Ex Nissan boss Ghosn gets $4.5m bail, may soon walk out of detention centre

The former Nissan boss could soon walk out of his Tokyo detention centre to prepare his defence against multiple charges of financial misconduct.

Companies News: A Japanese court granted Carlos Ghosn bail Thursday, meaning the former Nissan boss could soon walk out of his Tokyo detention centre to prepare his defence against multiple charges of financial misconduct.

The Tokyo District Court set bail at 500 million yen ($4.5 million) as the 65-year-old auto sector legend faces four charges ranging from concealing part of his salary from shareholders to syphoning off Nissan funds for his personal use. Prosecutors are likely to appeal the court’s decision, delaying his immediate release but public broadcaster NHK said he could walk out of his detention centre “as early as Thursday”.

Ghosn denies all the charges, with a spokesperson for the executive saying on Monday he would “vigorously defend himself against these baseless accusations and fully expects to be vindicated”. The spokesperson said carlos Ghosn was being detained “under cruel and unjust conditions, in violation of his human rights, in an effort by prosecutors to coerce a confession from him”.

On Monday, he was hit with what experts have described as the most serious charges yet as prosecutors accused him of syphoning off $5 million of Nissan cash transferred from the company to a dealership in Oman. He also faces two charges of deferring some $80 million of his salary and hiding this in official documents to shareholders and seeking to shift personal investment losses to the firm during the 2008 financial crisis.

Ghosn has already been granted bail once, posting $9 million and vowing not to leave Japan and to live in a small court-appointed apartment in central Tokyo — a far cry from his former luxury suite…

WHO says maximum one-hour screen time per day for kids under 5: Key points

Infants under 1 year old should not be exposed to electronic screens and that children between the ages of 2 and 4 should not have more than one hour of “sedentary screen time’.

Current Affairs: Young children should not spend more than an hour a day watching television and videos or playing computer games and infants less than one year old should not be exposed to electronic screens at all, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

Limiting, and in some cases eliminating, screen time for children under the age of 5 will result in healthier adults, said WHO, adding that quality sedentary time spent in interactive non-screen-based activities with a caregiver, such as reading, storytelling, singing and puzzles, is very important for child development..

Physically active and good sleep key for kids under 5

The United Nations agency, issuing its first such guidelines, said under-fives should also be physically active and get adequate sleep to help develop good lifelong habits and prevent obesity and other diseases in later life.

Kids between the age of 1 and 3 should spend 3 hours a day doing physical activity

In its guidelines to member states, the WHO said children between one and four years old should spend at least three hours in a variety of physical activities spread throughout the day.

No screen time for children below the age of 1

Infants under one should interact in floor-based play and avoid all screens, it said. Being inactive is fueling a rise in the numbers of obese or overweight people worldwide, the WHO said. Excessive weight can lead to premature death from heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and some forms of cancer…

File your I-T return on time or you may end up in jail like this jeweller

It is mandatory for all registered taxpayers to file income tax returns every year, except for those who are over 80 years of age and do not have any source of income from a business or profession

Current Affairs: If you have received a notice for not filing income tax returns within due date, you might want to pay heed to it. In what could probably be the first such instance, a director of Mumbai-based firm Ms Shah Time and Jewels was sentenced to jail for three months on Wednesday for not filing income tax returns within the due date for the assessment year 2014-15, according to The Times of India.

When repeated notices sent to the firm and its director Paresh C Shah did not elicit any response, the deputy commissioner of Income Tax on November 22, 2017, filed a show cause notice seeking an explanation as to why sanction for their provision should not be given under the Income Tax Act. After that also went unanswered, a complaint was filed against Shah and the firm.

The Ballard Pier magistrate court rejected Shah’s defence of ‘lack of knowledge’ and held him and the firm guilty of deliberate non-compliance. The court observed that imprisonment under the Income Tax Act was an exceptional and extreme move and was given only when it established deliberate failure to file returns…

Filing Income Tax returns

It is mandatory for all registered taxpayers to file income tax returns every year, except for those who are over 80 years of age and do not have any source of income from a business or profession. For the year assessment year 2019-20, the last date of filing returns is July 31. You can pay it online as well uploading your Form 16.

India TikTok ban causing $500,000 daily loss, risks jobs: China’s Bytedance

The ban has also worried the social media industry in India as it sees legal worries mounting if courts increasingly regulate content on their platforms.

India’s ban on popular Chinese video app TikTok is resulting in “financial losses” of up to $500,000 a day for its developer, Beijing Bytedance Technology Co, and has put more than 250 jobs at risk, the company said in a court filing seen by Reuters.

TikTok allows users to create and share short videos with special effects and is one of the world’s most popular apps. It has been downloaded by nearly 300 million users so far in India, out of more than 1 billion downloads globally, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower. Earlier this month, an Indian state court ordered the federal government to prohibit its downloads, saying the app was encouraging pornography. Acting upon instructions from the federal IT ministry, Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google last week removed TikTok from their India app stores.

The developments have dealt a blow to the India growth plans of Bytedance, which is backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp and by private equity. Bytedance, one of the world’s most valuable startups potentially worth around $75 billion, was considering a public listing in Hong Kong this year, sources told Reuters in August.

The ban has also worried the social media industry in India as it sees legal worries mounting if courts increasingly regulate content on their platforms. In the filing made to India’s Supreme Court on Saturday, Bytedance urged the court to quash the ban and direct the federal IT ministry to tell companies such as Google and Apple to make the app available again on their platforms. The court filing is not publicly available and its contents have not been previously reported…

Madras HC lifts ban on TikTok, imposes limit on content of videos

Chinese company which owns the app says the ban resulted in a financial loss of around $500,000 daily.

The Madras HC has lifted the ban on Chinese short video sharing app TikTok, subject to the company fulfilling some conditions. After hearing the matter for about five hours on Wednesday, the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, consisting of Justice N Kirubakaran and Justice S S Sundar vacated its interim order banning the app, subject to the condition that pornographic videos, and those on child abuse and women abuse will not be uploaded on it, failing which contempt of court proceedings would be initiated.

The same bench had, on April 3, issued an order directing the Centre to prohibit downloading of the TikTok Mobile App, as it observed that there was the risk inappropriate content such as abusive language and pornography would posted on the app.

ByteDance, backed by investor SoftBank Corp, which owns the app, moved the Apex Court against the Order. On Monday, a Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi asked the High Court to decide on the petition against the app on April 24, failing which the ban on the app would be automatically vacated. The matter was again heard by the Madurai bench for nearly five hours on Wednesday, after which the order was passed.

While the Order copy was not available immediately, Advocate K Neelamegam, who is representing the petitioner and was present in Court, confirmed that the Court has “modified” the previous Order, subject to meeting the conditions. TikTok has said that the app will shut automatically if the user upload any objectionable videos. The company said it has created a three-layer system, including an AI-based one, and manual deletion in to take care of such cases. It also informed the Court that nearly six million controversial videos had been deleted. The firm also said it would appoint a nodal officer to address any complaints between 13 and 36 hours from their being filed.

WhatsApp’s new fingerprint feature may stop users from taking screenshots

The new feature will also roll out animated stickers and doodles that will be included in WhatsApp sticker packs

Companies News: Do you often take screenshots of your private chats on WhatsApp? As part of the company’s security changes, a new authentication feature, if enabled, will prevent users from taking screenshots, according to WabetaInfo.

The Facebook-owned messaging app is reportedly testing a new fingerprint feature that would require users to scan their fingerprints to access chats. As a result, people who get a hold of your phone will not be able to send or read your private messages on WhatsApp. However, once enabled, users will no longer be able to capture screenshots. The Android beta version 2.19.106, tested by WabetaInfo, said, “We do not know why WhatsApp decided to prevent screenshots when fingerprint is enabled.”

It also provided a screenshot of an alert that read: “Fingerprint security – When enabled, fingerprint is required to open WhatsApp and conversation screenshots are blocked. You can still reply to messages from notifications and answer calls if WhatsApp is locked. WhatsApp This screenshot shows the fingerprint update by WhatsApp WhatsApp won’t be the only one to act on this. Streaming service Netflix also prevents its users from taking screengrabs of its videos. On the other hand, Snapchat notifies people that their stories have been grabbed.

Doodle away

The new feature will also roll out animated stickers and doodles that will be included in WhatsApp sticker packs. Doodle UI will also users to edit photos by drawing on them or adding stickers. These stickers can also be grouped as categories such as “Favourite” so you can easily find the sticker you want to use. The UI feature, as shown below, looks similar to Instagram’s doodle drawer.

WhatsApp Screenshot of the new Doodle UI feature by WhatsApp

Earlier this month, the company released a statement that they would be releasing a new feature that would stop people from adding users automatically to group chats. Currently, being added to a group chat exposes your numbers to several others who you might not know. In addition, to minimise the spread of fake news on its platform, WhatsApp is testing the “Forwarding Info” and “Frequently Forwarded Message” feature that would let its over 1.5 billion users know how many times a message has been forwarded.

15-year-old Indian-origin boy opens accountancy firm while in school

Is lauded as Britain’s youngest accountant

Current Affairs: A 15-year-old Indian-origin boy has been lauded as Britain’s youngest accountant after setting up a successful accountancy firm while still at school. Ranveer Singh Sandhu, based in south London, has set himself a goal of becoming a millionaire by the time he turns 25 after he set up his first business when he was aged just 12 years.

“Young Entrepreneur aged 15 living my best life and trying to make money,” he proclaims on social media. The schoolboy says he knew from a very early age that he wanted to become an accountant and financial adviser to help fellow young entrepreneurs set up their dream businesses. He charges between 12 pounds to 15 pounds per hour for his services and boasts of 10 paying clients.

“It isn’t that hard juggling school and my business, I haven’t had that much stress,” he told the Daily Mirror. “My plan for the future is to become a millionaire and expand my business,” he said. The teenager completed an online accounting course to achieve a requisite Level 3 CPD Basic Accounting certificate when he was 12 and went on to set up his business Digital Accounts in June 2016. Two years later, he launched a second company — Ranveer Singh Sandhu — which is still under development.

He works mainly from home but also has the use of an office in his family’s property business nearby. His father, Aman Singh Sandhu, 50, is a builder, and mother Dalwinder Kaur Sandhu, 45, works as an estate agent….

Lok Sabha polls: Over 65% vote in Phase III; 1 killed outside Bengal booth

AAP, Congress, BJP file nominations as Delhi prepares for a three-way fight

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Barring a last-minute miracle, any hope of a Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seat adjustment for the seven seats in Delhi was all but over on Tuesday with AAP and Congress candidates filing their respective nominations.

If suspense ended on the Congress-AAP tie up in Delhi, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra kept alive the suspense on whether she might contest from Varanasi against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Campaigning in Bareli, Priyanka said she would abide by her party’s decision on contesting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi. “I have said this repeatedly that I will do what the party asks me to do,” the 47-year-old said, adding that people were feeling harassed and wanted a change.

In the rest of the country, polling took place on 116-seats across 13 states and 2 Union Territories. These included all of Kerala’s 20, Gujarat’s 26 and Goa’s 2 seats. The Election Commission (EC) said, subject to revision, estimated voter turnout nationally was 65.61 per cent. It was also the largest phase of the elections, and its completion marked polling ending on 301 of 543 seats.

Key candidates in the fray were Bharatiya Janata Party Chief Amit Shah from Gandhinagar, Congress President Rahul Gandhi from Wayanad, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram, Congress’s Mallikarjun Kharge in Gulbarga, Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Sharad Yadav in Madhepura and BJP’s Sambit Patra versus Biju Janata Dal’s Pinaki Mishra in Puri.

Several incidents of violence were reported in West Bengal. A 52-year-old man, who the Congress claimed to be its worker, was hacked to death outside a booth during polling in the Murshidabad Lok Sabha constituency, a senior state police officer said. In another incident, two women voters were injured in an alleged bombing in Murshidabad’s Domkal area..

Village in Bihar calls for poll boycott after giving chance to every party

Begusarai goes to polls on April 29 with three main candidates in fray: CPI’s Kanhaiya Kumar, BJP’s Giriraj Singh and RJD’s Tanveer Hasan

Lok Sabha elections 2019: As one passes through the Barauni region in Bihar’s Begusarai, a crowd of 50-odd people can be seen standing by the side of an unpaved road. But they are not standing in the soaring heat to witness the election spectacle or catch a glimpse of a star campaigner. Shoulder-to-shoulder, each one has just one strong message to deliver to all the politicians and their cavalcade passing by: Boycott polls. Begusarai goes to poll on April 29, in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha election, with three main candidates in fray: CPI’s Kanhaiya Kumar, BJP’s Giriraj Singh and RJD’s Tanveer Hasan.

“Can you hear us for a moment?” a group of young boys and women, belonging to Rajwara village, ask as they watch the campaign vehicles of Kanhaiya Kumar pass by. The villagers claim they haven’t seen a concrete road since the time of independence and they have to collect donations to maintain the unimproved roads. The voters of Rajwara have given a chance to all the parties in the Assembly elections since India’s independence in 1947.

Rajwara falls under the Teghra assembly constituency. First, there was an elected MLA from the Congress in 1951, followed by an independent candidate in 1957, Communist Party of India in 1962, BJP in 2010 and RJD in the latest state elections held in 2015. “I have never seen a road in this village since independence. We have given an opportunity to all parties. They come here to ask for votes and forget about us every time,” Arun Kumar, an unskilled worker in the region, says.

The problems compounded in 2016 when villagers realised Rajwara had been moved out of the Bihat nagar parishad (city council). It wasn’t a part of a gram panchayat either. “As a result, we haven’t been able to get benefits of any government schemes to build toilets, get cylinders or be a part of any housing scheme,” 27-year-old student Sanjeet Kumar said. The villagers have not been able to reap the benefits of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, PM Awaz Yojana, among other central government schemes...

Jet example shows that Indian capitalism needs to be saved from capitalists

It’s lamentable that after 14 years as a publicly traded firm, operating in a capital-intensive, competitive, regulated industry, Jet was still allowed to carry on basically as Goyal’s fief

The grounding of Jet Airways India Ltd., the country’s oldest private-sector carrier, isn’t just bad news for customers and its 23,000 employees. It raises yet again a question that’s puzzled two successive governments and will continue to bedevil whichever party takes power after elections conclude next month: What’s killing capitalism in India?

Jet was born in the early 1990s, when India’s closed Soviet-style planned economy had just started embracing globalization and private enterprise. Back then, few Indians could afford to fly; now the country has the world’s fastest-growing aviation market. An airline that was at one point the industry’s dominant player should theoretically have been able to thrive.

While Jet’s costs were too high compared with those of its no-frills rivals, that issue could have been fixed. The real problem is that Jet founder Naresh Goyal gambled away a perfectly fine — albeit, unprofitable — airline by not injecting equity himself into the cash-strapped business, or stepping aside in time and allowing someone else to do so.

It’s only natural for entrepreneurs to be possessive and irrational, especially when — like Goyal — they’ve been so wildly successful for so long. The bigger conundrum is why providers of outside capital (banks and capital markets) didn’t act as a disciplining force on Goyal and save the business.

Despite Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways PJSC taking a 24 percent stake in the airline in 2013, Jet has been slipping deeper into negative equity for seven years. Had India’s state-run banks insisted on a timely and substantial capital infusion, and had they credibly threatened to dilute Goyal’s 51 percent controlling stake by issuing themselves new shares when the inevitable debt default occurred, Jet would now be flying under a new owner…Read More

Inhuman treatment given to Pragya Thakur over suspicion not fair: Ramdev

Describing himself as someone who doesn’t belong to any particular political party, the yoga guru Monday said the country was facing all sorts of challenges at present

Politics News: Yoga guru Ramdev has come out in support of the BJP’s Bhopal candidate and Malegaon blast case accused Pragya Singh Thakur, saying it was unfair to subject her to cruelty in jail for nine years on the basis of a suspicion.

“Sadhvi Pragya was made to suffer rigorous imprisonment for nine years. There is nothing wrong in restraining her if she makes an inappropriate statement but the inhuman treatment given to her in the jail purely on the basis of suspicion was not fair,” Ramdev told reporters in Haridwar on Monday.

He was replying to a question about Sadhvi Pragya Thakur‘s remarks against the then Mumbai Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) Chief Hemant Karkare, who died fighting terrorists during the 26/11 Mumbai attack. Karkare was investigating the 2008 Malegaon blast case.

Addressing BJP workers in Bhopal, Thakur had claimed that Karkare died during the attacks as she “cursed” him for torturing her Describing himself as someone who doesn’t belong to any particular political party, the yoga guru Monday said the country was facing all sorts of political, economic and religious challenges at present.

“After overcoming these challenges, the country will become a world leader by 2040,” he claimed. Ramdev further said it was wrong to assume that poverty and unemployment were the only issues. “Ram and nationalism are equally important,” he added.

Philippines quake kills at least 11, rescuers race to find survivors

Heavy lifting equipment and search dogs were used as dozens of firefighters, military and civilian rescue teams raced to shift piles of concrete in the town of Porac

International News: Rescue teams in the Philippines searched for signs of life beneath the rubble of a collapsed four-storey commercial building on Tuesday after a strong earthquake shook the country’s biggest island, killing at least 11 people.

Heavy lifting equipment and search dogs were used as dozens of firefighters, military and civilian rescue teams raced to shift piles of concrete in the town of Porac, about 108 km (67.1 miles) northeast of Manila, where a 6.1 magnitude earthquake destroyed several buildings on Monday. During the night, seven people were rescued and four dead bodies were pulled out of the rubble of the commercial building, which had caved in on a ground floor supermarket, officials said.

“The rescue is ongoing, they are still hearing a sound, no one can say how many were still trapped,” Pampanga provincial governor Lilia Pineda said in a radio interview. The quake, which struck at 5 p.m. local time on Monday, was initially reported as being of 6.3 magnitude and later revised down to 6.1 magnitude, the US Geological Survey and Philippines seismology authorities said.

The Philippines is prone to natural disasters, located on the seismically active Pacific “Ring of Fire”, a horse-shoe shaped band of volcanoes and fault lines that arcs round the edge of the Pacific Ocean. The earthquake was felt strongly in key business areas of Manila, with residential and office buildings evacuated after being shaken for several minutes. Train services were halted and roads and sidewalks were clogged by the sudden exodus of workers…

Millions of youngsters stepping out to vote want ‘Nyay’: Rahul Gandhi

His appeal came aspolling began for the third phase in which 116 Lok Sabha seats, including all constituencies in Gujarat and Kerala, are going to polls.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday expressed confidence that millions of youngsters stepping out to vote want ‘Nyay’ (justice) for every Indian and will cast their ballot wisely. His appeal came aspolling began for the third phase in which 116 Lok Sabha seats, including all constituencies in Gujarat and Kerala, are going to polls. “Across India, millions of youngsters are stepping out to vote, many of them for the first time. In their hands lies the future of India,” Gandhi said. “I’m confident that they want NYAY for every Indian and will vote wisely,” he tweeted and tagged a short video of the Congress’ ‘Ab hoga Nyay’ theme focusing on youngsters.

The Congress on April 8 announced ‘Ab Hoga Nyay’ as its battle cry for the Lok Sabha polls and launched a campaign centred around the theme of ‘justice’, while alluding to the party’s proposed minimum income scheme and the ‘anyay’ (injustice) “prevailing under the BJP rule”. Earlier, Congresschief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala tweeted: “Today the third step of removing the problems of the people has to be taken,” Congress’ “Your one vote will take the country towards progress and equality,” he said.

“For the bright future of the youth, for the progress of the farmers, for profit of small businesses, for rights of the deprived, do cast your vote because ‘ab hoga nyay’ (justice will be done),” Surjewala said.

Samsung is retrieving all Galaxy Fold samples distributed to reviewers

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is retrieving all Galaxy Fold samples distributed to reviewers to investigate reports of broken screens, a day after it postponed the phone’s launch

Technology News: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is retrieving all Galaxy Fold samples distributed to reviewers to investigate reports of broken screens, a day after it postponed the phone’s launch, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. The retrieval comes as the world’s biggest smartphone maker met with embarrassment ahead of the foldable device’s U.S. release on April 26, with a handful of technology journalists reporting breaks, bulges and blinking screens after a day’s use.

The South Korean tech giant postponed the handset’s launch for an unspecified period of time while it investigated the matter. It said initial findings showed the issues could be associated with impact on exposed areas of the hinges A representative declined to comment further on Tuesday.

Samsung’s share price was 0.4 percent lower as of 0425 GMT, in a flat Seoul market. However, parts suppliers fell, with hinge maker KH Vatec Co Ltd shedding 3.1 percent. A person with direct knowledge of the supply chain said KH Vatec conducted an internal review of hinges used in the Samsung Galaxy Fold and found no defects. The supplier declined to comment. In March, Samsung released a video showing robots folding Galaxy Fold handsets 200,000 times for its durability test.

Samsung’s head of IT and mobile communications, DJ Koh, has repeatedly said foldables are the future of smartphones. Though the issue does not hurt Samsung’s balance sheet, the postponement damages the firm’s effort to showcase itself as an innovative first mover, not a fast follower, analysts said. In some cases, reviewers had peeled off a layer of film which they mistook for a disposable screen protector.

“It’s disastrous that Samsung sent samples to reviewers without clear instructions on how to handle the device, and that the firm needs to fix screen flickering,” said analyst Kim Young-woo at SK Securities. One Samsung employee, speaking on condition of anonymity, said, “On the bright side, we have an opportunity to nail down this issue and fix it before selling the phones to a massive audience, so they won’t have same complaints.”

Sri Lanka pays homage to over 310 people killed in Easter Sunday bombings

Seven suicide bombers believed to be members of an Islamist extremist group carried out a series blasts that ripped through three churches and luxury hotels on Sunday

International News: Sri Lanka observed a nationwide three-minute silence Tuesday to pay homage to more than 300 people killed in the gruesome Easter Sunday bombings, the country’s worst terror attack blamed on a local previously little-known Islamist outfit. National flags were lowered and people bowed their heads as the silence began at 8:30 am local time, the time the first of the attacks occurred on Sunday.

“We have declared today a day of national mourning, we urge people to raise a white flag in honour of the victims,” said Kamal Padmasiri, Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs. He said a 3-minute silence was observed nationwide and the national flag will be flown at half-mast. Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said the death toll in a series of devastating blasts that tore through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka had risen to 310.

“The death toll has now gone up to 310”, Gunasekera said. Seven suicide bombers believed to be members of an Islamist extremist group – the National Tawheed Jamath (NTJ) – carried out a series blasts that ripped through three churches and luxury hotels on Sunday, killing over 300 people and wounding more than 500 others, including 8 Indians, in the country’s worst terror attack.

A string of eight blasts were reported on Sunday, including at three churches in Negombo, Batticaloa and Colombo’s Kochchikade district during Easter services. The Shangri-La, Kingsbury and Cinnamon Grand luxury hotels, all in the capital, were also targeted.. 

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How US ending Iran sanctions waiver could affect oil markets and more

The move threatens to squeeze supplies further in a market that’s already facing supply disruptions from Venezuela to Libya and Nigeria

International News: Six months after the U.S. rocked oil markets by letting Iranian exports continue, its decision to end sanctions waivers that allowed shipments is also set to reverberate across the globe. The U.S. is said to announce Monday morning in Washington that it won’t renew exemptions from its sanctions to buyers of Iranian crude after they expire on May 2. It marks a change in direction from November last year, when the Donald Trump administration granted waivers to eight importers as it sought to temper fuel prices ahead of American mid-term elections.

The move threatens to squeeze supplies further in a market that’s already facing supply disruptions from Venezuela to Libya and Nigeria, and extend this year’s rally in global benchmark Brent crude above $70 a barrel. Prices are still below the four-year highs of over $86 they hit in October before the U.S. issued its waivers. Here are some of the potential implications of the Trump administration’s latest decision, which is aimed at piling economic pressure on Iran over the Persian Gulf state’s nuclear program by cutting off a key source of the OPEC member’s revenue.

Fate of OPEC+ Deal

The U.S. government will also announce that it got commitments from suppliers such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to offset the loss of Iranian crude, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

That could jeopardize the output deal between the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, which have been curbing supplies since the start of the year to avert a glut. Russia, one of the partners in the pact, has already signaled that the cuts may not need to be extended. A decision is expected when the producer group known as OPEC+ meets in June.

Game of Thrones latest episode leaks; aired early on Germany’s Amazon Prime

The show, whose first episode of the eighth season premiered last week, airs on HBO at 9 pm Eastern Time

The second episode of the eighth and final season of “Game of Thrones” leaked on the Internet ahead of its scheduled broadcast time on HBO Sunday.

According to The Wrap, fans of the epic fantasy series alerted on social media about the leak, claiming that the to-be-aired episode was released early via Amazon Prime Video in Germany. The show, whose first episode of the eighth season premiered last week, airs on HBO at 9 pm Eastern Time.

Some social media users responded to the leak. “You can legally watch leaked episode on Amazon in Germany Game of Thrones,” a user wrote on Twitter. A German Reddit user posted, “Why can I see the second Episode yet (sic)?!” The post also featured a screenshot from Amazon Prime in Germany that showed the opening titles of the show, captioned: “Game of Thrones, Staffel 8 [dt./OV] Folge 2” or season eight, episode two.

The publication also confirmed that the second episode was in fact released early, adding that it could be viewed after clicking on an attached link. Representatives for HBO and Amazon Prime Video did not immediately respond to the request for comment. This is a second leak of the show after the highly-anticipated opening episode of the final season landed on DirecTV Now, four hours ahead of its premiere time last week.

Four crucial messages emerging from the Mayawati-Mulayam kiss-and-make-up

If the intended missives are able to percolate the grassroots, the gathbandhan may evolve stronger and create a triangular tussle for power between the SP-BSP combine, the BJP and the Congress

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Whenever Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav as of late held a joint rally in Mainpuri in which the Bahujan Samaj Party boss spoke to general society to vote in favor of Mulayam Singh Yadav, it made another political edge that sigh to cover the long-standing enmity between the BSP and the Samajwadi Party. It might be reviewed that the two gatherings dropped out in light of the ‘guesthouse outrage’ in Lucknow 24 years back, when the Mayawati outfit’s withdrawal of help to the alliance prompted the breakdown of Mulayam Singh government in 1995.

In any case, in this rally, Mayawati, situated between Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav, agreed full regard to the SP patriarch when he went ahead the dais. The non-verbal communication of the three heads reflected great science between these once political adversaries. Mulayam Singh Yadav spoke to his supporters to regard Mayawati, expressing that she constantly expanded help when it was required. Mayawati, on her part, claimed firmly to her supporters to vote in favor of Mulayam Singh and the gathbandhan in this decision, affirming that he was the genuine pioneer of the retrogressive classes, not at all like Narendra Modi, whom she called a phony in reverse. What are the messages that risen up out of this joint rally and what will their effect be in the 2019 decisions long haul legislative issues of Uttar Pradesh?

The first is that Mayawati was making a decent attempt to persuade her devotees to help Mulayam Singh Yadav and different applicants of the gathbandhan, a large portion of whom are Samajwadi pioneers in a locale in which the third period of surveying will occur in UP. This space is normally a Yadav bastion and is broadly called ‘Yadav-Land’, in spite of the fact that it has a sizeable populace of Muslims also. The voting demographics here incorporate Sambhal, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Badaun, Aonla, Bareilly, and Pilibhit. This is a territory where the Yadavs claim arrives on which numerous Dalits fill in as landless workers. It is additionally an area in which a new country and urban Dalit white collar class is loaning voice to its flimsier brethren…

Sri Lanka blasts : 290 killed, over 500 wounded; 24 arrested so far

Three places of worship – St Anthony’s Church in Colombo, St Sebastian’s Church were hit by impacts. Three blasts were accounted for from the five-star inns, the Shangrila, the Cinnamon Grand and the Kingsbury

Intersnational News: Sri Lankan Army warriors secure the zone around St. Anthony’s Shrine after an effect in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, April 21, 2019. A Sri Lanka crisis facility delegate says a couple of effects on Easter Sunday have killed numerous people | Photo: AP/PTI Somewhere around 290 people were killed and more than 500 hurt in bomb impacts that tore through houses of prayer and rich motels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, the primary huge strike on the Indian Ocean island since the completion of a typical war 10 years back.  Something like 24 people have been caught for Sri Lanka impacts, says police. The check in time constrained after a movement of impacts was lifted at 6 am, as booked.

Here are the top reports on the bombings that shook the island nation.

Seven part group of JDS laborers from Karnataka disappeared from Colombo: CM HD Kumaraswamy: I’m stunned to hear that a 7-part group of JDS specialists from Karnataka, who were visiting Colombo, has disappeared after bomb impacts and 2 of them are dreaded slaughtered, says Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy. “I’m in consistent touch with Indian High Commission on reports of those missing,” he included.

No less than six Indians executed in Sri Lanka impacts

No less than six Indians have been killed in a string of eight incredible impacts, including suicide assaults, which struck three chapels and lavish inns frequented by outsiders in Sri Lanka, authorities said on Monday. Around 500 individuals, including Indians, were harmed in the impacts – one of the deadliest assaults in the nation’s history.

24 individuals captured regarding Easter Sunday impacts

Sri Lankan specialists have captured 24 individuals from the minority Muslim people group regarding the different impacts, Police representative Ruwan Gunasekera said. However, the administration said they won’t uncover the subtleties of the presumes associated with the assaults to keep them from getting attention.

Indian lady murdered

An Indian lady has kicked the bucket in the assaults in Colombo, media reports said. The Hindu distinguished her as Razeena, who was from Kerala and was visiting Colombo to meet her relatives. She was slaughtered in a bomb at her inn. Two Turkish residents were among the general population murdered, as indicated by Turkey’s state media Anadolu. The Turks were engineers taking a shot at an undertaking in Sri Lanka, said Anadolu…

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Easter Sunday blasts: Three Indians among 215 killed in Sri Lanka

Three places of worship in different pieces of the nation and four lodgings in Colombo were hit

International News: Three Indians were among no less than 215 individuals killed in bomb impacts that tore through chapels and lavish lodgings in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, the principal real assault on the Indian Ocean island since the finish of a common war 10 years back. The quantity of harmed has been pegged at around 500. Seven individuals were captured and three cops were killed amid a security powers strike on a house in the Sri Lankan capital a few hours after the rash of assaults, some of which authorities said were suicide bombs.

The administration pronounced a check in time in Colombo and blocked access to web-based social networking and informing destinations, including Facebook and WhatsApp. It was hazy when the check in time would be lifted. “Through and through, we have data of 207 dead from all clinics. We have 450 harmed admitted to medical clinics,” police representative Ruwan Gunasekera told columnists.

Also Read: Sri Lanka’s police chief had warned of suicide attack 10 days before blasts

Three places of worship in different pieces of the nation and four lodgings in Colombo were hit. Somewhere around 27 of the dead were outsiders, including individuals from Turkey, China, India, and Holland, authorities and media reports said. There were no quick cases of obligation regarding the assaults in a nation which was at war for quite a long time with Tamil separatists until 2009, when bomb impacts in the capital were normal.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremsinghe recognized the administration had some “earlier data of the assault”, however serves were not told. He said there wasn’t a sufficient reaction and there should have been an investigation into how the data was utilized. Handfuls were executed in one of the impacts at St Sebastian’s Gothic-style Catholic church in Katuwapitiya, north of Colombo. Gunasekera said the police presumed a suicide assault there. Neighborhood media detailed 25 individuals were additionally murdered in an assault on a fervent church in Batticaloa in Eastern Province…Read More

Telangana Intermediate results: When and where you can check your marks

According to bie.telangana.gov.in, the TS Intermediate 1st and 2nd-year results will be available after 5 p.m. today

Candidates who had appeared for the Telangana State Intermediate 1st and 2nd-year examination can check their results today on the official website results.cgg.gov.in and bie.telangana.gov.in. According to bie.telangana.gov.in, the results will be available after 5 p.m. on April 18, 2019. The examination for the academic year 2018-19 held between February 28, 2019 and March 18, 2019.

Here’s how to check your Telangana State Inter 1st and 2nd-year result:

Step 1: Visit the official websites- results.cgg.gov.in or bie.telangana.gov.in

Step 2: Click on the result link and a new page will appear.

Step 3: Fill in your hall ticket number.

Step 4: Your results will appear on the screen.

Step 5: Download your result and print it for future reference.

You can also check your Telangana State Inter results via SMS..

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This 88-seater plane from Japan’s Mitsubishi is taking on Boeing and Airbus

With few seats and littler fuselages, territorial planes are an alternate class of flying machine from bigger restricted body planes, for example, Boeing’s 737 or Airbus’ A320

A new, long-delayed 88-passenger jet from Japan may finally be the right plane at the right time. More cities in Asia and Europe are seeking to link up with each other and the global air travel network.

The Mitsubishi Regional Jet, the first airliner built in Japan since the 1960s, began certification flights last month in Moses Lake, Washington, to satisfy that demand.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s new airliner is testing the skies just as rivals are moving to sell off their manufacturing operations for jets with up to 160 seats. Boeing Co. is set to buy 80 percent of the Embraer SA’s commercial operations in a joint venture, while Bombardier Inc. last year sold control of its C Series airliner project to Airbus SE and is exploring “strategic options” for its regional-jet operations. At stake, particularly in the market for jets with fewer seats, is $135 billion in sales in the two decades through 2037, according to industry group Japan Aircraft Development Corp.|International News

“Bombardier’s moves do indeed create opportunities for the MRJ,’’ said Richard Aboulafia, aerospace analyst at Teal Group. “It’s the biggest single factor in the MRJ’s favor.’’ With few seats and smaller fuselages, regional jets are a different class of aircraft from larger narrow-body planes such as Boeing’s 737 or Airbus’s A320. The MRJ has a range of about 2,000 miles, while a smaller variant can haul up to 76 people for about the same distance..