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Indian Express August 07, 2018 Myanmar government is all set to provide visa on arrival facility with effect from August 8 by suspending the special land entry permission which was formerly required for visitors entering the country via land routes. The Myanmar government decided to take this step in a bid to promote tourism and improve business ties with other South East Asian countries, according to official sources. To mark the landmark development, Myanmar government is organising an opening ceremony of “International border of Myanmar-India” at Tamu town of Myanmar on August 8, the preparation for which is almost over, sources informed. It is learnt that Myanmar’s Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population Permanent secretary U Aye Lwin and Consul General of India in Myanmar Nandan Singh Bahisora will attend the function. Four officials from Manipur will also take part in the opening ceremony including Laxmi Kumar, transport commissioner, P Vaiphei IAS principal se...

The Hindu August 06, 2018 All that time teens spend glued to their phones may be affecting their brain and leading to symptoms of what is called the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).A recent research published in the  Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) revealed frequent digital media use appeared to increase the risk of having symptoms of ADHD by about 10%. Poor performance The risk was higher among boys than girls, and among teens suffering from depression or have a previous history of getting into trouble. ADHD can have many negative effects on teenagers including poor school performance. It can also increase their likelihood of getting involved in risky activities like substance abuse and legal problems. Speaking about this, K.K. Aggarwal, Indian Medical Association (IMA) former president   said, “With the growing popularity of smartphones, one is addicted to the Internet — Facebook, Twitter and other such application...

The Hindu August 06 2018 By  Leïla Choukroun  &  James J. Nedumpara While Bretton Woods institutions were to embed the new financial trade order, U.S. Treasury department official, Harry Dexter White, and economist John Maynard Keynes had more than just the regulation of the international monetary system in mind at the time. An International Trade Organisation (ITO) was also to be created to establish multilateral rules for the settlement of trade disputes. Adherence to the rules of an international trade organisation was expected to serve as an important domestic incentive (and imperative) for governments by allowing them to resist protectionist demands and provide for greater legal certainty. Successive multilateral conferences were held between 1946 and 1948, and led to the adoption of the Havana Charter, a draft agreement for the creation of the ITO. But the ITO never came into existence as it was eventually rejected by the U.S. when, in 1950, President ...

The Tribune August 06, 2018 By Qadeer Tanoli Indian national Reshma entered Pakistan on-board Thar Express to meet her Pakistani grandchildren but her son returned to their ancestral abode in Rajasthan, India escorting his dead mother on Rangers’ shoulders via Khokhrapar border, where gates were briefly opened after 12 years of closure only to facilitate this rare passage. In a rare episode in the tense Indo-Pak relations, gates of the Khokhrapar-Munabao border were opened to take the body of a Muslim woman to India who had died in Pakistan on July 25. Reshma, a resident of Agasadi village in Barmer district, along with her son Saheb came to Pakistan on June 30 to meet her family in Sanghar. She was scheduled to return to India on July 28 but she fell ill, eventually passing away on July 25. Her family then wanted to bury her in her hometown in Rajasthan, but got entangled in formalities and missed the weekly train, Thar express. However, even after gaining permission to tr...

Hindustan Times August 06, 2018 Imtiaz Ahmad Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Asad Umar has said that the United States should pay heed towards paying off its own loans to China instead of worrying about Pakistan. Umar, set to be Pakistan’s next finance minister under Imran Khan’s premiership, told the media on Saturday that he categorically rejected US secretary of state Mike Pompeo’s statement pertaining to capital from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) being used to pay off Pakistan’s debt to China. He said the PTI government will bring all China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) agreements to the fore to show no such issue will take place. “One friendly advice to the Americans, we’ll worry about our Chinese debt, but I think they better handle their own Chinese debt first,” Dawn quoted him as saying. “We have a serious external debt problem, I’m not saying we don’t, (though) we don’t have a Chinese debt problem.” Umar said Pakistan is facing a c...

Business standard August 06, 2018 By Abhishek Goenka Though the  RBI  maintained its  growth  projection for FY19 at 7.4%, it has alluded to risks on account of protectionist measures and further escalation in  trade tensions  in its policy statement. There are two dimensions to the risks to  macroeconomic stability  from  trade tensions.  One dimension, of course, is that if the global economy slows down, it could result in contraction in global trade and hit our export volumes. The second dimension is that of the policy response of central banks globally to counter the effect of  trade war  i.e. the risk of  trade war  eventually turning into a currency war. For example, the PBoC has allowed the  Yuan  to depreciate to mitigate the effect of tariffs imposed by the  US.  This has resulted in the Rupee strengthening by almost 6% on a relative basis against the  Yuan  since May. ...

Financial Express August 06, 2018 So, now it is almost official that there is a thriving business in new cotton technology, the Bollgard-II with Herbicide Tolerant (HT) traits, a technology that is not yet officially approved by the government! The Field Inspection and Scientific Evaluation Committee (FISEC), set up at the instance of the prime minister’s office (PMO), has submitted its report saying that the planting of unauthorised Herbicide Tolerant (HT) Bt cotton has soared to 15% of the total cotton area in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Telangana and 5% in Punjab during the 2017 kharif season. Also, that farmers have been paying Rs 1000 to Rs 1500 per packet of 450 grams of seeds, despite an official cap on Bollgard-II seeds pricing at Rs 800/packet. Further, the FISEC findings also reveal that it has not been smuggled from outside the country, but has been manipulated with original varieties of Mahyco Monsanto Biotech Limited (MMBL), that were under trial through ...

Indian Express August 03, 2018 Commonly found in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North America and West Asia, the West Nile Virus (WNV) is a viral infection which is typically spread by mosquitoes and can cause neurological disease as well as death in people. First detected in a woman in West Nile district of Uganda in 1937, the virus was later identified in birds (crows and columbiformes) in Nile delta region in 1953. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the virus is a member of the flavivirus genus and belongs to the Japanese encephalitis antigenic complex of the family Flaviviridae. The largest outbreaks of the virus were recorded in Greece, Israel, Romania, Russia and USA. How does the virus spread or get transmitted? The disease is transmitted to humans through mosquito bites. Mosquitoes become infected when they feed on infected birds, which circulate the virus in their blood for a few days. The virus gets transmitted into the mosquito’s salivary ...

August 02, 2018 The Indian Express By Rahul Bajaj The issue of citizenship has been dominating the public discourse since Monday, when Assam released the draft of an updated  National Register of Citizens  ( NRC ) leaving out 40 lakh of 3.29 crore applicants for inclusion. What determines who is or is not a citizen of India? And what are the special circumstances in Assam, the only state with an NRC? How is citizenship determined in India? Indian citizenship can be acquired by birth, descent, registration and naturalisation. A person domiciled in India as on November 26, 1949 — the date when the Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution — automatically became a citizen if he or either of his parents was born in India, or if he had been in India for at least five years until that date. For those born in India after the Constitution came into effect, the Citizenship Act, 1955, grants citizenship by birth based on birth dates. Anyone born between January 26,...

August 01, 2018 Rediff. com Twelve religious parties, including Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-backed Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek, which contested the general elections in Pakistan saw a decline in their vote share when compared with the 2013 polls, securing just over 9 per cent of the total votes polled across the country. According to the Election Commission of Pakistan, the highest number of votes for religious parties was cast in Punjab (2,704,856 votes) but that contributed to only 7.98 per cent of the province's overall vote bank -- the lowest among all other provinces in Pakistan, the  Dawn  reported. The far-right groups managed to secure only 5,203,285 (9.58 per cent) of the total 54,319,922 votes polled across the country as most of them saw a decline in their vote bank when compared to the 2013 general election, the preliminary results showed. As compared with Punjab, their performance was better in Sindh where the religious parties received 1,116,644 vo...