Requested India to provide list of illegal nationals: Bangladesh Minister

He said India has termed the NRC process as its internal matter and assured Dhaka that it would not affect Bangladesh

Current Affairs:Bangladesh Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen on Sunday said his nation has mentioned India to give a rundown of any Bangladesh nationals living illicitly in the nation and it will enable them to return.

Reacting to an inquiry on India’s National Register of Citizenship (NRC), Momen, who dropped his visit to India on Thursday refering to his bustling calendar, said Bangladesh-India relations are ordinary and “extremely sweet” and they won’t be influenced.

He said India has named the NRC procedure as its inward issue and guaranteed Dhaka that it would not influence Bangladesh.

He dismissed hypothesis of “pushback” endeavors by India, saying some Indian nationals are wrongfully entering Bangladesh through go betweens because of monetary reasons.

“Yet, in the event that anyone other than our residents enters Bangladesh, we will send them back,” he enlightened media here when asked concerning reports that a few people are illicitly entering the nation through outskirts with India.

Momen said Bangladesh has mentioned New Delhi to give a rundown of Bangladeshis living wrongfully in India, “assuming any”, to be repatriated.

“We will permit them (Bangladesh residents) as they reserve the option to go into their own nation,” he said.

Inquired as to why he dropped his India visit, the priest said his bustling calendar corresponding with the Martyred Intellectuals Day and Victory Day and furthermore the nonattendance of the state serve for outside undertakings Shahriar Alam and the service’s secretary in the nation caused him to concede his visit.

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Hope to see rapid easing of restrictions in Kashmir from India: US

She also said that Trump “is willing to mediate if asked by both parties” — although she noted that India has long rejected any outside role

Current Affairs :-The United States needs New Delhi to rapidly ease confinements forced in Kashmir, a senior authority said after President Donald Trump met the pioneers of India and Pakistan.

“We would like to see fast activity – the lifting of the confinements and the arrival of the individuals who have been kept,” Alice Wells, the top State Department official for South Asia, told columnists Thursday.

She likewise said that Trump “is happy to intervene whenever asked by the two gatherings” – in spite of the fact that she noticed that India has since quite a while ago dismissed any outside job.

“The United States is worried by across the board confinements, including those of legislators and business pioneers, and the limitations on the occupants of Jammu and Kashmir,” she said.

“We anticipate the Indian government’s resumption of political commitment with nearby pioneers and the planning of the guaranteed decisions at the soonest opportunity,” she said.

Head administrator Narendra Modi in August renounced the self-governing status of Jammu and Kashmir. Indian specialists kept a wide scope of political pioneers and snapped off cell and web access for normal individuals in a great part of the Himalayan locale.

Wells said the United States has raised worries on Kashmir “at the most significant levels,” without saying if Trump raised Kashmir with Modi.

Trump on Sunday joined Modi in a joint assembly of in excess of 50,000 Indian-Americans in Houston, with the two loading acclaim on one another.

Trump additionally heard worries on Kashmir from Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan.

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Connaught Place 9th most expensive office location; Hong Kong tops chart

In its annual Global Prime Office Occupancy Costs survey, CBRE tracks the cost of leasing prime office space globally

Economy:-New Delhi’s Connaught Place (CP) is the ninth most costly office area on the planet with a yearly lease of almost $144 per sq ft, as indicated by property advisor CBRE.

CP, situated in the core of the national capital, was at the ninth position even a year ago.

In its yearly Global Prime Office Occupancy Costs study, CBRE tracks the expense of renting prime office space internationally.

For the subsequent year, Hong Kong’s Central area held the top spot as the world’s most costly market for prime office rents, with the prime inhabitance costs esteemed at $322 per sq.ft.

“New Delhi’s Connaught Place – focal business region (CBD) holds its ninth position in the rundown as a year ago and the workplace inhabitance cost is esteemed at $143.97 per sq ft,” the report said.

Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex and Nariman Point CBD slipped to 27th and 40th positions, separately.

Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) was positioned 26th and Nariman Point at 37th in 2018 positioning.

The present yearly prime lease of BKC is esteemed at $90.67 per sq. ft and the Nariman Point CBD is esteemed at $68.38 per sq ft.

Indian markets kept on having more noteworthy speculation evaluation space in the CBDs of the various urban areas as conspicuous residential and worldwide corporates kept on favoring venture evaluation space for setting in advance their front workplaces in these urban communities,” said Anshuman Magazine, Chairman and CEO, India, South East Asia, Middle East and Africa, CBRE.

The business office market remains a solid development propeller for the land area, he included.

“Delhi, being a prime market, keeps on seeing supported movement and holds its situation among the main 10 most costly markets on the planet,” Magazine said.

CBRE featured that six of the world’s 10 most costly office markets are found in Asia.

London’s (West End) is positioned second, trailed by Hong Kong (Kowloon) and New York (Midtown Manhattan).

Beijing’s (Finance Street) is at the fifth position on the rundown.

In its report, CBRE underlined the developing hugeness of ability securing race, driving the prime inhabitance cost to more up to date statures.

“This, joined with restricted supply and moderate development pipelines in many urban areas, are the main impetuses behind the value development,” it included.

The report likewise recommends negligible moves in the Top 10 Most Expensive Market universally, with most nations exhibiting a firm hang on their worldwide situating as a year ago.

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Healthier air quality in car-free stretch of Karol Bagh: CSE study

The street has been marked with yellow and white stripes demarcating space for hawkers

Elections:-A confined report led on a vehicle free stretch of the Ajmal Khan Road in the clamoring Karol Bagh market has appeared extensive improvement in air quality.

The Center for Science and Environment’s Anumita Roychowdhury, who led the examination, said she thought about air quality information gathered from the traffic-gagged Arya Samaj Road, which slices through the Ajmal Khan Road, with that from the as of late pedestrianized 600-meter extend.

“We checked roadside introduction to air contamination, which is unique in relation to encompassing air quality, on the Arya Samaj Road amid substantial traffic. We at that point moved to the vehicle free zone of the Ajmal Khan Road and gathered the information,” she said.

Roychowdhury, official chief of research and support at CSE, found that while the normal “PM2.5 fixation on the Arya Samaj Road is 63.6 micrograms per cubic meter, it is 47.7 micrograms per cubic meter on the Ajmal Khan Road”.

The momentary spike of PM2.5 on the Arya Samaj Road could hit 105.4 micrograms per cum 42.8 percent higher than the most noteworthy transient spike in the walker region, she said.

Not just this, the walker traffic out and about has expanded fundamentally. The quantity of walkers per five minutes on the Ajmal Khan Road was 2.7 occasions the number on the Arya Samaj Road, she said.

Floated by the reaction from individuals, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) , which did the pilot venture on decongestion in Karol Bagh, presently plans to extend the plan to different regions to advance utilization of open transport and make advertise territories increasingly person on foot inviting.

“In the wake of seeing the reaction at Karol Bagh, we are presently intending to do comparable ventures in Kirti Nagar and Kamla Nagar advertise zones. World over, from London to Shanghai, pedestrianization of market zones have improved customers’ involvement, and we additionally need individuals of Delhi to feel that comfort,” NDMC Commissioner Varsha Joshi had disclosed to PTI before.

The road has been set apart with yellow and white stripes dividing space for vendors. Additionally, bollards have been put at the passage purposes of Ajmal Khan Road on Pusa Road and Arya Samaj Road to confine section of vehicles to the street.

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Pak media calls Modi’s victory emphatic, highlights threat to minorities

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was re-elected for a second term with BJP alone winning 300 seats.

Current Affairs :-Head administrator Narendra Modi’s re-appointment for a second five-year term drew a blended reaction from the media in Pakistan with some considering it a compassionate order dependent on national security while others naming it a worldwide pattern of conservative populists clearing to triumph.

Shockingly the counter Modi sting in the media was absent with respect to numerous outlets it was anything but a startling result of the races.

There was additionally no utilization in customary announcing of risk to Muslims and minorities by Modi or his BJP. Be that as it may, examination and publication highlighted such dangers.

The component of inside and out inclusion of races pursued by profound investigation was absent as practically all papers and other news sources were reliant on news offices without devoted announcing groups in India.

First light in a first page report composed that Modi won a decided command by and large decisions that saw him pitching national security as a powerful charm.

“In anticipating himself as the choreographer of air strikes on Balakot over the fringe, Mr Modi seriously wounded an irritable and unequal restriction, as per the paper.

The following government in New Delhi will decide the course of Indo-Pakistan ties, which were pushed to a new low after the Pulwama dread assault. Amid the crusade, Modi pestered national security issues, including a counter-fear activity did at the greatest JeM preparing camp in Pakistan’s Balakot.

First light composed a blistering article about the accomplishment of Modi, naming it a triumph of common governmental issues.

“For the world’s biggest popular government, the composing is on the divider: public legislative issues in India has triumphed during a time that will characterize the fate of the republic,” it worte.

It composed that the outcomes are amazing, and depressingly demonstrate that religious contempt and partisan legislative issues can be misused to bait voters.

“Outstandingly, the months paving the way to Mr Modi’s crusade were set apart by against Muslim and hostile to Pakistan blusters, with India venturing to such an extreme as to heighten strains by directing air strikes inside Pakistan so as to prepare patriot feeling, it opined.

The News International named Modi’s success as “sensational” however included that it just was impression of a worldwide pattern.

“His re-appointment strengthens a worldwide pattern of conservative populists clearing to triumph, from the United States to Brazil and Italy, regularly in the wake of embracing cruel positions on protectionism, migration and safeguard,” as indicated by the report.

Be that as it may, a diagnostic article by Aijaz Zaka Syed showed up in The News International credited Modi for the triumph of the BJP.

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3 out of 7 seats in Delhi get more women to vote in this Lok Sabha election

According to the official data, 60.15 percent of women voters came out to vote as compared to 60.82 percent of men. The overall voting percentage dropped to 60.52 from 2014.

LokSabha Elections 2019: East Delhi, New Delhi and South Delhi parliamentary voting demographics saw more ladies ending up voting when contrasted with men, authorities said Thursday.

Delhi recorded a turnout of 60.52 percent in the surveys on May 12, five rate focuses down from 2014.

As per official information, 60.82 percent male voters and 60.15 percent female voters practiced their correct this time.

The East Delhi voting demographic, which is seeing a triangular challenge between BJP’s Gautam Gambhir, Congress’ Arvinder Singh Lovely and AAP’s Atishi Marlena, saw 61.80 percent ladies practicing their entitlement to cast a ballot when contrasted with 61.50 percent of male voters.

The New Delhi voting demographic, which has numerous VVIP voters, recorded the least voter turnout among every one of the seven voting public in Delhi at 56.86 percent, yet observed a superior turnout of ladies than men. As per the information, 57.21 percent of ladies voters cast their votes while 56.58 percent men practiced their establishment in the seat.

South Delhi, which had the second most reduced turnout of voters, saw 58.89 percent of ladies voters when contrasted with 58.60 percent of male voters.

The Northeast Delhi Lok Sabha supporters, where previous Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Delhi BJP boss Manoj Tiwari and AAP’S Dilip Pandey are challenging, recorded the most noteworthy voter turnout at 63.67 percent.

While 64.46 percent of men cast their votes, 62.72 percent ladies ended up voting.

In a first for the city, upwards of 17 corners with all ladies surveying authorities were set up for the Lok Sabha races in the seven electorates of Delhi.

Out of the 17 corners, 10 had been set up in East Delhi voting demographic, two in Chandni Chowk and one each in North East Delhi, West Delhi, South Delhi, New Delhi and North west Delhi.

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India navy set to open third base in strategic islands to counter China

About 1,20,000 ships pass through the Indian Ocean each year and nearly 70,000 of them pass through the Malacca Strait

India’s naval force will open a third air base in the Andaman and Nicobar islands on Thursday to amplify observation of Chinese ships and submarines entering the Indian Ocean through the adjacent Malacca Straits, military authorities and specialists said. New Delhi has become worried over the nearness of China’s greater naval force in its neighborhood and the system of business ports it is working in a curve extending from Sri Lanka to Pakistan that India fears could wind up maritime stations.

The Indian military has seized upon the Andamans that lie close to the passage to the Malacca Straits to counter the Chinese test, conveying boats and flying machine since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in 2014 promising an increasingly strong arrangement.

Indian naval force boss naval commander Sunil Lanba will commission the new base, called INS Kohassa, around 300 km (180 miles) north of the archipelago’s capital, Port Blair, the naval force said in an announcement.

The office, the third in the islands, will have a 1,000-meter runway for helicopters and Dornier observation air ship. Be that as it may, in the end the arrangement is for the runway to be stretched out to 3,000 meters to help warrior air ship and longer-run observation flying machine, naval force representative Captain D.K. Sharma said.

Around 1,20,000 boats go through the Indian Ocean every year and almost 70,000 of them go through the Malacca Strait.

“The basic thing is the extending Chinese nearness. On the off chance that we need to truly screen Chinese nearness, we should be enough prepared in the Andaman islands,” said previous naval force commodore Anil Jai Singh.

“In the event that you have air bases you can cover a bigger zone,” he stated, adding he anticipated that the naval force should forever send more ships to the islands in the following period of the development.

A Chinese submarine docked in Sri Lanka’s Colombo port in 2014 that attracted such alert New Delhi that Modi’s legislature raised the issue with the Sri Lankan specialists.

The two India and China have been secured a challenge for impact, with New Delhi attempting to push back against Beijing’s extensive discretion in the district.