoneâ€"and what had to change along the way
379. Driven by technological and legal changes, how far can the “gig economy” go?
380. Advocates of “data as labour” think users should be paid for using online services
381. How aquatic, autonomous robots could reduce lawlessness at sea
382. Whether complex life would still have arisen on Earth in the absence of the Moon is the subject of much debate
383. Examine the foodstuffs that might sustain mankind in 2050, right on your kitchen table
384. Once filmmakers have no need of human actors, expect more sequels, more lawsuitsâ€"and fewer opportunities for newcomers
385. Fifty years on, how might things have been different?
386. Our cartoonist, KAL, considers a truly hair-raising scenario
387. The root of the problem is not how society treats its young, but the way it treats women
388. Data workers of the world, unite
389. Sun, sex and bomb disposal
390. Summer's best books
391. Putin's Russia and the ghost of the Romanovs
392. Ramaphosa: can he deliver Mandela's dream?
393. Reservation in promotion for Scheduled Tribes
394. Bharti Airtel's consolidated Q1 net profit falls 74%
395. Aluminium rolling company Hindalco on Thursday said that its wholly owned subsidiary Novelis Inc has entered into an agreement to purchase Aleris Corporation for $2.58 billion in a debt finance deal.
396. India's leading biotechnology firm Biocon Ltd on Thursday reported Rs 120 crore consolidated net profit for the first quarter (Q1) of the fiscal 2018-19, registering 48 per cent growth annually from Rs 81 crore in the same period year ago.
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398. Indias leading biotechnology firm Biocon Ltd on Thursday reported Rs 120 crore consolidated net profit for the first quarter (Q1) of the fiscal 2018-19, registering 48 per cent growth annually from Rs 81 crore in the same period year ago.
399. Trump, EUs Juncker agree to work towards zero tariffs (Lead)
400. Artificial Intelligence-enabled Solutions to Power the Water Industry toward $695.96 Billion in 2018
401. Political bigwigs suffer shocking defeats in Pakistan polls
402. Gadkari apologises to Scindia (Lead)
403. Goa denies having talks with Karnataka over Mhadei water
404. Karunanidhi suffering from urinary tract infection
405. Action must against child abduction rumours in social media: MP
406. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday apologised to Guna MP Jyotiraditya Scindia in the Lok Sabha after he said he was not invited to an official function in his constituency in Madhya Pradesh and that his name was missing from the plaque.
407. The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will not have a sitting on Friday on account of Guru Purnima.
408. The West Bengal Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution renaming the state as "Bangla", with the Left Front and the Congress backing the move by the Trinamool Congress government.
409. Militants on Thursday forced entry into the guard post of a former Congress leader in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district and decamped with four rifles, police said.
410. The shocking starvation deaths of three minor girls may not be the first such incident in the national capital, which despite being the second wealthiest city in India, is battling food crisis and malnutrition of children, an activist said on Thursday.
411. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Thursday called a 12-hour nationwide strike on Saturday (July 28) to protest against the "anti democratic and anti poor" National Medical Commission Bill, 2017.
412. Punjab gets common facility centres for industrial growth
413. At the personal initiative of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, the Central government has sanctioned two common facility centres (CFCs) worth Rs 30 crore to facilitate industrial development in Punjab, it was announced on Thursday.
414. AIFF must respect IOA's decision of not sending teams to Asiad
415. U-19 Test: Sri Lanka trail by 250 runs against India on Day 3
416. Bahia beat Uruguay's Atletico Cerro 2-0 here in the first leg of their Copa Sudamericana second-round tie.
417. Formula One team McLaren on Thursday named James Key of the United Kingdom its new technical director, days before the Hungary Grand Prix.
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427. Mamata Banerjee brings up PM's gift of cows to Rwanda in WB assembly
428. Replacing UGC like 'external enemy' destroying a country: Yechury to Modi
429. Karunanidhi health sees 'slight decline
430. Opposition MPs raise concern over reported starvation deaths
431. Govt returns names of 2 judges for elevation to HCs, cites no reasons
432. Will raise H1B visa issue at 2+2 dialogue: Sushma Swaraj
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457. Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan today termed the Vodafone-Idea Cellular merger as a "big milestone", and said it will bring robust growth as also stability to the Indian telecom market which is good news for consumers. "We expect that with this merger, the market will begin to stabilise. We expect to see robust growth in the telecom sector with the emergence of three strong private sector players, and one public sector player," Sundararajan told . Government today gave final approval to the mega merger of Vodafone and Idea Cellular which creates India's largest mobile operator with about 35 per cent market share and nearly 430 million subscribers. The new telecom behemoth -- Vodafone Idea Limited -- will dislodge Bharti Airtel, the current market leader with 344 million customers from its pole position. Seeking to allay concerns that consolidation may lead to monopolisation or cartelisation in the Indian telecom sector, Sundararajan pointed out that US, China and Europe and other comparable markets operated with three players and that India was no different. "This is a long awaited merger and also a big milestone in the history of mergers in the country. Each player is a strong corporate, and I believe there will be more than enough competition, and good news for consumers," she said. She exuded confidence that the three companies will continue to infuse investments and come out with varied offerings to differentiate themselves in the market. "We want them to stay engaged in the Indian market," she said. The merger is expected to bolster the efforts of the debt-ridden firms Idea Cellular and Vodafone to take on the intense competition in the market where entry of Reliance Jio -- backed by India's richest man Mukesh Ambani -- has led to a bruising tariff war. Asked if the DoT's final approval for merger came with certain riders, Sundararajan said these were routine in nature, including the one which required companies to abide by the decisions of the courts with regard to payments made. Also, as and when the new company is formed, the bank guarantees of Vodafone will move over to Idea Cellular, she said.
458. State Bank of India (SBI) has approached the Telecom Department asking it to reconsider any move to cancel Reliance Communications' spectrum as it would cause "irreparable harm" to lenders like itself and jeopardise their ongoing efforts to recover dues. SBI and other lenders are engaging with the company to examine possibility of reissuance or extension of the bank guarantees, as required by the Telecom Department, the bank said in a letter. The move assumes significance as the debt-ridden Reliance Communications is under a temporary reprieve from telecom tribunal TDSAT till August 10 on licence and spectrum cancellation showcause notice served by the Department of Telecom. The showcause notice has cast a cloud on the company's debt reduction plans that entails sale of spectrum and other telecom assets to Reliance Jio for about Rs 17,000 crore. In a letter to Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan, SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar said that any action to revoke the spectrum allocation to Reliance Communications and Reliance Telecom would "seriously jeopardise the efforts of secured lenders to recover their dues". has seen a copy of the letter dated July 23, 2018, the same day the tribunal heard the matter and gave an order. "As a matter of policy, bank doesn't respond on individual accounts," an SBI spokesperson said in an e-mailed response to a query on the issue. According to the SBI letter, "The debt resolution plans and assets monetisation plans previously initiated by the secured lenders/company had not seen fruition. The proposed sale of spectrum and other assets appears to be viable chance of debt resolution for lenders including many public sector banks." If the proposed sale does not proceed as a result of spectrum allocation being revoked by the Telecom Department, the "lenders may not be able to recover funds lent thereby causing irreparable harm to SBI and all other lenders in the consortium," SBI warned. Urging the Telecom Department to reconsider the decision to initiate coercive action such as spectrum cancellation, it said doing so would give lenders a shot at recovering debts owed by the two Reliance companies -- Reliance Communications and Reliance Telecom. "In the meantime, the lenders including SBI are engaging with the companies to examine the possibility of re-issue/extending the bank guarantee subject of course to all due internal approvals of respective banks," the letter said. Earlier this week, Reliance Communications received a relief, till August 10, from the telecom tribunal on licence and spectrum cancellation showcause notice of Department of Telecom. Posting the matter for directions on August 10, the tribunal has instructed the respondent (Telecom Department) "not to give effect to the decision which it may take in the meantime". The Anil Ambani-owned RCom had recently approached the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) against the government's showcause notice on spectrum and licence cancellation. The company is learnt to have informed the TDSAT that while DoT has raised a demand for payment of Rs 774 crore on the company, the said payment has already been made to the government through encashment of previous bank guarantees or BG. Therefore, RCom contends it only needs to renew the encashed bank guarantees, which anyway will be payable only in March 2019. In its petition, RCom said it had approached the tribunal in anticipation of DoT's move (on termination or revoking of licences and withdrawal of spectrum) given that thousands of jobs and millions of subscribers would be at stake. RCom requested the TDSAT to set aside and quash the showcause notices dated June 19, 2018 and June 22, 2018 and "restrain" the Telecom Department from terminating or revoking the licences or revoking the spectrum held by the company. RCom is under debt resolution process under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) and has not been paying any dues till the completion of the process. RCom had said that if the deal with Reliance Jio goes through, the latter will take on deferred spectrum payment liabilities and any BGs given now by RCOM would anyway be replaced by the acquirer shortly. MBI ABM ABM
459. NASSCOM has started conversations with states on digital transformation after partnering with Niti Ayog for defining the national IT strategy, the IT industry body president Debjani Ghosh said today. "At the Central level, we have partnered with Niti Ayog for defining the National IT strategy. The next step for us is to work with states... We have started the conversations," she told reporters here on the sidelines of annual HR Summit organised by NASSCOM. She was responding to a question on whether the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) has taken up issues on digital transformation with various states. She said it was focussing on three topics -- what it can do to grow the innovation culture in the country, developing the right skills, working with the governments across the world to open new opportunities for Indian IT industry. Companies cannot leverage what it had done in the past and has to reinvent itself to stay ahead, she said. She also said the number of H1B visas issued between 2014-16 period to Indian IT professionals dipped by 43 per cent as lot of companies were becoming true multinationals. "Compared to the 2014-16 period, the number of visas issued has gone down by 43 per cent. It is because Indian companies are becoming true multinationals and we are localising where we are present. We are hiring local people", she said. Terming the discussion on H1B visa as 'political rhetoric', Ghosh said, "They (the discussion) are not translating into legislative action. So, we (NASSCOM) are watching it very closely. We are not taking anything for granted". "You know (US) President (Donald) Trump has come out with a document on skilling the US workforce. Indian IT companies in the US are one of the biggest investors in growing skills. So, we have to invest. There is a lot of discussion on that. We cannot do much about the political rhetoric (around the world)", she said. On hiring forecast for current financial year, Ghosh who took over as NASSCOM chief in April, said, "our projection is 100,000 new jobs this year. It means 100,000 incremental over last year". Noting that the opportunity in the digital transformation technology was 'huge', she said, the companies have to invest to leverage that opportunity. Internet of Things was one of the most important areas where new jobs were going to be created. Cyber Security would also provide new employment opportunities, she said.
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