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THE AFTERMATHS OF THE PULWAMA ATTACK Messages of solidarity with India and outrage against Pakistan continue to pour in from different parts of the world as New Delhi tries to deal with the aftermath of Pulwama suicide attack that killed 42 soldiers in Kashmir. Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) has accepted the responsibility of the attack. With Lashkar-e-Toaiba (LeT) busy in Balochistan and Afghanistan, most analysts now call JeM as the face of Pakistan-led terrorism in India’s Jammu & Kashmir. As expected, Pakistan denied involvement in the attack although JeM-chief, Molana Masood Azhar, resides in the Pakistani city of Bahawalpur. In this scenario, China’s efforts to block a UN-maneuvered ban on the JeM-chief is a grave concern for the international community. It would not be far-fetched to say that China, which openly interferes in the occupied-Gilgit-Baltistan, now holds a veto to peace in India. Like the international community, a large number of...

Adapting technical assistance to meet the challenge As COVID-19 moves from a health crisis to an economic crisis, we are trying to anticipate how small businesses around the world will weather this storm and where we need to focus our efforts. ITC works with micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), primarily in the developing world. The typical small business we work with employs between 10 and 20 people, is close to or is already export-ready, and wants to grow internationally. These MSMEs represent 60%-70% of jobs in developing countries and around half of economic activity¹. Moreover, they tend to employ young people and women. It is still too early to estimate how deeply the pandemic will affect our core constituency. Small businesses are already or will soon face a liquidity crisis, which could wipe out whole segments of the economy. In the next few months, they will face a range of challenges that will depend, to a large degree, on how policymakers react to the crisis...

[MAR Activity] Review: Pather Panchali (1955) It was in 1980 that Nargis Dutt, a renowned Hindi actress and member of Indian Parliament, accused filmmaker Satyajit Ray of “exporting poverty”. At the time, Ray was one of the few Indian filmmakers to gain significant attention with Western audiences, and Dutt argued that his focus on the plight of India’s poverty-stricken people ignored the reality of what many perceived to be a new, wealthy and evolving India. Her arguments were the result of a broader sense of middle-class anxiety about India’s international image that continues to this day, and may go part of the way to explaining why Satyajit Ray’s films were not always received as warmly at home as they were abroad. But the film for which Ray is most lauded both within India and around the world is still his directorial debut,  Pather Panchali  (1955), released 60 years ago, on August 26. Set within the confines of a rural Bengali village,  Pather Panchal...

[MAR Activity] Movie Review: Parasite (2019) Set in Seoul, it’s about two families who are mirror images of each other, one rich, one poor, and the relationship that develops between them. We meet the family of Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik) first, four adults, all unemployed and living in desperate circumstances. A cramped, smelly semi-basement flat looking up into a rough street. They’re supportive of each other but they haven’t got a hope or a plan. The mother, Chung-sook (Chang Hyae-jin), is an ex-athlete, father Ki-taek (Bong’s regular star Song Kang-ho) has suffered multiple business failures. Both of their children, Ki-woo and his sister Ki-jung (Park So-dam), are smart but have repeatedly failed university entrance exams. They’re so broke their wifi has been cut off and they spend their time trying to get reception by depending upon others. Then a student friend brings Ki-woo a present, a lucky rock said to bring wealth and offers him a lifeline, the chance to take over his cu...

A vehicle for investing in stocks and bonds   A mutual fund is not an alternative investment option to stocks and bonds, rather it pools the money of several investors and invests this in stocks, bonds, money market instruments and other types of securities.   Buying a mutual fund is like buying a small slice of a big pizza. The owner of a mutual fund unit gets a proportional share of the fund’s gains, losses, income and expenses.   Each mutual fund has a specific stated objective   The fund’s objective is laid out in the fund's prospectus, which is the legal document that contains information about the fund, its history, its officers and its performance.   Some popular objectives of a mutual fund are -   Fund Objective                             What the fund will invest in Equity (Growth)                    ...

Blockchain is a digital ledger in which transactions made in bitcoin or another cryptocurrency are recorded chronologically and publicly.Control of the database remains with Wikipedia administrators allowing for access and permissions to be maintained by a central authority.Wikipedia’s digital backbone is similar to the highly protected and centralized databases that governments or banks or insurance companies keep today. Control of centralized databases rests with their owners, including the management of updates, access and protecting against cyber-threats.The distributed database created by blockchain technology has a fundamentally different digital backbone. This is also the most distinct and important feature of blockchain technology. Wikipedia’s ‘master copy’ is edited on a server and all users see the new version. In the case of a blockchain, every node in the network is coming to the same conclusion, each updating the record independently, with the most popular record ...

As the iphone 7 release date is coming near, more and more people are becoming interested in knowing more about iphone 7. Samsung has already done with this with the galaxy s7 , they give a good competition to other brands. But now  what about iphone 7? Well we all ready see the rumors which is not deflected it. We got some rumors like iphone 7 may get a dual camera with a special connecter on the bottom.  There are some pictures also available which has been leaks.  You can check macrumora :) . Apple iphone 7 will be a true masterpiece. Just wait for iphone 7 release date and I am pretty sure that you are going to love excellent features. Like apple all ready introduced us with there iphone 6s 3D touch features. That was really a mind blowing feature. But now what to next? Well we see this year that how's the VR blow our mind now days lot's of people addicted to it and other they are also interested to use that too. So may be this thing get attention to apple. May be t...