Li Keqiang visit to Europe

ON JULY 4, 2018 BY NARESH SAGARLEAVE A COMMENTEDIT

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

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

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

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

IIT engineers develop painless needles technology

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

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

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

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

Swede,England in Qtrs, Russia WC2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ON JULY 4, 2018 BY NARESH SAGARLEAVE A COMMENTEDIT

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

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

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

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

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

Earthquake of Magnitude:4.5

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

Rudra Chaudhuri Named Next Director of Carnegie India

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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Rudra Chaudhuri Named Next Director of Carnegie India

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

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

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

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

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