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Citizenship Bill: US urges India to protect rights of religious minorities “The US urges India to protect the rights of its religious minorities in keeping with India’s Constitution and democratic values,” the spokesperson said. Current Affairs :he US has encouraged India to ensure the privileges of its strict minorities with regards to its Constitution and law based qualities as it keeps on observing the improvements in different Indian states identified with the combative Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. “We are firmly following advancements with respect to the Citizenship Amendment Bill. Regard for strict opportunity and equivalent treatment under the law are crucial standards of our two majority rule governments,” a State Department representative said on Thursday. “The US urges India to secure the privileges of its strict minorities with regards to India’s Constitution and popularity based qualities,” the representative said. The Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), whi...

US hikes H1B application fee by $10 as part of revised selection process This non-refundable fee will support the new electronic registration system to make the H-1B cap selection process more efficient for both petitioners and the federal agency Current Affairs :The United States has declared the expansion of H-1B work visa application expense by USD 10 as a component of its reconsidered choice procedure. This non-refundable charge will bolster the new electronic enlistment framework to make the H-1B top choice procedure increasingly effective for the two candidates and the government office, said the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Thursday. “This exertion will help execute a progressively proficient and viable H-1B top determination process,” said USCIS Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli. “The electronic enlistment framework is a piece of an office wide activity to modernize our movement framework while stopping misrepresentation, improving checking s...

Ready to mediate on Kashmir issue if asked by India, Pakistan: Trump If the president is asked to mediate by both countries, he has expressed his willingness and his interests to help facilitate a solution Current Affairs :US President Donald Trump is prepared to intercede among India and Pakistan on the issue of Kashmir just whenever asked by both the nations, a senior organization authority said on Thursday emphasizing that the onus for harmony talks lies on Islamabad by taking continued and irreversible activities against psychological oppressor gatherings. President Trump clearly has communicated his worry over the degree of pressure among India and Pakistan. What’s more, he talked about Kashmir legitimately in his gatherings with Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Imran Khan, a senior State Department authority said. “He (Trump) surely is set up to assume an intercession job, if both the nations inquire. It has been India’s position not to look for outside intercessi...

World leaders come up short at UN summit as millions demand climate action Under the Paris Agreement, countries are expected to submit new, and ideally more ambitious, climate action plans every five years. The next presentations are due in 2020 Current Affairs  :- A huge number of individuals in 170 nations rioted to dissent. World pioneers arranged at the United Nations to vow activity. A 16-year-old young lady, near tears, disgraced them for denying her of a future. The strain to follow up on environmental change is mounting. Titans of worldwide business and legislative issues accumulated in New York this week for a progression of occasions, including the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York, to recognize that progressively should be done – yet missed the mark regarding saying precisely what will be finished. “Time is running out in the court of general feeling, since time is heading out to address environmental change,” New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda ...

Youth show the mirror to major nations including India at UN climate summit 16 children, including India’s Ridhima Pandey, said they would petition the UN against five big carbon polluters in the world Current Affairs  :- At the United Nations (UN) crisis atmosphere summit, 16 youngsters, including India’s Ridhima Pandey, said they would request of the UN against five major carbon polluters on the planet – Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey- – for abusing their privileges as kids by neglecting to satisfactorily diminish emanations. Pandey, 11, is from Haridwar in Uttarakhand, and had, in 2017, recorded a body of evidence against the Indian government at the National Green Tribunal for neglecting to make a move against environmental change. As nations emphasized old vows to control environmental change, the adolescent, driven by 16-year-old Swedish atmosphere lobbyist Greta Thunberg, rose as atmosphere pioneers. “I ought to be back in school on the opposit...

Bitcoin surges past $11,000 while stocks plunge on trade war fears The largest cryptocurrency surged as much as 14 per cent from Friday’s close and traded at $11,809 at 10:35 a.m. in New York International :- Bitcoin moved over the $11,000 level just because since mid-July and drove gains among the greatest digital currencies, as hazard resources crosswise over Asia, Europe and North America tumbled on raising exchange war strains. The biggest cryptographic money flooded as much as 14 percent from Friday’s nearby and exchanged at $11,809 at 10:35 a.m. in New York, as indicated by merged Bloomberg evaluating. The Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index following a container of cryptographic forms of money bounced 8.6 percent, as opponent computerized coins including Ether and Litecoin additionally encouraged. “With the unrest in business sectors and the roads, all of a sudden computerized gold doesn’t appear such an ill-conceived notion,” Jehan Chu, overseeing accomplice at blockch...

Donald Trump escalates trade war with new tariffs on Chinese imports The new tariff will be imposed beginning September 1, Trump said in a tweet Current Affairs :- President Donald Trump said he would force a 10% duty on $300 billion in Chinese imports that aren’t yet expose to US obligations after misfortunes in exchange dealings among Washington and Beijing. The new duty will be forced starting September 1, he said in a tweet. Another $250 billion in Chinese products are as of now subject to a 25% US tax. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer came back from converses with Chinese partners in Shangai this week without revealing much advancement. Dealings have been at an impasse since May after the US said the Chinese reneged on arrangements of a provisional arrangement. US stocks pared gains on the news, while yields on 10-year Treasuries tumbled to the most reduced since 2016. Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met at t...

Over 1,21,000 mt of plastic waste being slyly imported into India: Report Expressing concern over the growing import, the study said it may hamper the efforts to control plastic pollution Current Affairs :- In excess of 1,21,000 metric ton (MT) of plastic waste is as a rule “guilefully” imported in India by organizations and recyclers, which is antagonistically influencing the endeavors to diminish plastic contamination, as indicated by an examination. The investigation, directed by NGO Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Smriti Manch (PDUSM), expressed that 55,000 metric ton of plastic waste is being imported in India from Pakistan and Bangladesh. “More than 55,000 MT plastic waste is imported from Pakistan and Bangladesh joined. The import is occurring from in excess of 25 nations which incorporate the center east, Europe and the USA,” it said. “The Indian recyclers and plastic organizations are shrewdly bringing in utilized PET plastic jugs as chips and protuberances, while h...

US on defensive mode: Kashmir a ‘bilateral issue’, says State Department Richard Verma, the US ambassador to India during the last years of the Obama administration, said Trump “did a lot of damage” with his remarks on Kashmir and Afghanistan, which were “way off the mark” Current Affairs :- US President Donald Trump’s comments guaranteeing Prime Minister Narendra Modi had looked for his intercession in the Kashmir issue, activated sharp responses, including from the Congress, as the US State Department went into a harm control mode. The State Department on Tuesday said it was a “reciprocal” issue among India and Pakistan, and the US “respected” the two nations “plunking down” for talks. It likewise said Pakistan taking “supported and irreversible” strides against fear based oppression was vital to a fruitful discourse with India. “While Kashmir is a reciprocal issue for the two gatherings to talk about, the Trump organization invites Pakistan and India plunking down and...

IMF issues fresh warning, says trade war risks weighing on global economy While the US trade war with China has cooled with a recent truce and renewed talks, the world’s second-largest economy has slowed amid President Donald Trump’s tariffs Technology :- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said more work is expected to further decrease worldwide exchange irregular characteristics in the midst of expanding pressures, while issuing a crisp cautioning that such clashes are burdening the worldwide economy. “It is basic that all nations stay away from approaches that mutilate exchange,” the IMF said in its yearly External Sector Report discharged Wednesday in Washington. “Against a background of heightening exchange pressures, more prominent criticalness is required in handling diligent abundance uneven characters.” The report comes as the Washington-based reserve defies a flood in protectionism around the globe that is seen delaying worldwide development, with yield moder...