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  1. Union ministers to travel to Pakistan to attend groundbreaking ceremony of Kartarpur corridor for Sikh pilgrims
  2. HM Rajnath Singh says govt will not compromise with security, integrity & unity of the country
  3. President Ram Nath Kovind returns to India after completing successful two-nation visit of Vietnam & Australia
  4. UP govt unveils picture of grand statue of Lord Ram that it proposes to install in Ayodhya
  5. J&K: Four terrorists killed in encounter with security forces in Shopian district
  6. Land leasing act yet to find many takers across state governments: NITI Aayog - Knn India
  7. Modi condoles actor Ambareesh's death
  8. Taiwan rejects same sex marriage
  9. Ladakh freezes, Kargil minus 9.5
  10. Hizbul, LeT militants killed in J&K
  11. 25 killed as bus plunges into canal in Karnataka (Lead)
  12. Thackeray, family embark on Ayodhya political 'pilgrimage
  13. Mexico agrees to support US planned asylum policy
  14. Turkey against US plans to establish observation posts in Syria
  15. Veteran Kannada films rebel star Ambareesh dead (Second Lead)
  16. Africa launches campaign to tackle issue of street children
  17. Ram Temple 'Dharam Sabha' in Ayodhya LIVE: It's either now or war, says VHP
  18. Atletico denied long-awaited win over Barca, Eibar stun Real
  19. Atletico Madrid came within a whisker of their first league win over Barcelona in eight years on Saturday only for Ousmane Dembele to dash their hopes with a dramatic equaliser in injury-time.
  20. Haas confirm they plan appeal Force India decision
  21. The Haas team on Saturday gave official notice that they will appeal a stewards' decision dismissing their protest against Force India's status following their take-over by a consortium in August.
  22. Ronaldo, Mandzukic on target as Juventus ease past SPAL
  23. Cristiano Ronaldo continued his hot form for Juventus on Saturday as he and Mario Mandzukic scored both goals in the second consecutive game to help the Serie A leaders open up a nine-point lead at the top of the table with a 2-0 win over struggling SPAL.
  24. Thousands protest in 'feminist tidal wave' against sexist violence
  25. Tens of thousands of people rallied across Europe on Saturday against sexist violence, with more than 30,000 turning out in Paris.
  26. On Black Friday, more U.S. shoppers chose the computer over the mall
  27. Ram Temple 'Dharam Sabha' in Ayodhya LIVE: VHP calls rally 'last effort
  28. UK parliament seizes cache of Facebook in Cambridge Analytica probe
  29. Why May's battle may not be over despite EU's 11th-hour nod for Brexit deal
  30. Peter Moore, CEO of Liverpool FC, shares his recipe for success in the first of our “Voices of Success” video series.
  31. Voices Of Success: Liverpool FC CEO Embraces Creative Destruction
  32. Self-made billionaire Stan Perron has died at age 96.
  33. Stan Perron, Australian Billionaire And Friend Of Japan, Dead At 96
  34. Russian Hackers Said To Be Impersonating U.S. State Dept. With Phishing Campaign
  35. Forbes Asia Investment Briefing: As Trade War Tensions Build, So Does Risk Of Recession
  36. Amazon's Jeff Bezos To Spend Nearly $100 Million To Address Homelessness
  37. Wu Yajun Hands Fortune Worth $8.1 Billion To Daughter
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  52. \"Featured Block - blog - Position 3 - Asia's 2018 Heroes Of Philanthropy: Putting Wealth To A Good Cause\
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  69. One of the world’s richest women has handed over shares in her flagship company to her daughter.
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  81. EU wont offer better deal on Brexit: Theresa May
  82. Sanaa: Visiting UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths (R) meets with Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head of Houthi revolutionary committee, in Sanaa, Yemen, Nov. 24, 2018. The Houthi rebels in Yemen on Saturday pledged to attend the upcoming peace talks in Swe
  83. Hyderabad: Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala along with other leaders of the party, releases a charge sheet against the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Government headed by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao in Hyderabad, on Nov 24, 20
  84. New Delhi: Indian boxing legend M.C. Mary Kom after clinching a record sixth World Championship Gold medal in the light flyweight 48 kilogram category after outclassing Ukraines Hanna Okhota 5:0 thereby scripting history, at the K.D. Jadhav Indoor S
  85. Panaji: Differently abled people arrive at the screening of the film Hichki organised during the 49th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-2018) at Mequinez Palace in Panaji, on Nov 24, 2018. (Photo: IANS)
  86. New Delhi: Three of a five member gang of Bangladeshi nationals, that was involved in several cases of crimes including robbery, murder, burglary in police custody after they were arrested following an encounter in Delhis Taimur Nagar area, on Nov 2
  87. Varanasi: A view of the illuminated Ganga Ghat during Dev Deepawali celebrations in Varanasi on Nov 23, 2018. (Photo: IANS)
  88. Patna: RJD leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh addresses a press conference in Patna on Nov 23, 2018. (Photo: IANS)
  89. Kriti Sanon and Kartik Aaryans film Lukachhupi ,FIRST LOOK OUT!!
  90. Housefull 4 will be four times funnier: Riteish Deshmukh
  91. Riteish advises Kriti Sanon on her attitude
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  93. Moody's Analytics Earns #4 Spot in 2019 Chartis RiskTech100A®
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  95. LexisNexis® releases a new module on FEMA (Foreign Exchange Management Act) in association with Kochhar & Co. for its Lexis® Practical Guidance Solution
  96. City's Dr. Supriya Puranik Added Another Feather to Her Cap
  97. Harsimrat, Puri to represent India in Kartarpur corridor ceremony in Pak
  98. Shiv Sainiks home bound journey from Ayodhya rescheduled
  99. Caste a curse on society: Venkaiah Naidu
  100. Kejriwal gives Rs 1 crore to kins of Delhi Police martyrs
  101. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday condoled the death of veteran Kannada actor M.H. Ambareesh and said he will be remembered for his memorable performances and extensive contribution to politics.
  102. VHP Dharma Sabha Live updates: Massive rally set to begin, Ayodhya tense
  103. TDP MP's documents reveal Rs 5,700 crore bank fraud: ED
  104. Security beefed up in Ayodhya ahead of rallies
  105. Sushma Swaraj not to visit Pakistan for Kartarpur Sahib event on November 28
  106. ED searches offices of ex-union minister Sujana Chowdary
  107. View: The problem is the Brahminical system, the basis of which is inequality
  108. Water could be the next big test for India's private sector
  109. TDP MP's documents reveal Rs 5,700 cr bank fraud
  110. America could be sitting on a climate time bomb
  111. It’s raining petrol pumps ahead of general election
  112. It’s raining petrol pumps as poll season nears
  113. 10 years after 26/11, does India feel safer?
  114. Startup India is finding echoes across states
  115. A hot button could mess up RBI-govt truce
  116. In poll bound Rajasthan, government and political leaders are ignoring artisans
  117. The massive rally is expected to begin at at 11 a.m.
  118. Private sector has done wonders for many sectors. Can it do the same for one of India's biggest problems?
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  121. It’s raining petrol pumps ahead of general election
  122. VHP rally live: Ayodhya tense ahead of Dharma Sabha
  123. The new guidelines follow the government reservation norms for disadvantaged sections of the society but give operational flexibility to companies in appointments.
  124. Climate change could slash up to a tenth of GDP, more than double the losses of the Great Recession
  125. Apart from Swaraj, Qureshi also invited Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and state cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu to the ceremony.
  126. Among states, Karnataka has seen a fair amount of activity in privatising urban water supply. After a World Bank-sponsored pilot project to supply water to 200,000 people in Hubbali-Dharwad, Belagavi and Kalaburgi in Karnataka, similar projects in Hubbali-Dharwad, Bijapur and Ilkal have been awarded to Veolia, where there are 285,000 beneficiaries. West Bengal has also awarded water supply projects to private companies in Haldia and a part of Salt Lake City. Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Steel, is executing both projects through JVs.Veolia, Suez (another French company) and SPML Infra, among others, have been tasked with providing 24X7 water to parts of Delhi like Nangloi, Malviya Nagar and Mehrauli. These projects, which had an initial cost of Rs 1,350 crore, reportedly came under the Central Bureau of Investigation scanner for alleged irregularities in the tendering process. “The political opposition to private ownership and control of water remains strong. The municipal bodies and water utilities also feel that they will lose control of water supply to private companies due to long contract periods,” says Subhash Sethi, chairman of SPML Infra.If a water utility run by an Indian private company is problematic to many, one run by a multinational company could be considered disastrous. “Nobody objects to an MNC in a road project,” says Chatterjee. Ajoy Mehta, Mumbai’s municipal commissioner, believes the private sector will have to come into water supply at some point. “We need their efficiency but pricing will have to be controlled by a public body.”Availability of water 24X7 is crucial to the Union government’s Smart Cities Mission. A city with a metro rail network and smart traffic management still does not amount to much if it cannot ensure continuous water supply to its residents. While it is true the PPP models of highways and airports cannot be replicated in urban water supply, it is clear that private companies can play a critical role in whipping our urban water infrastructure into shape. It goes without saying the government needs to monitor these projects more closely than other infra projects given the criticality of water.
  127. Cannot guess if Rahul is speaking in India or Pakistan: Yogi Adityanath
  128. Arnold was first approached to play villain in 2.0
  129. Arnold Schwarzenegger was first approached to play the villain of 2.0
  130. British filmmaker Nicolas Roeg dies at 90
  131. Mary Kom wins record sixth World Championships gold
  132. ICC Women's World T20 2018: Ashleigh Gardner's all-round performance seals 4th title for Australia
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  135. Sri Lanka vs England Live Cricket Score, 3rd Test Day 3: England look to build on Sri Lanka's collapse
  136. Boca bus attacked, Libertadores final suspended
  137. Remember me as a fighter, says departing Fernando Alonso
  138. Ousmane Dembele salvages Barcelona late draw at Atletico Madrid
  139. International Meatless Day: Feed your muscles with these good quality vegetarian protein sources
  140. Sri Lanka vs England Live Cricket Score, 3rd Test Day 3: England lose Keaton Jennings on first ball
  141. Mann Ki Baat LIVE: PM Modi to address 50th edition of his monthly radio programme today
  142. Bengaluru Comic Con Organisers Thought It’s Okay To Put Adult Comics In Kids’ Goody Bags
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  194. Sri Lanka v England: Jennings falls to first ball of day
  195. Copa final postponed after bus attack
  196. Grenade lobbed at house of sarpanch in Pulwama
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  198. Not on a strong wicket in poll-bound Telangana albeit due to organisational weaknesses, the BJP will not leave any stone unturned to reap maximum political benefits in the fast approaching December 7 polls in the southern state.
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  200. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday extended birthday greetings to Tripura's first BJP Chief Minister Biplab Deb and lauded him for his hard work.
  201. Return of ancient sculptures part of trail of stolen artefacts from India
  202. SR announces change of pattern in train services due to late running of pairing trains
  203. PM, Amit Shah extend birthday greetings to Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb
  204. Devotees arrested for conducting 'Namajapam' at Sannidanam
  205. BJP to intensify ongoing protests over arrest of senior party leaders on sabarimala issue
  206. SR announces change in pattern of train services due to late running of pairing trains
  207. Four militants killed in encounter in Kulgam district
  208. Four militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, the Army said.The four were killed
  209. Rain lashes Rameswaram
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  211. Let-up in rain comes as relief to delta districts
  212. ₹1 crore allotted for mosquito eradication drive
  213. Power supply to Vedaranyam to be restored soon: Minister
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  215. Youngsters must help people in getting justice: judge
  216. Youngsters must use their education wherever possible to help people in getting justice, said Justice S. Vimala, Judge, Madras High Court, here on Sat
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  218. It will benefit patients in Madurai, Karaikudi, Tiruchi and Karur, says Apollo Hospitals
  219. Dog Squad’s retired tracker Raja dies
  220. Raja, a retired service dog of the Dog Squad of Coimbatore City Police, died here on Saturday. According to Dog Squad officials, the nine-year-old Dob
  221. 11th edition of Coimbatore Vizha launched
  222. The 11th edition of Coimbatore Vizha, to be held from January 4 to 12, was launched here on Saturday. L. Balaji Saravanan, Deputy Commissioner of Poli
  223. Governor’s move on J&K Bank evokes outrage in the Valley
  224. PSU tag for it an assault on State’s special status: Mehbooba
  225. Police beef up security in Pathankot
  226. The Punjab police have launched a search at Shadipur village in Pathankot after a local farmer said he had seen five or six suspicious-looking men car
  227. Myanmar army men enter Manipur village
  228. Ask villagers to halt construction, sparking tension
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  233. After missing SUV, Punjab grapples with another scare
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  236. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu will lay the stone for the NTR Sagar Godavari-Penna Interlinking project at Nakerikallu on Monday.Speaker Kodela S
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  • Even when Arun Goenka, businessman and veteran stock market investor, works out of his office in the congested Mumbai suburb of Andheri East, the 61-year-old keeps recalling another, far away place â€" the village he grew up in, Neamathpur in Paschim Bardhaman district of West Bengal. The mining region, around Asansol, was one of the earliest industrialised belts of the country. Goenka’s family, which started off as suppliers to British-owned coal mines in the 1920s and then diversified into multiple businesses, was also among early investors in Indian stock markets. Goenka shows off one of his prized possessions, a share certificate of The Dhakeswari Cotton Mill, issued in 1948 to his father â€" Biswanath Goenka of Neamatpur. An enlarged and framed copy of the share certificate adorns one of the walls in Goenka’s Andheri office. The love for shares and certificates has clearly been passed on. A chartered accountant by training, Goenka started investing as a student â€" by buying odd lots of shares lying with friends and relatives â€" often one share at a time. Today he is happy to display his collection of physical share certificates, old and new, of obscure and dead companies as well as of marquee names like L&T and Bharat Forge.
  • Could this obsession with physical share certificates survive this demat age? Regulators are pushing for share transfers only through dematerialised instruments â€" the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has said that transfer of shares of listed companies has to be in dematerialised mode from December 5. Even now, more than two decades after dematerialisation of physical shares began in the 1990s, active investors like Goenka still hold on to some physical certificates. While many old-timers cherish the touch and feel of the paper, other reasons too deter them from going fully demat â€" like the cost of conversion or investments having turned into junk.According to an estimate, around 2% of shares of the 1,599 companies listed on National Stock Exchange (NSE) are still in physical form â€" that’s around 1,169 cr shares. The list from BSE, which has 5,000 listed companies, would be bigger.It was earlier this year that Sebi and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) pushed for dematerialisation of shares of listed as well as unlisted companies by setting deadlines for physical transfers. Physical shares, however, may not become extinct anytime soon. New shares are still being issued. For instance, any shareholder who owns shares in physical form gets new physical shares when there is a bonus issue.Like the outcry system and finger symbols for communication among brokers for trading, transfer of physical shares through the stock exchange have been prohibited for some time now. Only transfers of ownership of physical share certificates through a transfer deed were allowed.Sebi has now banned transfers, other than those through inheritance, beyond December 5, for all listed entities. The MCA action on unlisted companies mandates them to get all shares dematerialised, and also to not issue any fresh physical shares.The sheer number of physical shares that exist out there cannot be dematerialised in a trice. It will be a slow process, depending on the need to monetise them.Pranav Haldea, managing director of Prime Database, says that he often encounters people who have recently found shares or inherited some. “The vintage of the company and the width of the base of its shareholding often determine how much of its shares are still in physical form,” he adds.Kamal Parekh, a veteran in the equities game and former president of the Calcutta Stock Exchange, says the push towards dematerialisation is a good thing. Parekh recalls an incident from the mid-1980s when he lost money on an investment because he was abroad. The signatures on a certain set of shares were his and they could not be sold by his company until he returned to India and affixed his signature â€" meanwhile, the share price plummeted.“I recall fighting over dematerialisation with DR Mehta, who headed SEBI, when I was heading the Calcutta Stock Exchange. Now I can be honest. In hindsight, dematerialisation has helped a lot,” Parekh says. “The biggest scam of our times by Harshad Mehta was also about duplicate shares. A repeat of this is prevented by dematerialisation.” Parekh admits that even today, in his old office of Stewart Securities Ltd in Dalhousie Square, Kolkata, there would be four or five cupboards full of share certificates. “I have thousands, probably lakhs, of dud shares. There is no need to dematerialise them. Their value would not justify the cost of dematerialisation,” Parekh says.However, the dual moves by Sebi and MCA have spurred some brokerages and financial services companies to cash in. For instance, Muthoot Securities, a Kochi-based brokerage, has reached out to unlisted public limited companies, educating them about the MCA order and helping them dematerialise their shares. Rajesh GR, CEO of Muthoot Securities, told ET Magazine that Muthoot has helped around 25-30 companies dematerialise their entire shareholding.Rajesh feels that all brokerages should educate investors. “In case an unlisted company wants to introduce a strategic investor or sell a stake, the entire process will now face a 30-45-day delay if their shares are not already dematerialised.”Mumbai-based financial services firm IIFL has helped investors dematerialise the shares owned by them. Narendra Jain, president of IIFL, told ET Magazine that there are still many investors who have physical shares with them; most of them may be dormant investors or those who inherited shares.
  • Jain says: “Usually we get a steady stream of investors asking to dematerialise their physical shares. This number has doubled in the last threefour months.”Not everyone is convinced that dematerialisation solves problems. Goenka cites the example of his niece Sugandha. When she was studying in a primary school, shares of Syndicate Bank were applied for in her name. A year after the allotment of shares, her name was changed to Megha in school records. Later, after her wedding, her surname too changed. The family has been trying to get the shares transferred to her name for years, without any success. All they have is a thick file of correspondence, including offers to provide indemnity bonds and bank guarantees, but nothing has worked.
  • Gupta, who is also a former executive director of Sebi, told ET Magazine: “With physical share certificates, transparency becomes a problem. As a regulator, I would like to have full transparency, and that happened through dematerialisation.”Gupta says that while the cost of converting the shares and holding them in dematerialised format could be an excuse for casual investors with a few shares, the argument doesn’t hold for any large investor with more than 100 shares. “You have to follow the system, the system cannot adapt to every investor,” he adds.An interesting case among the large Indian companies is ITC Ltd. Data on dematerialisation dug out by Prime Database shows that the company still has a little over 30% of its shares in physical format â€" a large number for a company of its size. The corresponding number for Reliance Industries is only 1.42%. ITC’s foreign shareholder British American Tobacco or BAT still holds the shares of the company in physical share certificates.
  • By Nitin A Gokhale In the collective memory of the rest of India, the terrorist attack on Mumbai in November 2008 â€" more popularly known as 26/11 â€" may have become a hazy event, but for Mumbaikars, especially those who lived through the horrific three days of mayhem and bloodbath, the nightmare will not go away ever. The cliché about Mumbai’s famed resilience is out of place and does not take into account the permanent scars the attack has left on the residents of the megapolisA decade after 26/11, the post-event developments can at best be termed a mixed bag. While the anti-terror grid across the country has been strengthened, we still don’t know if these measures are adequate to tackle future, more lethal attacks. The general reluctance in India to learn hard â€" and correct â€" lessons from a tragedy makes one slightly cynical about the efficacy of changes that have certainly taken place in the country’s intelligence and security setup since those fateful days in 2008. Were India a more introspective nation-state, the post-attack enquiry would have been brutally frank and not a half-hearted, ticking-the box ritual that the Pradhan Commission turned out to be.
  • By all accounts, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had planned the attack like a military operation through a set of highly indoctrinated, motivated and well trained Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists. And yet it has got away with any tangible punishment for an outrageous and brazen attack on India’s financial capital. The execution of the plan was flawless too until an unarmed but brave Mumbai police constable, Tukaram Omble, managed to pin down one of the terrorists, Ajmal Kasab, at the cost of his own life. Kasab’s testimony, his subsequent trial and finally his execution may have brought closure to one of the strands of the conspiracy but the bizarre trajectory of a sham trial in Pakistan has continued to cast a long shadow on India-Pakistan relations.Consider this: The case in a Pakistan anti-terror court against seven people charged with planning, financing and supporting the Mumbai terror attack has seen at least seven judges being changed and a determined prosecutor dying under mysterious circumstances in the past nine years. Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency identified many Pakistani and Indian witnesses once the case began. While the statements of the Pakistani witnesses have been recorded, Pakistani authorities continue to plea that unless Indians also give their statements, the case cannot proceed. Indian legal experts say this is just a pretext as Indians can only give forensic evidence and eyewitness accounts but cannot reveal how the conspiracy was hatched. In any case, the Pakistani case fails to name the key conspirator LeT chief Hafiz Saeed in the charge-sheet.
  • By Coral Davenport and Kendra Pierre-LouisA major scientific report issued by 13 federal agencies Friday presents the starkest warnings to date of the consequences of climate change for the United States, predicting that if significant steps are not taken to rein in global warming, the damage will knock as much as 10 percent off the size of the US economy by century’s end.The report, which was mandated by Congress and made public by the White House, is notable not only for the precision of its calculations and bluntness of its conclusions, but also because its findings are directly at odds with President Donald Trump’s agenda of environmental deregulation, which he asserts will spur economic growth.Trump has taken aggressive steps to allow more planet-warming pollution from vehicle tailpipes and power plant smokestacks, and has vowed to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, under which nearly every country in the world pledged to cut carbon emissions. Just this week, he mocked the science of climate change because of a cold snap in the Northeast, tweeting, “Whatever happened to Global Warming?”But in direct language, the 1,656-page assessment lays out the devastating effects of a changing climate on the economy, health and environment, including record wildfires in California, crop failures in the Midwest and crumbling infrastructure in the South. Going forward, American exports and supply chains could be disrupted, agricultural yields could fall to 1980s levels by midcentury and fire season could spread to the Southeast, the report finds.“There is a bizarre contrast between this report, which is being released by this administration, and this administration’s own policies,” said Philip B. Duffy, president of the Woods Hole Research Center.All told, the report says, climate change could slash up to a tenth of gross domestic product by 2100, more than double the losses of the Great Recession a decade ago.Scientists who worked on the report said it did not appear that administration officials had tried to alter or suppress its findings. However, several noted that the timing of its release, at 2 p.m. the day after Thanksgiving, appeared designed to minimize its public impact.Still, the report could become a powerful legal tool for opponents of Trump’s efforts to dismantle climate change policy, experts said.“This report will weaken the Trump administration’s legal case for undoing climate change regulations and it strengthens the hands of those who go to court to fight them,” said Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton.The report is the second volume of the National Climate Assessment, which the federal government is required by law to produce every four years. The first volume was issued by the White House last year.The previous report, issued in May 2014, concluded with nearly as much scientific certainty, but not as much precision on the economic costs, that the tangible impacts of climate change had already started to cause damage across the country. It cited increasing water scarcity in dry regions, torrential downpours in wet regions and more severe heat waves and wildfires.The results of the 2014 report helped inform the Obama administration as it wrote a set of landmark climate change regulations. The following year, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized President Barack Obama's signature climate change policy, known as the Clean Power Plan, which aimed to slash planet-warming emissions from coal-fired power plants. At the end of 2015, Obama played a lead role in brokering the Paris Agreement.But in 2016, Republicans in general and Trump in particular campaigned against those regulations. In rallies before cheering coal miners, Trump vowed to end what he called Obama's “war on coal” and to withdraw from the Paris deal. Since winning the election, his administration has moved decisively to roll back environmental regulations.The report puts the most precise price tags to date on the cost to the U.S. economy of projected climate impacts: $141 billion from heat-related deaths, $118 billion from sea level rise and $32 billion from infrastructure damage by the end of the century, among others.The findings come a month after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists convened by the United Nations, issued its most alarming and specific report to date about the severe economic and humanitarian crises expected to hit the world by 2040.But the new report also emphasizes that the outcomes depend on how swiftly and decisively the United States and other countries take action to mitigate global warming. The authors put forth three main solutions: putting a price on greenhouse gas emissions, which usually means imposing taxes or fees on companies that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere; establishing government regulations on how much greenhouse pollution can be emitted; and spending public money on clean-energy research.A White House statement said the report, which was started under the Obama administration, was “largely based on the most extreme scenario” of global warming and that the next assessment would provide an opportunity for greater balance.The report covers every region of the United States and asserts that recent climate-related events are signs of things to come. No area of the country will be untouched, from the Southwest, where droughts will curb hydropower and tax already limited water supplies, to Alaska, where the loss of sea ice will cause coastal flooding and erosion and force communities to relocate, to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, where saltwater will taint drinking water.More people will die as heat waves become more common, the scientists say, and a hotter climate will also lead to more outbreaks of disease.Two areas of impact particularly stand out: trade and agriculture.Trade DisruptionsTrump has put trade issues at the center of his economic agenda, placing new tariffs on imports and renegotiating trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement. But climate change is likely to be a disruptive force in trade and manufacturing, the report says.Extreme weather events driven by global warming are “virtually certain to increasingly affect U.S. trade and economy, including import and export prices and businesses with overseas operations and supply chains,” the report concludes.Such disasters will temporarily shutter factories both in the United States and abroad, causing price spikes for products from apples to automotive parts, the scientists predicted. So much of the supply chain for American companies is overseas that almost no industry will be immune from the effects of climate change at home or abroad, the report says.It cites as an example the extreme flooding in Thailand in 2011. Western Digital, an American company that produces 60 percent of its hard drives there, sustained $199 million in losses and halved its hard drive shipments in the last quarter of 2011. The shortages temporarily doubled hard drive prices, affecting other American companies like Apple, HP and Dell.American companies should expect many more such disruptions, the report says.“Climate change is another risk to the strength of the U.S. trade position, and the U.S. ability to export,” said Diana Liverman, a University of Arizona professor and co-author of the report. “It can affect U.S. products, and as it drives poverty abroad we can lose consumer markets.”Agricultural RisksThe nation’s farm belt is likely to be among the hardest-hit regions, and farmers in particular will see their bottom lines threatened.“Rising temperatures, extreme heat, drought, wildfire on rangelands and heavy downpours are expected to increasingly disrupt agricultural productivity in the U.S.,” the report says. “Expect increases in challenges to livestock health, declines in crop yields and quality and changes in extreme events in the United States and abroad.”By 2050, the scientists forecast, changes in rainfall and hotter temperatures will reduce the agricultural productivity of the Midwest to levels last seen in the 1980s.The risks, the report noted, depend on the ability of producers to adapt to changes.During the 2012 Midwestern drought, farmers who incorporated conservation practices fared better, said Robert Bonnie, a Rubenstein Fellow at Duke University who worked in the Agriculture Department during the Obama administration. But federal programs designed to help farmers cope with climate change have stalled because the farm bill, the primary legislation for agricultural subsidies, expired this fall.The report says the Midwest, as well as the Northeast, will also experience more flooding when it rains, like the 2011 Missouri River flood that inundated a nuclear power plant near Omaha, Nebraska, forcing it to shut down for years.Other parts of the country, including much of the Southwest, will endure worsening droughts, further taxing limited groundwater supplies. Those droughts can lead to fires, a phenomenon that played out this fall in California as the most destructive wildfire in state history killed dozens of people.The report predicts that frequent wildfires, long a plague of the western United States, will also become more common in other regions, including the Southeast. The 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires, which killed 14 people and burned more than 17,000 acres in Tennessee, may have been just the beginning. But unlike in the West, “in the Southeast, they have no experience with an annual dangerous fire season, or at least, very little,” said Andrew Light, a co-author of the report and a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute.Climate change is taking the United States into uncharted territory, the report concludes. “The assumption that current and future climate conditions will resemble the recent past is no longer valid,” it says.There is always some uncertainty in climate projections, but scientists’ estimates about the effects of global warming to date have largely been borne out. The variable going forward, the report says, is the amount of carbon emissions humans produce.
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