North Korea, US say nuclear talks to resume this weekend

It is my expectation that the working-level negotiations would accelerate the positive development of the DPRK-US relations," Choe said in the statement, using an abbreviation for North Korea's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.The U.S. confirmed the talks."I can confirm that US and DPRK officials plan to meet within the next week. I do not have further details to share on the meeting," said state department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus, who is traveling with secretary of state Mike Pompeo in Rome.Nuclear negotiations have been at a standstill for months following a February summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump in Hanoi, Vietnam. Those talks broke down after the US rejected North Korean demands for broad sanctions relief in exchange for partially surrendering its nuclear capabilities.North Korea followed the summit with belligerent rhetoric and a slew of short-range weapons tests that were widely seen as an attempt to gain leverage ahead of a possible resumption of negotiations.Choe's announcement came after North Korea praised Trump last month for suggesting that Washington may pursue an unspecified "new method" in nuclear negotiations with the North. North Korea also has welcomed Trump's decision to fire hawkish former national security adviser John Bolton, who advocated a "Libya model" of unilateral denuclearisation as a template for North Korea.The 2004 disarmament of Libya is seen by Pyongyang as a deeply provocative comparison because Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was killed following US-supported military action in his country seven years after giving up a rudimentary nuclear program that was far less advanced than North Korea's.The office of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who lobbied hard to set up the first summit between Kim and Trump last year in Singapore, welcomed Choe's announcement and expressed hope that the resumed talks would result in "substantial progress" in denuclearisation and stabilization of peace.Under the high-stakes diplomacy between Trump and Kim, which has been driven chiefly by the personalities of the leaders rather than an established diplomatic process, working-level meetings have been useful for fleshing out the logistics of summits but unproductive in hammering out the details of a nuclear deal that has eluded the countries for decades.The stalemate of past months has revealed fundamental differences between the two sides. North Korea says it will never unilaterally surrender its nuclear weapons and missiles and insists that US-led sanctions against it should be lifted first before any progress in negotiations.The Trump administration has vowed to maintain robust economic pressure until the North takes real steps toward fully and verifiably relinquishing its nuclear program.Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, said progress in working-level negotiations would depend on several factors, including whether Kim empowers his officials to negotiate concrete steps and whether the Trump administration embraces "a phased approach where summits and sanctions relief must be earned, butdenuclearisation is not decided all at once."There are doubts about whether Kim would ever voluntarily deal away an arsenal that he may see as his strongest guarantee of survival.In his first public appearance since his departure from the White House, Bolton on Monday gave a characteristically pessimistic outlook on the prospects for nuclear negotiations with the North and challenged Trump's foreign policy without directly mentioning the president.At a forum in Washington hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Bolton said Kim has made a "strategic decision" to do whatever he can to keep his country's nuclear weapons and that is an "unacceptable" threat to the world."Under current circumstances, he will never give up nuclear weapons voluntarily," Bolton said. "This is a government that has essentially violated every international agreement it has ever made."After their Singapore summit in June 2018, Trump and Kim issued a vague statement calling for a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula without describing how or when it would occur.The lack of substance and fruitless working-level talks set up the failure in Hanoi, which the Americans blamed on what they said were excessive North Korean demands for sanctions relief in exchange for dismantling an aging nuclear facility in Yongbyon. Trump and Kim met for the third time at the inter-Korean border on June 30 and agreed that working-level talks between the countries should resume. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://www.capture.se/Support/Profile/userId/77075

Ground personnel at 17 airports to undergo breathalyser tests from today, rest to follow

In addition to this, several airlines, including AirAsia, Air India, GoAir, IndiGo, SpiceJet and Vistara are also implementing the norm from October 2. 'The roll out will be partial and completed before 30th of October 2019 as mandated…,' the statement said. Once implemented, in addition to cockpit and cabin crew undergoing breath analyser tests to check the level of alcohol in their blood, airside ground personnel and air traffic controllers (ATCs) will also have to undergo the test, as per a civil aviation requirement issued by the DGCA. The regulations stipulate that all such personnel undergo the alcohol test prior to reporting for duty, and it also says that the organisations engaged in the provision of air navigation services, aerodrome management, aircraft maintenance and repair, shall ensure that at least 10 per cent individuals employed in their respective organisations as engaged in such functions are randomly subjected to breath-analyser examination on a daily basis. In the case of a first violation, the licence of the concerned personnel will be suspended for three months. In the case of a second violation, the suspension will be for one year and for the third violation it will be for three years. If a fourth violation happens, then the licence shall be cancelled permanently. Internationally, rules laid down by the global aviation regulator ICAO states that holders of licences 'shall not exercise the privileges of their licences and related ratings while under the influence of any psychoactive substance which might render them unable to safely and properly exercise these privileges'. The US Federal Aviation Administration and the UK Civil Aviation Authority have also developed and published their policy for detection of consumption of psychoactive substance including alcohol by personnel engaged in safety sensitive functions. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttp://mysmarterhome.ca/UserProfile/tabid/42/userId/48508/Default.aspx

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Book review: Beloved child of Mother Bapu

Coming to terms with this experiment adequately, Bhikhu Parekh wrote, 'would require access to the diaries of Manu, one of the women involved in Gandhi's experiments.' (Others did not write a diary.) The 12 volumes of her writings, including four of the diary, remained in safe hands for decades, before landing in the National Archives of India around 2013. The secrecy was understandable. When Gandhi had started sleeping naked with young women in 1946-47, amid innuendos and whispers, he had an uncharacteristic instruction for his grand-niece Manu, 'And don't let this diary fall into the hands of any and every person.' He was right: some of the early journalistic reports which appeared in 2013 verged on sensationalism, on the lines of 'in bed with Bapu'. For those wishing to engage with the diary in its full context, the National Archives is publishing the diary in two volumes, the first of which is out in English (and soon in Gujarati), edited and translated by Tridip Suhrud. Manu (Mridula Gandhi), granddaughter of the Mahatma's cousin, entered the Gandhi story at a particularly tragic phase of his life. After the call of Quit India in 1942, Gandhi along with Kasturba, his personal secretary Mahadev Desai and others was detained at the Aga Khan Palace in Poona. Desai died that year with his head in Gandhi's lap. Kasturba, unwell, would not survive long. Manu, all of 14-15 and badly in need of a maternal figure after the death of her mother, arrived in the palace to look after Kasturba, and to learn a variety of life skills from Gandhi and company. Following a well-established tradition going back to the Stoics, Gandhi saw diary-writing as a preeminent tool of self-examination, and advised the teenager to start writing one. She began in 1943, and did not continue after Gandhi's demise. The writing shows a progression from daily accounts in bullet points to complex descriptions. Manu reports on mundane aspects of life, hers and Gandhi's. From being woken up early for prayers, preparing juices, cooking, giving a massage to Ba, studying the Gita, reading the Ramayana, spinning, learning science, mathematics and English from Pyarelal and Sushila — and getting the previous day's entry checked by Bapu. Gandhi, amid personal and political crises, found time to correct her orthography, give tips on grammar and make self-writing a better spiritual practice. The diary covers the critical and glorious final phase of Gandhi's saga, picking up from where Mahadev Desai left off. Like him, Manu wrote the diary not as a report of her day, but of Gandhi's. Beyond that, it would be unfair to compare a barely literate teenager to 'Gandhi's Boswell'. Her diaries will be primarily remembered for the complementing viewpoint she brings to Gandhi's brahmacharya experiment, which will appear in the second volume. The experiment, undertaken from December 1946 to February 1947, came amid the 'great miracle' when Gandhi was largely successful in ending communal violence in Noakhali. It remains mired in questions: Did Gandhi, in his Seventies, need to test his celibacy? Was it moral to subject young women, for his own objectives, to what could be a highly revulsive experience? Does formal consent have any weight when it is urged by someone of Gandhi's stature? Also, did Manu need to undergo a test of her own moral purity in the face of the insistent advances of Pyarelal? To make sense of Manu's diary and the celibacy experiment, Suhrud is the ideal guide. Apart from numerous translations and compilations of Gandhiana, he has prepared critical editions of Hind Swaraj and the Autobiography (Faisal Devji called him 'the true successor of Desai and Pyarelal.'). In his introduction he analyses the experiment in terms of Gandhi's lifelong 'striving and pining to achieve . self-realization, to see God face to face, to attain moksha'. Via various traditions and innovations, Gandhi forged a unique path to politically responsible salvation: Ekadash Vrata, the 11 vows or observances that he followed from his mid-thirties. They included truth, non-violence, brahmacharya, non-stealing, non-possession, fearlessness as well as adoption of swadeshi, equal respect for all religions and removal of untouchability. Just as non-violence was not merely absence of violence but, in active form, became love; brahmacharya was not mere celibacy but literally 'dwelling in the brahma'. Further, Gandhi believed the 11 vows had the power to influence the world. Conversely, an orgy of communal violence was a result of the practitioner's failing. Whether this was spiritual arrogance or guilt-prone humility is open to interpretation, but witnessing inhuman violence, Gandhi needed to check within for remnants of lust and remove them. To achieve this, tempting oneself to the very edge would not be the obvious answer for anybody other than Gandhi. But he believed that if he could perfect his brahmacharya, his ahimsa would engulf the mobs, douse the fires and peace would shine out. Tongues started wagging, a volunteer left. Even his longtime sparring partners from the Ashram thought this was adharma and immoral, and came down to Noakhali to talk him out of it. Finally, Thakkar Bapa persuaded Manu to quit, though Gandhi remained convinced of his views (Abhay or fearlessness remains one of his less appreciated virtues.). He wrote to Manu, 'I have successfully practised the 11 vows undertaken by me. This is the culmination of my striving for the last 60 years. .In this yajna, I got a glimpse of the ideal of truth and purity for which I have been striving.' Manu, in all her innocence, was probably the ideal partner and witness in the sacrificial ceremony, as she could see in Gandhi what he aspired for, going beyond not just lust but the very gender binaries. Manu alone saw Gandhi as mother, and exclaimed at the joy of being 'that beloved child of Mother Bapu!' Thus, it was Manu who would bear witness, not just to the culmination of Gandhi's striving, but his final sacrifice. Gandhi wanted her 'to bear witness to his death so that she could bear testimony to his striving'. He told her, 'The success of my attempt depends solely on how I meet death . But if it occurs to me to utter the name Rama with my last breath it should be taken as proof of the success of my attempt.' She was by his side when he breathed his last, but not before calling out, 'He Ram!' 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CFL match date yet to be decided

We are not sure whether we would ask them to stay for a week more. Let us first get the schedule, then we will take a call," Calcutta Customs technical director Biswajit Bhattacharya said. There is no rain forecast for Wednesday and Thursday in Nadia. That means if the IFA gets the permission and both clubs agree to play, the league will be decided before the Durga Puja.Meanwhile, IFA felicitated groundsmen of various clubs on Monday. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://knowledge.thinkingstorm.com/UserProfile/tabid/57/userId/370180/Default.aspx

INX Media case: Court extends Chidambaram's judicial custody till October 17

hidambaram, who was Union home minister and also finance minister during the UPA rule from 2004 to 2014, was arrested by the CBI on August 21 from his Jor Bagh residence.The CBI had registered an FIR on May 15, 2017, alleging irregularities in the Foreign Investment Promotion Board clearance granted to the INX Media group for receiving overseas funds of Rs 305 crore in 2007 during Chidambaram's tenure as the finance minister. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://doodleordie.com/profile/arjunranagans

'What was our fault?': Citizens, arrested for protesting tree felling in Aarey Colony, get bail

Advocate Sonali Samuel, who represented eight of them, said: 'All of them have been granted bail by the holiday sessions court after paying Rs 7,000. But they will have to visit the police station every 15 days and cooperate with the investigating officer.' Family members and friends of the 29 citizens came together on Sunday to express their anguish and emotions against the government's 'illegal' 'undemocratic' and 'unconstitutional' action. The Aarey conservation group held a press conference in the auditorium of a school in Goregaon (East) on Sunday, which was attended by more than 100 people. Tanveer Nizam, an advocate practising in Bombay high court, said, 'We will first get the FIR filed against the protesters quashed. They detained women and young girls inside police station all night which is against the rules.' Prakash Bhoir, 40, an adivasi (tribal) in Aarey Colony, said, 'They arrested my wife. What was her fault? We have planted many trees and treat them like God. We do not even touch leaves after evening and they butchered it in front of our eyes at night. We have been told that they will chop many more trees in future and we will fight against it lawfully.' Manisha Dhinde, 20, a final-year student, who almost missed her examinations, said, 'I live in Aarey Colony. On hearing the news, we rushed to the spot. They dragged us out of the place. My friend Mayuri fainted, but I kept dragging her. I spent the entire night inside Dahisar police station. They left me in the morning only after I told them I had to appear for my college exams. While I was leaving for college, they detained me again, saying I had lied about my exams, despite showing my hall ticket. They left me only after my principal intervened, just an hour before my exams.' Amrita Bhattacharjee, 45, one of the petitioners who was part of the Save Aarey movement for five years, said, 'We will take the battle forward lawfully and through ground movement.' DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttp://krachelart.com/UserProfile/tabid/43/userId/214648/Default.aspx

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Korea to halt N-talks till US hostilities end

But a spokesman at the North's foreign ministry said Washington's claims about another meeting was 'ungrounded'. 'We have no intention to hold such sickening negotiations as what happened this time before the US takes a substantial step to make complete and irreversible withdrawal of the hostile policy toward the DPRK,' he said using the acronyms of the North's official name. In a statement carried by the North's Korean Central News Agency, the spokesman warned that their 'dealings' may immediately end if the US sticks to its old playbook. 'The fate of the future DPRK-US dialogue depen-ds on the US attitude, and the end of this year is its deadline,' he added. In Stockholm, the nuclear-armed North's leading negotiator, Kim Myong Gil, blamed the US for not giving up their 'old attitude' which led to talks ending 'without any outcome'. But Washing-ton called the talks 'good discussions', saying the comments by Korea did not reflect the content or the spirit their eight-and-a-half-hour discussion. The US accepted host Sweden's invitation to resume talks in two weeks, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said. She added in a statement that the US 'previewed a number of new initiatives' that would allow progress on the statement reached in Singapore at the first Trump-Kim summit last year. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttps://www.coalindia.in/ActivityFeed/MyProfile/tabid/64/UserId/528999/language/en-US/Default.aspx

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