PCS executive examination: BJP flays Punjab govt's move to reduce attempts available to SC aspirants

Chugh said that Capt Amarinder government has amended the Punjab State Civil Services Rules (Appointment by Combined Competitive Exams), framed on October 20, 2009 and a notification in this respect has also been issued according to which only four chances would be given to SC candidates for Judicial Executive exams taking away their right to avail unlimited chances. The BJP leader said that the government of Punjab has done so without the prior approval of National Scheduled Castes Commission and Punjab State Scheduled Castes Commission. Chugh said he would be meeting Union Social Welfare Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot and National Scheduled Castes Commission in the national capital and handing over memorandums to them to bring the issue to their notice. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttp://krachelart.com/UserProfile/tabid/43/userId/179999/Default.aspx

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Raghuram Rajan signals Brexit politics deterred him from seeking BOE job

'It's best a country has someone who understands the political situation within that country and knows how to navigate that,' Rajan told the BBC. 'It's obvious I'm an outsider and I have very little understanding of the deep ebbs and flows of politics in that country.' Rajan, who now teaches at Chicago Booth School of Business and once served as chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, was recently named as the second most likely to get the BOE job by economists in a Bloomberg News survey. He trailed Andrew Bailey, the chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority. 'Perfectly Happy' UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond started searching for a replacement for Carney in April and has attracted 30 applications. He met with Rajan in January, according to the Treasury, although Rajan declined to tell the BBC if he had been approached to run the central bank. 'I'm perfectly happy in my job,' he said. 'I haven't applied for any job.' Hammond, who is likely to exit the Treasury once a new prime minister takes office next week, had spoken of looking for a new governor with international experience. Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen also didn't apply, a person familiar with the matter said this week. The reluctance of foreign economists to step forward may boost the chances of domestic contenders such as Bailey or current BOE officials Andrew Haldane, Jon Cunliffe, David Ramsden and Ben Broadbent. Others linked to the role include Shriti Vadera, the Santander U.K. Plc chair, and Sharon White, outgoing chief executive officer of regulator Ofcom. Gerard Lyons, a former economic adviser to Boris Johnson, the likely next prime minister, has been interviewed for the job, according to The Times. Rajan knows first hand of the political challenges of being a central banker. He left India's central bank after just one term amid heavy criticism from segments of the government for offering opinions on matters unrelated to monetary policy. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttp://benoit.gaillard.aricie.net/UserProfile/tabid/2042/userId/7943/Default.aspx

NBC to wrap up Will and Grace reboot in 2020

In a joint statement, the new show's producers said they consulted with the cast in deciding to bring Will & Grace to a close. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttps://www.advancedphotoshop.co.uk/user/reetasignaas

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Rising Tory star: Rishi Sunak

s chief secretary to the treasury, Sunak will work closely with Pakistani-origin Sajid Javid, who has been shifted from home secretary to chancellor.Sunak is now responsible for the government's "spending reviews and strategic planning, public sector pay and pensions, efficiency and value for money in public service, procurement, capital investment, transport policy, including HS2, Crossrail 2, Roads, Network Rail, Oxford-Cambridge corridor, women in the economy, childcare policy, including tax free childcare" and other issues.Compared with the two other Indians in the cabinet -Priti Patel, the new home secretary, or even Alok Sharma, promoted from minister of state for employment to secretary of state for international development - Sunak has so far avoided the limelight. But that could change.On Thursday, he gave his first interview in his new job to the BBC, explaining why he thought the government could put new money into the host of ambitious plans Boris has announced."The good news is - and I pay tribute to the outgoing chancellor (Phillip Hammond) for doing a very good job of managing our nation's finances over the past few years - we are in a relatively healthy position at the moment," he said."We have built up fiscal headroom - £26bn is available to be deployed on the priorities that British people want to see: more investment in, for example, police on the street, slightly more funding on our schools."Asked to clarify whether this was old money, he explained: "This is the headroom that we have that has not been allocated and deployed in various priorities."Appointed around midnight on Wednesday, Sunak attended his first cabinet meeting at 8.30am on Thursday and sat at one end of the table.He told BBC Breakfast TV that Boris needed to appoint people committed to his priorities.The Times has described the departure of 17 members of Theresa May's government as an "afternoon of carnage. the most brutal cabinet purge in modern political history"."Ruthless Johnson takes his revenge," was the headline in The Guardian, which saw the sackings of Jeremy Hunt (foreign secretary), Penny Mordaunt (defence), Liam Fox (international trade) and Greg Clark (business) as a "merciless purge" of his detractors from May's cabinet.But Sunak, a supporter of Boris and of Brexit who had kept his head below the parapet, justified Boris's decision to appoint a cabinet in his own image."It is important that people around that table are committed to these priorities: delivering Brexit, and this exciting domestic agenda he outlined," he said.About his own background, Sunak said he was not born to privilege. "My grandparents arrived in this country with little. My parents, a GP and a pharmacist, grew up wanting a better future for their children."He paid tribute to his parents for making it possible for him to have a "great education". He was head boy at Winchester, one of Britain's leading public schools where the Nawab of Pataudi Jr had been a pupil and captain of cricket in the 1950s ("I am a great admirer of Tiger Pataudi").He was an undergraduate at Lincoln College, Oxford, and took a First in PPE (philosophy, politics and economics) before going to Stanford to do an MBA as a Fulbright scholar.In August 2009, he married Narayana Murthy's daughter Akshata at a relatively simple but elegant and high-profile wedding in Bangalore. The couple, who have two daughters, Krishna and Anoushka, had met as students at Stanford.The wedding guests included Azim Premji, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Anil Kumble, Praful Patel, Nandan M. Nilekani, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Captain G.R. Gopinath, K.V. Kamath, Syed Kirmani and Prakash Padukone.Sunak's background in business will come in useful. Before going into business, he co-founded a multinational investment firm.Others in Boris's cabinet include the new party chairman, James Cleverly, who was born in London to a British father and a mother from Sierra Leone.Kwasi Kwarteng, minister at the department for business, energy and industrial strategy, who was born in London to parents who migrated to the UK from Ghana as students in the 1960s, is cleared to attend cabinet. He was a King's scholar at Eton and read classics and history at Cambridge.In addition to the cabinet appointments, Boris has also brought in Munira Mirza, who was born in Yorkshire to Pakistani parents, as the head of the policy unit at 10 Downing Street.During Boris's time as mayor of London, Mirza, who read English at Oxford, was a deputy mayor with responsibility for education and culture. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://www.theverge.com/users/junavenomes

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and his team of 16 working on Kashmir, NRC

Of these officials, two hold posts of Secretaries, three are Special Secretaries, three Additional Secretaries and eight are Joint Secretaries. The officials, sources said, have started streamlining their tasks under newly-appointed Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, a 1984 batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre IAS official, who was on July 24 appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Home Ministry. Bhalla will take over as the new Home Secretary, succeeding incumbent Rajiv Gauba who retires on August 31. He would assist Shah with his experiences during his two-year tenure till August 2021. Shah's Private Secretary Saket Kumar is also among his top team members. A 2009-batch IAS from Bihar cadre, Kumar, as per current deputation, would be assisting the Home Minister till July 29, 2023. Others key officials of the team include Secretary, Official Language, Shailesh, Secretary, Border Management, B.R. Sharma, Special Secretary, Internal Security, A.P. Maheshwari, Special Secretary and Financial Advisor Bhupendra Singh, Special Secretary, Centre-State, Satpal Chouhan, Additional Secretary, Jammu and Kashmir, Gyanesh Kumar, Additional Secretary, Union Territories, Govind Mohan and Additional Secretary, PM, Vivek Bhardwaj. Joint Secretary, Left-Wing Extremism, Praveen Vashista, Joint Secretary, Northeast, Satyendra Garg, Joint Secretary, Foreigners, Anil Malik, Joint Secretary, Border Management-I, A.V. Dharma Reddy, Joint Secretary, Police-I and Police-II, Amitabha Kharkwal and Joint Secretary, Internal Security-I, S.C.L. Das are among others in the team. The two women officials include Joint Secretary, Women Safety (with additional charge of Internal Security-II), Punya Salila Srivastava and Joint Secretary, Border Management-II, Nidhi Khare. Maheshwari, a 1984 batch IPS officer, appointed to the Ministry in February beginning to replace Rina Mitra, has been reportedly got Shah's approval to deal with internal security matters with a more muscular approach to maintain law and order. He will hold the post till his retirement on February 28, 2021. Additional Secretary, Jammu and Kashmir, Gyanesh Kumar and Joint Secretary, Northeast, Garg will be assisting Shah in dealing issues of insurgency in the Valley and completion of the National Register of Citizen (NRC) in Assam, respectively. Besides the Team 16, the Home Minister's juniors Nityanand Rai and G. Kishan Reddy, both holding charges of Minister of State for Home, would be playing crucial role in completing his five year target. Reflecting his indisputable trust in Amit Shah, who continues to be BJP President, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inducted the first-time Union Minister into eight cabinet committees after forming the government for the second time. Modi's most trusted lieutenant since the 1980s when both started their political careers in Gujarat, he made a grand entry in the Union Cabinet on May 31 replacing Rajnath Singh, who has moved to the Defence Ministry across the road in South Block. Emerging from the backstage, from where he directed the BJP's spectacular ascent, he is in the forefront of Modi 2.0 government. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The New Indian Expresshttps://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/users/ubeedbeeebu/

Epstein found unconscious in jail

he Bureau of Prisons did not immediately respond to requests for information. The department of justice declined to comment.Last week, Judge Richard M. Berman of the Federal District Court denied bail for Epstein, rejecting his request to be detained at his Upper East Side mansion as he awaited trial.His lawyers had proposed allowing him to post a substantial bond and stay in his mansion guarded by 24-hour security, at his expense. Prosecutors opposed that proposal, arguing Epstein was seeking "special treatment" and trying to build his own private jail - a "gilded cage".Epstein, 66, was arrested on July 6 at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey after a flight from Paris. He is being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.An indictment unsealed on July 8 charged him with sex trafficking and conspiracy. Prosecutors said that between 2002 and 2005, Epstein and his employees paid dozens of underage girls to engage in sex acts with him at his homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida.Epstein faces up to 45 years in prison if he is convicted of sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges, and the long sentence, the government argued, gave him a motive to flee.He has pleaded not guilty.For years, Epstein, a hedge fund manager, has socialised with famous and powerful people including former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew of Britain and President Trump.An investigation into accusations against him was opened in Florida in 2005. But in 2008, prosecutors in Miami made a secret deal that allowed Epstein to avoid federal prosecution. He spent about a year in a Palm Beach jail, where he was allowed to leave six days a week for work.The plea deal was overseen by R. Alexander Acosta, then a US attorney in Florida. He was widely criticised as letting Epstein off the hook and has since resigned as Trump's labour secretary.When Judge Berman denied Epstein's bail on July 18, he said Epstein was a flight risk, citing his "vast wealth" - prosecutors say they believe he is worth more than $500 million - including private planes and residences abroad.He pointed to a safe the authorities said they found in Epstein's Manhattan home that contained cash, diamonds and an expired passport issued by a foreign country (later identified as Austria) that had Epstein's photo but a different name.Two women who said Epstein had abused them bolstered the government's argument, urging Judge Berman to deny him bail."He's a scary person to have walking the streets," said Courtney Wild, who said Epstein began sexually abusing her when she was 14. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://www.intensedebate.com/people/hueenbseein

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Another one bites the dust?

Speaker disqualifies 14 more Karnataka MLAs; vote today The Congress-JD(S) combine has the support of only 100 MLAs (excluding the Speaker) giving enough indications of which way the trust vote on Monday is likely to go. The BJP slammed the Speaker's action, calling it 'unfair and violative of the law'. Last week, Mr Kumar had disqualified three MLAs — Mr Ramesh Jarkiholi and Mr Mahesh Kumatalli of the Congress, and Ranebennur KPJP MLA R. Shankar (who later merged with the Congress) for violating the whip issued by their party. Addressing a hurriedly-called press conference on Sunday, the Speaker said Congress Legislature Par-ty leader Siddaramaiah and KPCC president Dinesh Gundurao had filed four petitions against the rebel MLAs seeking their disqualification since they had violated the whip issued by the party. Former CM H.D. Kuma-raswamy had filed another petition seeking similar action against three rebel JD(S) legislators. All legislators were issued notices to personally appear on specified dates; but none of them turned up. After going through several judgments, the Speaker said he had decided to disqualify Pratap Gouda Patil (Maski), B.C. Patil (Hirekerur), Shiva-ram Hebbar (Yellapur), S.T. Somashekar (Yesvant-pur), Byrathi Basavaraj (KR Puram), Anand Singh (Vijaynagar), Roshan Baig (Shivajinagar), N Munira-tna (Raja Rajeshwari Nagar) , Dr K Sudhakar (Chikballapur), Srimanth Patil (Kagawad), M.T.B. Nagaraj (Hosakote), all Congress MLAs and A.H. Vishwanath (Hunsur), Narayana Gowda (KR Pete) and N Gopalaiah (Mahalakshmipuram) Asked whether the disqualified legislators can question his decision in a court of law, the Speaker said. 'I have done my job, I am not worried (about its consequences). I will be vindicated if the court upholds my decision and I will stand corrected if my decision is changed. I have discharged my duty in the given situation and not acted under any pressure.' Replying to a question regarding the BJP's reported plan to move a motion of no-confidence against him, he said, 'Whatever I have done is purely as per the law, let the next Speaker ponder over it,' dropping broad hints that he is planning to step down on Monday. The Speaker also made it clear that there are only two items on the agenda of the session on Monday—one, the CM seeking a vote of confidence and two, the debate and voting on the finance bill which needs to be passed by Tuesday. Reacting to the verdict disqualifying them, Hunsur JD(S) rebel MLA A.H. Vishwanath remark-ed that the Speaker had announced his decision in a hurry and it seemed like he was under great pressure to pronounce his decision at the earliest. 'We will definitely question this decision in the Supreme Court,' he said. Another rebel MLA, Mr Pratap Gouda Patil said they had expected this decision after the Speaker disqualified three legislators last week. This was not the end for them as they have already decided to question the Speaker's decision in the apex court, he added. However, Mr Siddaramaiah, in a tweet, hailed the Speaker's decision describing it as "a victory for democracy." In another tweet he said the order will send a strong message to elected representatives across the country who might fall into the 'BJP's trap'. The BJP slammed the Speaker's action, calling it 'unfair and violative of the law' which, it said, had been taken 'yielding to the pressure from a party'. 'It is a motivated and defective order," said senior BJP leader Govind Karjol, adding, the rebels would challenge it in the Supreme Court, where they were certain to "get justice.' ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttp://benoit.gaillard.aricie.net/UserProfile/tabid/2042/userId/7920/Default.aspx Any chances of reviving the project look very bleak for the moment,' a source informs us. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttp://www.equestrianbookfair.com/UserProfile/tabid/57/userId/1839/Default.aspx