Will Kerala BJP pay political price for Modi’s refusal to meet people’s representatives?

The political storm over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to deny audience with an all-party delegation from Kerala refuses to subside, even a week after the incident.

The delegation, comprising the chief minister, finance minister and MLAs, had planned to submit a resolution that requested the Centre to allow co-operative banks to exchange demonitised Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes and accept deposits like other commercial banks.

The resolution was passed by the state legislative assembly during its special sitting, convened in the wake of crisis in the co-operative sector, on 23 November.

Leaders of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) have successfully kept the ‘Modi snub’ in the limelight for a long time to corner the BJP.

Chief Minister, Pinarayi Vijayan, had launched a scathing attack on Modi for not showing democratic values. “One cannot expect democratic values from a government led by an organisation that consider Hitler and Mussolini as their models.”

sOURCE:-Firstpost

Nagrota attack: Strike near 16 Corps HQ shows proxy war is only just starting

The proxy war attack close to the Indian Army’s 16 Corps headquarters in the Jammu region has several lessons for us. The most obvious of these is that a lot more violence lies ahead.

Just the other day, a top officer rued the fact that the Centre still does not seem to realise the seriousness of the challenge in Jammu and Kashmir. We are already in the middle of another proxy war. The 'surgical strikes' did absolutely nothing to halt Pakistan’s unfolding war plans. There have been major attacks in Baramulla, Srinagar and now at Samba (again) and Nagrota (where the Corps is headquartered). Like those other attacks, this one has gone on far longer than it would have in the very worst phase (1999 to 2001) of the earlier proxy war. Three army men had been killed at Nagrota in the first five hours of the attack on Tuesday.

uch attacks will not only continue, they will get much worse — probably next summer, when we can depend on one trigger or another to cause public demonstrations in tandem with the attacks. It is a multi-pronged war, with fronts at the Line of Control and at any point where militants decide to strike.

And these attackers typically have far more sophisticated military training than most of the militants who operated in Kashmir in the early and mid-1990s.

Another thing that has become clear over the past couple of years is that this proxy war is being engaged across the Kashmir and the Jammu regions, and neighbouring districts of Punjab such as Gurdaspur and Pathankot too.

sOURCE:-Firstpost

Why Hillary Clinton lost the white women's vote

WASHINGTON — Something enrapturing, it shows up, happened while in go to Hillary Clinton's failed push to contort up the fundamental woman president of the United States: She lost the white women's vote.

"Shows up" is the star word here. Mrs. Clinton won the general women's vote, 54 percent to 42 percent, reflecting the longstanding sexual presentation opening that gives Democratic contenders an edge with female voters. In any case, among voters most like Clinton – white women – she lost, 53 percent to 43 percent.

Why this happened, and what it prompts us concerning the state of "character administrative issues," is enlightening.

Like all voters, women vote the way they finish for a liberal get-together of reasons, including the issue positions, character properties, and experience of the hopefuls. For a couple, the likelihood of picking the fundamental woman president was basically essential; for others, not by any stretch out of the inventive capacity. To a few women supporters, Clinton's sex was even a negative: What if she failed? That could set women back, said female voters in a focus stockpile the past summer.

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Demonetisation: PM Modi has created a new normal, will clean and expand economy, says Arun Jaitley

Official Narendra Modi has made "another typical" of white trades with crackdown on reduce money, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday, giving declaration in regards to that demonetisation will incite to a jump in private speculation and more open spending on welfare measures. Tending to BJP parliamentary storing up over the outcome o the decision, he struck Rahul Gandhi saying from one viewpoint the Congress pioneer says the demonetisation decision was particularly spilled to BJP overwhelming hitters and on the other he ensures "that even Finance Minister, that translates I, was similarly not careful".

Talking at last, Jaitley cleared up all parts of the move and said, "Demonetisation has compose association with poor with desperation and with tenseness empowering" and said once the substitution of cash satisfies a sensible level, th confinements will be bolstered.

Delineating the possible positive consequences of this move, Jaitley said the country dependably grabs Rs 4-5 lakh crore and after this move and these great conditions can be used for open spending for development of commonplace regions and blend of poor About Rs 8 lakh crore will be amassed from wage charge this year and Rs 8.5 lakh crore from circumlocutory responsibility however despit that another Rs 4-5 lakh crore is required to hold up under expenses for running the country, he said.

"..so if the true blue drive paying system makes in the country… then do we need to get money… and in the cas these borrowings of about Rs 4-5 lakh crore dependably can be utilized as a bit of nation spaces for misery empowering and othe equal measures," Jaitley included.

Source:- Indianexpress

US General says South Korea Databases Hacked

SEOUL:  The top U.S. military official in South Korea says a hacking incident might have compromised the personal information of thousands of South Koreans employed by the American command.

Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti, commander of U.S. Forces in South Korea, apologized Thursday for the "possible theft" from two databases of private details of South Koreans such as names, contact information and work history.

The U.S. military said no classified military data was compromised.

South Korea has been a frequent target of cyberattacks. Some have been blamed on North Korea, which denies any involvement.

U.S. Forces spokesman Christopher Bush said an investigation was underway to determine who was responsible.

The U.S. has around 28,500 soldiers in South Korea as a deterrent against the North.

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