टोक्यो. 10 नवम्बर (वार्ता) प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी तीन दिवसीय यात्रा पर आज जापान पहुंचे जहां वह वार्षिक सम्मेलन में हिस्सा लेंगे और जापान के प्रधानमंत्री शिंजो आबे से मुलाकात करेंगे।
नयी दिल्ली 10 नवम्बर (वार्ता) केन्द्रीय वित्त मंत्री अरुण जेटली ने आज कहा कि कोई व्यक्ति यदि प्रचलन से बाहर किए गए 500 और 1000 रुपये के नोट बैंकों या डाकघरों में ढ़ाई लाख रुपए की सीमा तक जमा करता है तो उसे किसी भी तरह से तंग नहीं किया जाएगा।
नयी दिल्ली.10 नवम्बर (वार्ता) सरकार ने कहा है कि एक हजार रुपये का भी नया नोट लाया जायेगा, सरकार 1000 रुपए,100 रुपए, 50 रुपए और अन्य नोट नये रुप-रंग और बदली हुई विशेषताओं के साथ फिर लायेगी।
नयी दिल्ली, 10 नवंबर (वार्ता) पांच सौ और एक हजार रुपये के नोटों को अमान्य किये जाने के केन्द्र सरकार के फैसले के खिलाफ दायर याचिका पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट में मंगलवार को सुनवाई होगी।
चंडीगढ़. 10 नवम्बर (वार्ता) पंजाब प्रदेश कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष और अमृतसर से लोकसभा सांसद कैप्टन अमरिंदर सिंह तथा प्रदेश कांग्रेस के सभी विधायकों ने नदी जल बंटवारे को लेकर उच्चतम न्यायालय के फैसले के विरोध में सम्बंधित सदनों की सदस्यता से आज तत्काल प्रभाव से इस्तीफे दे दिये।
राजकोट, 10 नवंबर (वार्ता) जो रूट(124), मोइन अली(117) और बेन स्टोक्स(128) के धमाकेदार शतकों से इंग्लैंड ने भारतीय गेंदबाजी की हवा निकालते हुये पहले क्रिकेट टेस्ट के दूसरे दिन गुरूवार को 537 रन का पहाड़नुमा स्कोर बनाकर मेजबान टीम को भारी दबाव में ला दिया।
शिकागो/न्यूयार्क, 10 नवम्बर (रायटर) अमेरिका के नव निर्वाचित राष्ट्रपति रिपब्लिकन पार्टी के डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प के चुनाव के विरूद्ध कल देश के कई शहरों में प्रदर्शन किये गये और चुनाव प्रचार के दौरान के प्रवासियों मुसलमानों तथा अन्य समूहों के विरूद्ध उनकी टिप्पणियों को लेकर उनकी आलोचना की गयी।
लखनऊ 10 नवम्बर (वार्ता) समाजवादी पार्टी (सपा) अध्यक्ष मुलायम सिंह यादव ने 500 और 1000 रूपये के नोटों की विमुद्रीकरण की प्रक्रिया को एक सप्ताह के लिये टाले जाने की मांग करते हुये आज कहा कि केन्द्र की नरेन्द्र मोदी सरकार आर्थिक अराजकता फैलाकर देश को बंधक बनाने का प्रयास कर रही है।
नयी दिल्ली 10 नवंबर (वार्ता) सरकार द्वारा 500 रुपये तथा एक हजार रुपये के पुराने नोटों पर प्रतिबंध के बाद सर्राफा बाजार में अाज लगातार तीसरे दिन अफरा-तफरी का माहौल रहा ।
नयी दिल्ली, 10 नवम्बर (वार्ता) उच्चतम न्यायालय ने सतलज यमुना सम्पर्क (एसवाईएल) नहर निर्माण मामले में पंजाब सरकार को करारा झटका देते हुए जल बंटवारा समझौते को निरस्त करने संबंधी अधिनियम को अवैध करार दिया
Cambodia is a Priority Country for Czech’s Development Assistance
AKP/ Phnom Penh, November 10, 2016
Government of Czech Republic considers Cambodia as a priority country for development cooperation and appreciates the country’s rapid growth.
Ambassador of the Czech Republic H.E. Vitezslav Grepl shared the information while meeting lately with Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFA-IC) H.E. Prak Sokhon, at the ministry office, H.E. Chum Sontary, Spokesperson for MFA-IC, told reporters after the meeting.
H.E. Vitezslav Grepl underlined that the Government of Czech is considering about expanding the tie of trade and tourism for the benefits of both peoples and countries.
H.E. Prak Sokhon considered the assistance as a contribution to the development of Cambodia and spoke highly of Czech’s contribution to the development of Cambodia.
DIRAZ, Bahrain (AP) — In the small town of Diraz, just a few miles from where Prince Charles met with Bahrain's royals, there is graffiti demanding the death of the Gulf island's monarch, armored vehicles with chicken wire on their windows and a tense calm that could be shattered at any time.
(1 of 2) Britain's Prince Charles reacts to a joke at a Hindu temple in Manama, Bahrain, on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. Prince Charles and his wife Camilla are on a three-nation tour of the Gulf.
The police have laid siege to the town for months, a sign of the lingering standoff between Bahrain's Shiite majority and its Sunni monarchy more than five years after Arab Spring protests were crushed. The ongoing crackdown has seen some activists imprisoned, others exiled, and a major Shiite opposition group dismantled.
But there was no sign of the unrest as Prince Charles and his wife Camilla took in the sights as part of a three-nation tour of the Gulf. The Prince of Wales inaugurated a new naval base on Thursday, the first permanent British military presence since its withdrawal from Bahrain in 1971.
The royal visit and the military base suggest Britain, which has long had influence with Bahrain's own monarchy, may not be pressing it on human rights. Tensions continue to grow amid the crackdown, with some worried a larger crisis could loom in Bahrain, which is home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.
"You will reach the level where people realize they have nothing left to lose," one local activist told The Associated Press. Bahrain, a small island off the coast of the Arabian Peninsula, has long drawn revelers to bars across the causeway from dry Saudi Arabia. Its history as a port town for pearl divers and shippers has drawn an eclectic mix of Sunnis, Shiites, Iraqi Jews, Christian missionaries and Hindus.
The 2011 Arab Spring protests were backed by the Shiite majority and others, and were aimed at demanding more political freedoms from the ruling Al Khalifa family. The government put down the demonstrations with help from Saudi and Emirati troops, and later pledged to reform.
While low-level unrest persisted for years, things remained largely peaceful until April, when Bahrain's military announced it was "ready to deal firmly and with determination with these sedition groups and their heads" after a gasoline bomb killed a police officer.
Since then, authorities suspended the country's largest Shiite opposition group, Al-Wefaq, and doubled a prison sentence for its secretary-general, Sheikh Ali Salman. Famed activist Nabeel Rajab was imprisoned and now awaits sentencing on a charge of spreading "false news." Zainab al-Khawaja, the daughter of well-known activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who himself is serving a life sentence over his role in the 2011 protests, was forced into exile.
The standoff in Diraz began in June, when supporters of Shiite cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim surrounded his home after the government revoked his citizenship. Police now control entry to the town and film incoming local drivers, while Western expatriates blissfully jog past armored personnel carriers. Graffiti on nearby side streets demands "death" for King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, while others show crude drawings of Pearl Square, the epicenter of the 2011 protests, which was later demolished by the government. Internet access cuts off nightly here, an outage researchers blame on government interference.
Bahrain has blamed its unrest partly on Shiite power Iran, though a government-sponsored investigation said there wasn't a "discernable link" between the 2011 demonstrations and Tehran based on the information the government gave them.
Posters throughout Bahraini highways show heavily armed SWAT teams from a Gulf-wide police exercise on the island, part of recent military maneuvers designed as a deterrent to Iran following last year's nuclear deal. Low oil prices have hurt the local economy, and forced Saudi Arabia to scale back its international aid.
Two activists who spoke Wednesday to the AP on condition of anonymity for fear of facing criminal charges said Bahrain's rulers were inflaming sectarian tension through their crackdown. "They are betting on the silence of the West because of the supply of the facilities," one activist said, referring to the British and American bases. "They are compromising other things for this."
In a statement to AP, Bahrain's government said "no individual in Bahrain will, or can be, prosecuted for his or her political views due to the freedom of expression protections explicitly stated in the constitution," despite the cases to the contrary.
The British Foreign Office, while declining to address Prince Charles' private conversations, said United Kingdom officials have "frank discussions with the government of Bahrain about human rights concerns both in public and in private."
"We believe that it is not good enough to merely criticize other countries from the sidelines," the statement to the AP said. "Only by working with Bahrain are we able to bring about the changes we would like to see in the country."
However, even the day after the royals arrived, activists said prosecutors brought in several people for questioning likely ahead of filing criminal charges against them. Activists also offered a list of over 20 people recently put on a travel ban list, while independent news gathering grows more difficult.
On Thursday, Prince Charles traveled to the British Navy's new Mina Salman Support Facility, which the British Defense Ministry estimates will cost the U.K. at least 6.4 million pounds ($7.9 million), with Bahrain covering the rest. While there, Prince Charles visited the HMS Middletown docked at the base.
(1 of 3) An Iraqi girl, who was displaced by fighting in Mosul, looks out of her window at a camp for internally displaced people, in Hassan Sham, east of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. The United Nations says over 34,000 people have been displaced from Mosul, with about three quarters settled in camps and the rest in host communities.
They have taken at least half of the Aden neighborhood and clashes were still ongoing there, while the regular army's ninth division is stationed in east Mosul's Intisar neighborhood, they added, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to brief reporters. Skirmishes also continued in the city's southern outskirts.
Col. John Dorrian, a spokesman for the U.S.-led forces operating the key air campaign against IS, said that advancing troops and aircraft have destroyed some 70 tunnels the jihadis had been using to launch surprise attacks from inside densely populated areas.
"They've set up elaborate defenses, and we have to assume they'll do anything among the civilian population because they don't care about anyone," he said, noting that airstrikes had hit hundreds of IS positions in the three-week old Mosul campaign.
Iraqi troops are converging from several fronts on Mosul, the country's second largest city and the last major IS holdout in Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga forces are holding a line outside the city in the north, while Iraqi army and militarized police units approach from the south and government-sanctioned Shiite militias are guarding the western approaches.
The offensive has slowed in recent days as the special forces, the troops who have advanced the farthest, push into more densely populated areas of the city's east, where they cannot rely as much on airstrikes and shelling because of the risk posed to civilians who have been told to stay in their homes.
Over 34,000 people have been displaced in the fighting and are settling in camps and host communities in nearby provinces. Troops are trying to screen the crowds for potential IS fighters attempting to sneak out among the civilians, and some have admitted to meting out what they consider swift justice, by executing them.
On Thursday, Amnesty International issued its latest report on the abuses of security forces, urging the government to investigate and stop cases of arbitrary detention, forced disappearances and ill-treatment of prisoners. The London-based rights organization said it visited villages near the Shura and Qayara areas outside Mosul, where it says up to six people were "extrajudicially executed" in late October over suspected ties to IS.
"Men in Federal Police uniform have carried out multiple unlawful killings, apprehending and then deliberately killing in cold blood residents in villages south of Mosul," said Amnesty's Lynn Maalouf. "In some cases the residents were tortured before they were shot dead execution-style."
The battle front in that area has moved further north toward Mosul. Forces there are at the town of Hamam al-Alil, said Brig. Firas Bashar, the spokesman for Nineveh operations command. To the northeast, about 13 kilometers (8 miles) from the city, peshmerga continued to take territory in the town of Bashiqa, believed to be largely deserted except for dozens of IS fighters. They've have had the town surrounded for weeks, and have assaulted it with mortar and artillery fire.
At an area church in territory freshly freed from the militants' grip, priests rang bells for the first time in two years on Wednesday as the peshmerga worked to secure the town. "We are so happy at the liberation," said the Rev. Elkhoury Alfaran Elkhoury at the Mart Shoomy Church in Bahzani, a village near Bashiqa.
"They want to give a message to the world, and that message is damage, their message is destruction, their message is death," he said, highlighting damage to the church made by the jihadis while they occupied the area.
In New York, the U.N. said the progress meant that the days were numbered for the self-styled caliphate declared by IS from Mosul in 2014. "This liberation operation marks the beginning of the end of the so-called 'Da'esh caliphate' in Iraq," the U.N. envoy for the country told the Security Council on Wednesday, using the group's Arabic acronym.
Jan Kubis said that the U.N.'s humanitarian agencies were preparing to shelter even more of the tens of thousands of displaced people as winter approaches. He also warned that reconciliation and restoration of confidence in the government was necessary if the victories against IS are to be lasting.
Associated Press writers Brian Rohan in Baghdad and Susannah George in Qayara, Iraq contributed to this report.
(1 of 9) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, welcomes pro-Brexit British politician Nigel Farage, to speak at a campaign rally in Jackson, Miss. Britain's vote to leave the European Union was a major shock to the global political system. But in a year of political earthquakes, it has just been trumped. Like Brexit, Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election was driven by voters turning against established order and mainstream politicians.
Alexander Van der Bellen faces Norbert Hofer of the anti-establishment and anti-immigration Freedom Party in a Dec. 4 rerun of the runoff. Van der Bellen narrowly beat Hofer in May, but a court ordered a rerun after the Freedom Party successfully argued that irregularities had marred the results.
Van der Bellen said at a news conference Thursday that he hopes Trump's victory will be "seen as extra motivation to go vote, and vote for (Van der Bellen)," according to the Austria Press Agency. He said: "I don't want Austria to be the first western European country in which right-wing demagogues take power."
Austria's president has mostly ceremonial responsibilities, but a Hofer win would likely be viewed as a boost for other nationalist parties in Europe.
1:25 p.m.
Silvio Berlusconi is congratulating his fellow billionaire businessman-turned-politician, saying he is convinced President-elect Donald Trump will guarantee U.S. leadership in the free world "with authority and equilibrium."
Berlusconi's parallels to Trump are well known: A showman with a reputation as a womanizer who charmed Italians by speaking his mind, Berlusconi had a Trump-like improbable rise from cruise ship crooner to media mogul to three-time premier. He calls Vladimir Putin a friend.
A tax fraud conviction knocked Berlusconi out of parliament in 2013 and seriously hobbled his Forza Italia party. But Berlusconi, 80 and recovering from heart surgery, is still a political force in Italy and sent his "best wishes" to the president-elect in a Facebook message.
"I have always been and will always be the most loyal ally of the United States in Europe, recognizing the country that guaranteed our freedom for the 20th century," he wrote. "I'm convinced that the president chosen by the American people will, with authority and eqilibrium, guarantee the difficult role of the United States as the leader of the free world in today's complex and delicate global balance."
1 p.m.
U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, Britain's most prominent ally of Donald Trump, has claimed he is the "catalyst" for the president-elect's success.
In a radio interview, Farage also called President Barack Obama "loathsome" and joked about sexual assault allegations against Trump.
Farage, who was key in pushing Britain to vote to leave the European Union, claimed credit in Wednesday's Talk Radio interview for the rise of Trump and populist movements that are sweeping Europe.
The right-wing politician said "that Obama creature" was a "loathsome individual" who disliked Britain, while Trump, whose mother was Scottish, was friendly to the U.K.
Asked about Trump potentially meeting Prime Minister Theresa May, Farage said: "Come and schmooze Theresa — don't touch her, for goodness sake," before offering to attend "as the responsible adult role, to make sure everything's OK."
Several women have accused Trump of sexual assaults, which he denies.
12:55 p.m.
A top U.N. humanitarian aid official for Syria says he expects continued U.S. help in efforts to support beleaguered Syrian civilians under Donald Trump's presidency.
Jan Egeland also cited reports Thursday from Syria that "the last food rations are being distributed as we speak" in besieged eastern parts of the city of Aleppo.
Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Egeland said the U.N. needs "continued, uninterrupted U.S. help and engagement in the coming months," and noted that progress is made only when the United States and Russia, a backer of Syrian President Bashar Assad, are leading the diplomatic efforts.
Egeland, the aid chief in U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura's office, said he could not speculate about whether the prospect of improved U.S.-Russia relations under Trump would have an impact.
12:50 p.m.
France's president says European nations need strong, clear strategies on security and the economy as Donald Trump takes over the U.S. presidency, amid concerns that his victory will fortify populists who want to dismantle the EU.
Francois Hollande said Thursday that Trump's election "obliges Europeans to be clear and lucid and capable of facing the challenges that concern them."
Hollande, who had endorsed Hillary Clinton, also suggested European countries should be ready to stand up to Trump if necessary. "Europe wishes to be together with the U.S. but has to be in a position to decide for itself, too."
A leading contender in France's presidential elections in April and May is far right leader Marine Le Pen, who wants to quit the EU and who hailed Trump's victory, saying it "buried the old order."
Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, after meeting Hollande in Paris, urged a more decisive European Union following Britain's decision to leave. He called for clearer policies on security and migration, amid criticism that Europe is too lax on both, saying "this is where the European Union needs to deliver."
11:45 a.m.
An Israeli Cabinet minister has called for a renewed wave of settlement construction now that President-elect Donald Trump is signaling an end to longstanding White House opposition to the settlements.
Science Minister Ofir Akunis told Army Radio Thursday that, "We need to think how we move forward now when the administration in Washington, the Trump administration and his advisers, are saying that there is no place for a Palestinian state."
Earlier, Jason Greenblatt, one of Trump's advisers on Israel, told Army Radio that Trump doesn't believe settlement activity should be condemned and doesn't view the settlements as an obstacle to peace with the Palestinians.
Multiple U.S. administrations have condemned any construction on land captured by Israel in the 1967 war — land that Palestinians want for a future state.
11:40 a.m.
About two dozen Filipino left-wing students have burned a portrait of President-elect Donald Trump along with a mock American flag at the U.S. Embassy in Manila, warning of worse times under his upcoming leadership.
Left-wing protests by students, labor and human rights groups are a common sight at the heavily-fortified embassy, often staged to oppose the presence of visiting U.S. forces in the former American colony. But activists say they are bracing for more intense rallies against Trump.
Protest leader JP Rosos says: "We are not expecting that it (U.S.) will remove its control on the Philippines and in the Asia Pacific."
He says under Trump, "we expect it to worsen with his anti-Muslim, anti-black and anti-immigrants declarations."
More than 100 riot police kept watch, but the small group of protesters dispersed without any incidents or arrests.
11:20 a.m.
Hungary's prime minister says Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election will allow Western civilization to return to "true democracy and straight, honest talk" as it is freed from the "paralyzing constraint of political correctness."
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who said in July that Trump's migration policies made him the better choice for Europe, said Thursday that the results of the U.S. elections also meant that the West had rid itself of "liberal non-democracy," which had held it in "ideological captivity" for the past 20 years.
Orban said the world is living in "great times" thanks to Trump's victory and the British decision to leave the European Union, which he described as "not a tragedy" but an attempt by Britain to find its own road to success. Orban met with British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday in London.
10 a.m.
Iran's semi-official Fars news agency is reporting that the armed forces chief of staff has criticized Donald Trump for his past harsh words about confronting Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf.
The report quotes Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri as saying, "The person who has recently achieved power, has talked off the top of his head! Threatening Iran in the Persian Gulf is just a joke."
He said American presidential candidates during their campaigns "eat too much sugar," a reference to a Farsi proverb about those who talk nonsense.
In September, Trump said Iranian ships trying to provoke the U.S. "will be shot out of the water."
In January, Iran took 10 American sailors prisoner ship veered off course into Iranian waters; they were released a day later.
9:30 a.m.
A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump says his boss doesn't think Israeli settlements should be condemned and they don't pose an "obstacle to peace."
Jason Greenblatt's comments to Israel's Army Radio Thursday would mark a stark departure from the long-time American stance that Israeli construction in areas captured in the 1967 war makes it more difficult to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
Greenblatt is the chief legal officer and executive vice president at the Trump Organization. He has been tapped by Trump as his top adviser on Israel.
Israel and the U.S. are close allies but relations were often tense between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, mainly over Israel's policies toward the Palestinians. Netanyahu and Trump are friendly and ties are expected to improve.
8:55 a.m.
Pakistani foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz says his country would like to work with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on the common interest of combatting terrorism.
In an interview with Pakistan's Geo News channel Thursday, he says that helping negotiate a political settlement in Afghanistan is another area where the two countries could work together.
The U.S. president-elect has publicly criticized Pakistan in the past for battling some Islamic militant groups while tolerating others.
Aziz acknowledged that perception, but said such policies were "in the past."
Local and al-Qaida linked Islamic militants who have had long used Pakistan's lawless tribal regions along the Afghan border as safe havens. The Afghan government frequently accuses Islamabad of sheltering the senior leadership of the Taliban.
8:20 a.m.
South Korea says President-elect Donald Trump has promised to maintain the countries' strong alliance to guard against what he describes as "the instability in North Korea."
President Park Geun-hye's office says Trump made the comments while saying he believes North Korea is very unstable during a 10-minute telephone conversation with Park on Thursday.
Park's office quotes Trump as saying the United States "will be steadfast and strong with respect to working with (South Korea) to protect against the instability in North Korea."
A statement from Park's office says Trump told Park "we are going to be with you 100 percent" when Park proposed strengthening the alliance to make the North Korean leadership change its way of thinking.
There have been worries in South Korea that a Trump presidency could bring a major shift in U.S. economic and diplomatic ties with Seoul. Trump has questioned the value of the U.S.-South Korea security alliance.
6:30 a.m.
A Japanese official says Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump next week.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters Thursday that Abe and Trump had talked by telephone and confirmed the importance of the Japan-U.S. alliance and their commitment for cooperation.
Their meeting "marks a very good start for building trust," Suga said. Their talks are being arranged for Nov. 17 in New York.
Officials said Abe and Trump also confirmed their resolve to cooperate in ensuring peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, but did not discuss the trans-Pacific trade pact and other contentious issues such as the cost of American troops in Japan.
Kyodo News agency additionally reported that Trump praised the Japanese premier's "Abenomics" economic measures
