Monday 16 April 2018

Netanyahu for his “full” support for strike on Syria

Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed his “full” support for US-British-French strikes on Syria, which he says conveyed a “message” of “zero tolerance for the use of non-conventional weapons,” according to Israeli media. During a phone call with his British counterpart Theresa May, he said that the same policy should be applied to “terrorist states and organizations” to prevent them from attaining nuclear capabilities. He then branded Iran as the main destabilizing factor in the Middle East, and warned Syrian President Bashar Assad that he jeopardizes his country’s domestic security and the stability of the entire region by hosting “Iranian bases.

Russia ready to provide transport, military police escort to OPCW in E. Ghouta, Syria

Russian military said it is prepared to provide special transport and a military police escort for inspectors of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in Eastern Ghouta, Syria. The chief of the center for the reconciliation of conflicting parties in Syria, Yury Yevtushenko, also told reporters that the center was prepared to provide assistance to ensure the security of the OPCW in Eastern Ghouta. The transport and Russian military police units may be provided “to maintain security,” TASS quoted Yevtushenko as saying.

Inauguration of TAITRA New Office

Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), Taiwan’s foremost trade promotion organisation, We request you to kindly join 17th April, 2018 at 330 PM at ITC Maurya, for the Industry 4.0 Forum/ Press Conference & Inauguration of TAITRA New Office  as per details below for 2018 India Taiwan Expo to be held in Delhi during May, 2018 and also please join the High Tea.
 
This press conference is focusing on introducing Taiwan Expo 2018, which is happening for the first time in India. Apart from this, there will be a session on ‘Exploring the Next Highland through Industry 4.0, AI & Co-Creation’ by Mr. Vincent Chang, Sales Head of Asia Pacific & Intercontinental Region, Advantech, where he will be sharing insights of the industry. This expo will mark the beginning of trade relationship between the two Countries.
 
Prior confirmation by email is must.
 
REGARDS
 
 Prof N K Goyal
President CMAI Association of India, Chairman Emeritus TEMA 
Member Governing Council Telecom Equipment & Services Export Promotion Council, Govt. of India
Vice Chairman, ITU APT India, Adviser Gujarat Technological University
Chairman India Trade Promotion Services, Dubai UAE,  
Director NFL National Fertilizers Ltd, Govt. of India
+91 98 111 29879, president_cmai@cmai. asiawww.cmai.asia
 
2018 India Taiwan Expo
Press Conference and Industry Forum
Event Agenda
Date: April 17
Time15:30-17:30
Venue: Sakya (B1), ITC Maurya, NewDelhi
 
Time
Activity
Notes
15:30-16:00
Media & guest registration
 
16:00-16:05
Emcee welcome remarks
 
16:05-16:10
Welcoming Remarks by Walter M. S. Yeh
President & CEO of TAITRA
 
16:10-16:15
VIP Speech by Mr.Som Mittal
Chairman of FICCI Electronics & White Goods Manufacturing Committee
 
16:15-16:20
VIP Speech by Mr. Champak Raj Gurjar
President, Federation of all India IT Associations (FAIITA)
 
16:20-16:25
VIP Speech by Prof. NK Goyal
President of CMAI Association of India
 
16:25-16:30
Photo Session
 
16:30-16:40
Introduction of the 2018 India Taiwan EXPO
 
16:40-17:05
Speech by Vincent Chang, Sales Head of Asia Pacific + Intercontinental Region, Advantech
Topic: Embracing the Industry 4.0 Opportunity
17:05-17:30
Networking & Coffee break
 
 
 
Regards,
Michael Lin
Director
Taipei World Trade Center Liaison Office in Mumbai
Center 1, 11 Fl., Unit 8, World Trade Center, Cuffe Parade, Mumbai 400 005

ON A JAMAICAN VACATION


ON A JAMAICAN VACATION
Craving for mind and soul refreshment this Summer?
Let your May revel in Caribbean style, only at “Tmrw Tday Cultural Fest!”

All India, 
Slow down, feel the white sand, taste the adventure, find treasures on the beach, find peace and revitalize your senses in this upcoming “Tmrw Tday Cultural Fest!”. Kick-starting May 1 to 6th May 2018, witness heart pumping DJs playing across while you take a plunge into the waters or as you indulge in the wanderlust in the tropical jungles.  Each day and night of your holiday, will get you grooving a little more, into the musical vibe at Negril, Jamaica!
Your seven-day roller coaster journey, packed with nature, wellness, art, music and dance, is sure to revitalise your mind, body and soul in true Caribbean shades of festivities. With a super indulgent line up including, Rasta river tours, Tribe talks, Farm to table delights, Cliff jumping & Cave swimming and much more, Tmrw Tday Cultural Fest aptly gives you a chance to skip the routine and design a sunnier day, from dawn till dusk.
Adding some more blossoms to this fun-filled programme, is the biggest fashion tour, “Style Week Jamaica” extending the Jamaican fashion hues till May 20th, 2018. This three-day of creative fever here, allow International designers to showcase exclusive accessories, blending in art and music, from all around the globe. The glamorous event is a perfect combination of local and overseas designers, edgy fashion, talented supermodels and excellent decor.
Desire, express, inspire
and soak-in the colourful Jamaican celebrations this holiday!

The team of ‘Daas Dev’ in New Delhi

Richa Chadda, Saurabh Shukla along with the team of ‘Daas Dev’ witnessed in New Delhi
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   Actress Richa Chadda along with another talented actor of Bollywood Industry Saurabh Shukla were witnessed in Nation’s Capital for the promotions of their upcoming romantic political thriller film ‘Daas Dev’. Along with them actor Rahul Bhat and director Sudhir Mishra were also present in the press conference held in Hotel Le Meridien. As their film is scheduled for release on the coming 20th April, therefore the entire team interacted with media and shared their experiences and views about the movie.
   While talking about the challenges Richa faced while portraying her character of Paro in the film, she stated, “Challenges are always there especially for the movie or stories which were adapted few times and everyone knew this character was portrayed by big artists as well, so yes it was challenging, but I must say this movie is different, holding a new motive and a believable adaptation. This Paro is bit tough, I don’t feel like nowadays Paro will cry for her Dev and will run after him in a saree. She has her own style and attitude, she rides her own scooty and bikes, showcasing her dignity and respect. Its an ego thing, we won’t judge her whether she is right or wrong. This movie is a great adaptation and I am sure people will like this film.”
  On the other hand, the director of the film Sudhir Mishra shared his views on the film, he said, “I feel like this movie will target all kind of audience. Every Indian understands politics and its addiction so I think this is the most accessible of my films. And there is no problem of understanding at all. The subtext of the film, that you can fix everything your relations, work but you can’t fix love. It’s a powerful story of political addiction where love is not possible, and how you overcome your addiction and see the positive side of love.” Whereas, Saurabh Shukla and Rahul Bhat also seemed confident about their upcoming flick.
   Well, featured under the banner of Storm Motion Pictures and Saptarishi Cinevision Production, ‘Daas Dev’ also features Aditi Rao Hydari, Vineet Kumar Singh and Dalip Tahil in complex supporting roles along with Anil George, Deepraj Rana, Saurabh Tyagi with Anurag Kashyap in a guest appearance.

Let’s talk about goats: Boosting India’s goat sector could double rural incomes

New Delhi, 16 April 2018 – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is partnering with the Government of India, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Agri-solutions, to host a two-day conference starting today to discuss how to significantly improve the goat sector in rural areas, specifically in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Odisha states.

Raising goats is an income-generating activity that has enormous potential to increase incomes and improve nutrition for resource poor households, especially in remote, tribal and ecologically vulnerable areas. It is an activity that requires minimal investment and input costs. Goats are also prolific breeders and have a good survival rate in drought prone areas.

India has the second largest global goat population and has the potential to increase its role and profits in the lucrative global goat market.

Building a vibrant goat sector in India is critical to reducing poverty, meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and India’s own rural development goal of doubling farmers’ income by 2022. In this context, the conference will bring together international technical experts and national policymakers. Krishna Raj, Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, will deliver the keynote address. 

“We can really have an impact on poverty reduction because we can demonstrate that we can double smallholder producers’ incomes by improving their goat production and by connecting them to the increasing market demand for mutton and goat meat,” said Antonio Rota, IFAD’s Lead Technical Specialist on Livestock.

“There are various parties that are ready to invest. We would like to help producers and interested parties come together and create the kinds of lasting partnerships that support goat producers and allow them access to the untapped market as equal partners. IFAD is specialized in brokering public, private, producer partnerships. We can make a change by helping rural communities develop and improve the goat sector,” Rota added. 

The two-day event will be followed by a learning route which will include visits to locations that host the latest developments in the goat sector in the country – innovative health service delivery, commercial farming, modern processing, and links to markets.



Contact:
Susan Beccio
Communications Division
Tel: +39 06 5459 2479
Mobile: +39 334 953 3030
Press release No.: IFAD/29/2018

UK New Political Part Funding : Election 3 May 2018


Renew Britain
Dear Naresh Sagar
We are crowdfunding for the Local Elections on the 3rd May
Help Renew, the UK’s new centrist political party, to put up a challenge to the established parties in this year’s local elections. 

Send a message to your MP to oppose Brexit by voting for Renew.

We are also the only credible party for defending the rights of EU citizens, who can vote in the local elections. Help us build a party for the politically homeless.

Please donate to our Crowdfunding campaign so we can print more leaflets, hand out more merchandise, have more street stalls and raise the profile of Renew (whilst staying within the agreed expenses laid out by the Electoral Commission).

Here is a copy of our Press Release which explains in more detail our Local Election campaign.

Please go to our crowdfunding website to donate: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/renew-local-election-campaign
If you want to get involved and help for the local elections please contact:
North East – Judi Sutherland judi.sutherland@renewbritain.org 
Wandsworth – Tom Austen tom.austen@renewbritain.org
London (outside of Wandsworth) James Torrance james.torrance@renewbritain.org
Breaking news from Renew
Just in:Renew were at the campaign launch of the People’s Vote!We will keep you updated on our efforts for a Vote on the final Brexit deal,and how we need your help to achieve this.See you on the next Renew Rally!
Kind regards,
David 
David Britten
Director of Operations
0203 239 1692

US & allies precision Syrian strike reactions

UN SC reports the action of attack is against UN Charter Syrian Ambassador to UN called the attack very irresponsible and terms attackers liars.
US Trump said , Assad uses again chemical weapon then US to repeat the sttack.
Turkey’s President Erdogan says action by US and allies sends Syria’s government message that its massacres will not be left unanswered.
Germany to meet with France, Britain and the United States in London on Sunday to discuss their next steps after airstrikes were launched against Syria early on Saturday, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said. The talks will be held in the British capital to coordinate further actions, the minister told reporters in Berlin. 
The German with better coordinating terms are banking for finding solution to Syrian on going war from 7 years.
Putin, Erodogan, Assad find the momentum of air strike for better big bang.
US General said attack is successful  and are to remind for no chemical attack.
US allied attack on Syria  has following reaction across global leaders.
Barbaric attack, won’t affect fight against terrorism – Syria Strikes without UNSC mandate a violation of intl law – Putin
‘Mission accomplished’ – Trump
Respect other countries’ sovereignty – China
Those who attacked Syria are ‘criminals’ – Iran

Saina beat Sindhu win Gold at CWG-18

Saina Nehwal beat Pusarla Sindhu 21-18, 23-21 to win the women’s singles badminton gold at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday.
In an keenly contested  final between two champions, Saina  was in her elements and experience best made her emerge triumphant. This is her second gold medal of the ongoing games, having won the mixed team event earlier.

Urvashi Salaria Chawla represents UK in the forthcoming Mrs. India UK pageant

Delhi’s Urvashi left no bars to represent Indian Married Women for Mrs. India UK 2018 Pageant
Celebrity Make-Up Artist and Entrepreneur, Urvashi Salaria Chawla represents Indian married women in the UK in the forthcoming Mrs. India UK pageant

    Urvashi Salaria Chawla from Delhi, India is a finalist for “Colors TV UK presents Mrs. India UK 2018 organized by BrandWok”. As she left no bars to represent the Married Indian Women on such a big platform. Academically Urvashi is a journalism graduate, worked in the aviation industry, a beauty blogger and now a successful entrepreneur in the makeup industry who owns a beauty studio in India and is an esteemed Asian Bridal Makeup Artist in London. She’s now representing married Asian women residing in the UK in such a massive platform.
   Urvashi is a renowned celebrity makeup artist who has been married and residing in London for four years. After moving to London, she started working with NHS and was decently settled there, but then she decided to follow her passion for make-up. She then opted for setting up a business in India which called for strenuous frequent travels. With her hard work and determination, Urvashi settled a beauty business in Delhi, and this is where her success story took off. She became a very successful and leading entrepreneur in the beauty and makeup industry within a very short span of time. She is also an environmentalist by nature who believes in spreading awareness about climate change. She has been doing a lot of plantation drives and also has been closely associated with volunteering in environmental activities like WWF Earth Hour campaign. Urvashi believes in expressing the notion of “beauty with a purpose”. She will be competing with 30 other multi-talented finalists.
   Mrs. India UK is a unique pioneer pageant in the United Kingdom for British Indians and Asian married women residing in the United Kingdom. Mrs. India UK aims to encourage, empower women and provide opportunities to married women. It ensures learning, development, building confidence and strengthening the bond between a diversified culture of Indians abroad. Urvashi and all the other contestants of Mrs. India UK have been going through intensive training with various mentors. They’ve had sessions for fitness, catwalk, acting, photoshoot and much more during this journey. Urvashi tells, “Our mentors have been super helpful and supportive throughout our journey focusing on individual attention. Not just that – they’ve been mentoring us through online sessions too.”
    Urvashi recently won the subtitle of Mrs. Glamorous at Mrs. India UK 2018. The finale of this beauty pageant is on 15th April at Hilton Tower Bridge, London.

Meet Nugget, The Award Winning Mobile phone


‘MEET NUGGET’, THE AWARD-WINNNG MOBILE PHONE GAME TAKING INDIAN TEENS BY STORM

A teenager’s mobile that doesn’t have Nugget on it has no right to be called a ‘mobile’ at all!” Says Priyanka Chopra
Intrigued? Well, meet Nugget, the award-winning mobile phone game for teenage girls and boys that is taking India by storm. Nugget’s motto is “Jhel mat. Khel.” The aim of the game is for the player to identify those interfering adults who kill their vibe and escape their influence to notch up a fat score. It seeks to create, among its players, a recognition of gender stereotyping and the need to escape the force-field it represents.
Admiration for Nugget does not stop with Priyanka Chopra. With over 1.6 lakh downloads to date and topping the Google Play store charts for a whole week, Nugget is making waves with teenagers across India. The judges at GoaFest 2018 – India’s premier advertising awards show – were no exception, awarding Nugget a bronze in the Mobile Game/App category. The only other winner in this category was Jio KBC, also awarded a bronze.
BBC Media Action, with funding from UNICEF, has developed a multi-platform communication initiative in India to address gender equality among adolescents. The initiative uses a diffusion of innovations approach to reach adolescent boys and girls aged 10-19 years and their parents, in primarily peri-urban geographies. The communication initiative spans multiple outputs, including television drama, radio, IVR content, graphic novels, activity books and a mobile phone game.
245 million adolescents in India represent a huge potential demographic dividend that has a critical role to play in achieving national priorities. Reaching that goal, however, will be impossible without building the confidence and competence of adolescents to focus on their dreams and aspirations. Most adolescents struggle as they make the complex transition from childhood to adulthood, characterised by significant biological, emotional and psychological changes. They lead lives limited by the ‘force-field’ (or lakshmanrekha) of social expectations, where they fail to recognise gender stereotyping, and how that limits their growth and development.
The one thing Enid Blyton would tell you, is that every protagonist needs an antagonist. In the case of our mobile game, our androgynous protagonist, Nugget, has six antagonists who represent the forcefield that circumscribe the lives of adolescents. Users helped us identify and crystallize these antagonists through a human centred design process. Those antagonists who represent various pressure points in an Indian adolescent’s life, have been gamified as Ungly Aunty or Aunty Needle, Tank-jhank Padosi or Nosy Neighbour, Fenku Uncle or Uncle Hyperbole, Show Off Dost or Show Off Pal, Kalesh Bua or Aunt Give-some-grief andChugalkhor Chacha or Unca Snitch. Each character is presented as a stylized arm – one that could crush Nugget – unless the player can help Nugget escape the pressure.
It’s a simple and familiar arcade game that we’ve all played at some stage in our lives. What makes it unique is Nugget’s story about the pressures and the forcefield created by these real and recognisable characters that surround every adolescent.
Nugget is androgynous so that players, irrespective of gender, can identify with the protagonist. The content in the game – both text and audio – is in a conversational blend of Hindi and English that has become lingua franca for urban teens.
Nugget has been developed using a human centred design process. The cast of characters, gameplay, content, have all been designed based on input from users, and everything has been tested with users’ multiple times to ensure the best chance of success.
Nugget can be downloaded from Google Play Store or you can download by clicking here
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Poker Sports League.

A plethora of sport leagues have sprung up in India seeking to popularize a sport by repackaging and presenting it in an exciting format. What started off with Cricket and saw major success, has now spread to Kabaddi, hockey, football and wrestling among others.
The latest to join this list is Poker.
Poker Sports League is the brainchild of Mr. Amit Burman, Mr. Anuj Gupta and Mr. Pranav Bagai which was established last year, with a mission to establish poker as a sport in the country. It is India’s first professional poker league, which gives the opportunity to state level teams & all poker lovers to become a part of the league. Poker Sports League at its very core attempts to popularize poker as a sport by putting on display in abundance, a combination of skill, mathematics, decision making and grit which are required in the right mix to emerge as a champion.
With the emergence of massive online poker tournaments and fantasy leagues, the time is ripe for the Poker Sports League to formalize the poker story in India. With over 20,000qualifier participations pan India in the very first year, one can safely infer the potential of poker in the country. PSL in some sense is laying the foundation for an International tournament and has the right ingredients to become a global brand.
In order to draw parallels between chess & poker & set the foundation for poker to be considered a mind game, PSL has also appointed Viswanathan Anand, the chess maestro, as their Brand Ambassador, in November last year. DSPORT, a premium sports TV channel by Discovery Communications India, has acquired the exclusive rights to broadcast Season 2 of the Poker Sports League (PSL), the world’s first franchise based poker league. This will be the first ever broadcast of Texas hold’em poker in India.
Delhi Panthers, owned by Rishi Kajaria of Kajaria Ceramics took home INR 1.5 crore as prize money. The league in the inaugural year became an instant hit. Not just with the players on the table or the passionate franchisees following their teams but also with millions of other poker sports followers. Season One live streaming registered 4.5 million views on FB & PSL Final Table recorded 1.28 million views.
Poker Sports League, undoubtedly is one of the most sought after leagues in the poker industry & is currently in its 2nd season. Brand Ambassador of PSL, Mr. Viswanathan Anand will make his first media appearance along with the co-founders to announce the 12 teams for this season & unveil the winning trophy. Attached herewith, is the media invite for an exclusive Press Conference. Would be great if you could confirm your availability for the event & your interest to catch up for a quick interaction with the team owners, co founders of PSL & the Chess Maestro on April 15th, PlayBoy Club, Hotel Samrat, New Delhi, at 2pm.

US, UK, France strike Syria to cripple chemical weapons

UK PM May said this limited attack is not to intervening  in civil war or Regime change or Assad change and not to damage civilian.  This is to damage Chemicals weapons. UK attacked from Cyprus air base.France from his Marine Missiles  carriers doz misseles each by France UK.
No misseles  was intercepted by Syrian forces.
US president  Trump said he has aporoved & asked his forces for precision  attack in Syria.Later he tweeted Mission accomplished.
Britain, France, US have air attacked 100 guided missiles, Duma in Syria.With Pentagon  press conference on BBC reports the attack was to cripple two production, storage and one RD  facilities  of Chemical weapons in Duma in Al Aasad  Era.
General MacKenzie  narrated that we did not want to be in civil war of Syria  but We dont want chemicsl weapons use as per 17 nation International convention.
Russia  FM  Lavrov in its press conference said  act is before the inspector to arrive and gather facts and Swiss reports are with Russia but experts from France did not snswer the question.
Russia  FM said this is unexpected and lawlessness  called for UN SC meeting .
BBC freelance jounalist said the precision attack was not symbolic but it is devastating  for demolishing  Syria forces but no loss to civilion but there was numerous people raising anti US slogans for overnight attack.
BBC reports

Richa Chadha promotes film ‘Daas Dev ‘

   Actress Richa Chadda along with another talented actor of Bollywood Industry Saurabh Shukla were witnessed in Nation’s Capital for the promotions of their upcoming romantic political thriller film ‘Daas Dev’. Along with them actor Rahul Bhat and director Sudhir Mishra were also present in the press conference held in Hotel Le Meridien. As their film is scheduled for release on the coming 20th April, therefore the entire team interacted with media and shared their experiences and views about the movie.
   While talking about the challenges Richa faced while portraying her character of Paro in the film, she stated, “Challenges are always there especially for the movie or stories which were adapted few times and everyone knew this character was portrayed by big artists as well, so yes it was challenging, but I must say this movie is different, holding a new motive and a believable adaptation. This Paro is bit tough, I don’t feel like nowadays Paro will cry for her Dev and will run after him in a saree. She has her own style and attitude, she rides her own scooty and bikes, showcasing her dignity and respect. Its an ego thing, we won’t judge her whether she is right or wrong. This movie is a great adaptation and I am sure people will like this film.”
  On the other hand, the director of the film Sudhir Mishra shared his views on the film, he said, “I feel like this movie will target all kind of audience. Every Indian understands politics and its addiction so I think this is the most accessible of my films. And there is no problem of understanding at all. The subtext of the film, that you can fix everything your relations, work but you can’t fix love. It’s a powerful story of political addiction where love is not possible, and how you overcome your addiction and see the positive side of love.” Whereas, Saurabh Shukla and Rahul Bhat also seemed confident about their upcoming flick.
   Well, featured under the banner of Storm Motion Pictures and Saptarishi Cinevision Production, ‘Daas Dev’ also features Aditi Rao Hydari, Vineet Kumar Singh and Dalip Tahil in complex supporting roles along with Anil George, Deepraj Rana, Saurabh Tyagi with Anurag Kashyap in a guest appearance.

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