Beijing, Jul 6 (PTI) China, the world’s largest carbon emitter, has put up advertisements at public places depicting the environmental issues in Indian cities like Mumbai to warn its people about the impact of climate change and encourage them to plan future around low carbon development.

Advertisements depicting pictures of Mumbai and Allahabad among others have been put up along the streets and places such as Wangfujing city center area in downtown prominently to draw people’s attention towards consequences of pollution.

China, which pledges to cut carbon emissions and plan to minimise the adverse impact on its economy, highlighted issues of plastic garbage, sandstorms in Indian cities in its ads and also suggested ways to address the environmental challenges.

One of the ads says the grim situation teenagers faced in Mumbai on not finding appropriate place to play is due to heap of plastic garbage.

“The beaches in Mumbai were covered in plastic garbage, teenagers, eager to release energy of youth, had no choice but to play cricket in the garbage heap,” said one of the ads, which prominently highlights a picture showing a boy playing cricket on heap of garbage at a beach.

Another advertisement speaks about Allahabad.

“On July 12, 2015, the city of Allahabad in India was hit by sandstorms, the resulting low visibility made it impossible for pedestrian to see each others in the sand,” describes the billboard under the concept of low carbon development.

The picture put up with the message shows four persons facing sandstorm while walking in front of a written slogan of ‘Ganga Bachao’ campaign.

The board of advertisements, written in English as well as Chinese language, have been erected along the footpath and catches attention of visitors in Wangfujing road area, which has shopping malls and is located within walking distance of noted destinations like Forbidden city and Tiananmen Square.

The message about Indian cities are among over a dozen such advertisements which describe environmental issues and problem in other countries also, which included drought in Australia, and shows approach for low carbon activities that could in turn ensure energy security and reduce pollution.

Low-carbon development is China’s one of the key strategies to achieve its target of reducing carbon intensity and to make its contribution in solving problems of global warming and sea level rising.

Looking at the projection of population for years to come, China plans its major cities and fast growing urban areas around low carbon development and finds opportunity to create global model for the sustainable and low carbon cities.

For this, the government has developed a low-carbon strategy that includes more efficient energy and waste water use, transport systems that reduce congestion, and sustainable urban design.

A recent study had pointed out that India and China suffer over USD 1.89 trillion annually in terms of the value of lives lost and ill health caused from air pollution.

Germany and France scrambled to avoid a major split over Greece on Monday evening as the eurozone delivered a damning verdict on Alexis Tsipras’s landslide referendum victory on Sunday and Angela Merkel demanded that the Greek prime minister put down new proposals to break the deadlock.

As concerns mount that Greek banks will run out of cash, and about the damage being inflicted on the country’s economy, hopes for a breakthrough faded. EU leaders voiced despair and descended into recrimination over how to respond to Sunday’s overwhelming rejection of eurozone austerity terms as the price for keeping Greece in the currency.

Tsipras, meanwhile, moved to insure himself against purported eurozone plots to topple him and force regime change by engineering a national consensus of the country’s five mainstream parties behind his negotiating strategy, focused on securing debt relief. Tsipras also sacrificed his controversial finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, in what was seen as a conciliatory signal towards Greece’s creditors.

In Paris, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande tried to plot a common strategy after Greeks returned a resounding no to five years of eurozone-scripted austerity. The two leaders were trying to find a joint approach to the growing crisis ahead of an emergency eurozone summit on Tuesday to deal with the fallout.

But Merkel said there was no current basis for negotiating with the Greek side and called on Tsipras to make the next move.

As eurozone leaders prepared for today’s emergency summit in Brussels, the heads of government were at odds. France, Italy and Spain are impatient for a deal while Germany, the European commission and northern Europe seem content to let Greece stew and allow the euphoria following Sunday’s vote to give way to the sobering realities of bank closures, cash shortages and isolation.

Greek banks are to remain closed until Thursday at the earliest, it was announced, with ATM withdrawals rationed to €60 daily.

“The prospects of a happy resolution of this crisis are rapidly diminishing,” said the British chancellor, George Osborne, after speaking to some of the key policymakers. “If there is no signal from these meetings that Greece and the eurozone are ready to get around the table again, we can expect the financial situation in Greece to deteriorate rapidly.”

The commission had nothing positive at all to say about Sunday’s Greek referendum, while Germany’s increasingly hardline social democratic leader, Sigmar Gabriel, warned that Greece was on the brink of insolvency.

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He accused Tsipras, the radical leftist prime minister who outmanoeuvred the rest of the eurozone with his plebiscite, of ruthlessly pursuing the Greek national interest at everyone else’s expense. His message suggested a Grexit was now inevitable as he stressed the need for EU humanitarian programmes to forestall social implosion in Greece.

Tsipras is expected to table new bailout proposals on Tuesday to eurozone leaders meeting in Brussels after he ditched the flamboyant Varoufakis. Over five months of negotiations, Varoufakis, a leftwing economist and neophyte politician, has rubbed his interlocutors up the wrong way, persistently arguing he is right and everyone else is wrong when it comes to dealing with the Greek debt crisis.

The detail of Sunday’s voting patterns left no doubt about the devastating verdict and the challenges it now presents to Europe’s leaders. Around 80% of voters under the age of 34 voted no on Sunday.

Germany’s Gabriel said the Greeks had simply rejected the single currency rules, while Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister, delivered a cri de coeur lamenting the desperate situation the eurozone and the EU now found themselves in.

“Two political building sites need our work urgently, in European capitals and in Brussels,” he said. “If we stand still, prisoners of rules, regulations, and bureaucracy, Europe is over. Reconstructing a different Europe will not be easy … The first one is Greece, a country in very difficult social and economic conditions. Meetings tomorrow will have to indicate a conclusive solution to this emergency.”

Merkel has taken a hard line with Greece since Tsipras announced his snap referendum 10 days ago, while the French have been much more accommodating towards Athens. A brief statement issued after the leaders had dined together on Monday evening showed little sign of the two main EU leaders bridging their differences.

There were no signs either of movement from the eurozone towards the main demands from Athens – a new deal writing down the Greek debt mountain, as urged last week by the International Monetary Fund.

German government sources said there would be no debt reduction measures offered and that it was up to Greece, which ended negotiations with its creditors 10 days ago and called the referendum, to make the next move.

“In light of the decision by the Greek citizens, the conditions to start negotiations on a new aid programme are not met yet,” said Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert.

Valdis Dombrovskis, the most senior European commission official in charge of the euro, said the referendum result risked leaving everyone a loser. “The no result unfortunately widens the gulf between Greece and other eurozone countries … There is no easy way out of this crisis. Too much time and too many opportunities have been lost.”

A day of frantic politicking in Greece, and internationally, left few clues as to what happens next. Tsipras has persistently surprised and out-manoeuvred his opposite numbers, but without securing any net gains for a country in the throes of financial collapse. Greece’s bank holiday and the rationing of ATM withdrawals to €60 a day was extended until at least Thursday.

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The country’s banks are entirely dependent on the European Central Bank to keep standing and last night the ECB toughened it stance towards Greece’s banks by demanding they put up more collateral in return for the emergency liquidity allowance which has been keeping them afloat. The ECB said its government council is “closely monitoring the situation in financial markets and the potential implications for the monetary policy stance and for the balance of risks to price stability in the euro area”.

Tsipras spent much of the day with other Greek party leaders, resulting in the five-party national consensus behind his negotiating strategy committed to debt restructuring. Tsipras’s leftwing Syriza, and his rightwing nationalist coalition partner, Anel, were joined by centre-left Pasok, liberals To Potami, and centre-right New Democracy.

1% of the population is missing out on amazing health benefits. They aren’t smokers that don’t quit, drinkers that continue to drink or people that refuse to exercise. This 1% of people is not reaping the mental and physical benefits of coitus because they are asexual. For everyone else that enjoys the bone-age, I would happily like to inform you that not only does it feel good but it is great for your body too!

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Get high off of sex

Sex releases a great cocktail of feel good hormones, some of which also work as painkillers and mood enhancers. As a non-medical doctor of nothing, I would recommend that if you have back aches, headaches or knee problems to go ahead and do the nasty as a remedy. Also, you might want to take an actual doctor’s advice at some point.
Stress Reliever

No, I am not Captain Obvious, I’m his side-kick Explicit-man. The combination of intimacy, increased heart-rate and the release of feel-good hormones all contribute to a happier life. And here’s the caveat, a happier life means a less stressed life. So even when you’re not tinkling your winkles (I just made that up, I’m pretty proud of myself) you will still bask in the after-effects.
Healthy Heart

Because it moderates testosterone and estrogen levels sex can actually help protect against heart disease. I’m going to assume that most of my readers aren’t medical students so let me explain. Lower levels of either of those hormones put you at higher risk for heart attack, for both men and women. So have more sex, it’s good for your ticker. I said ‘ticker’ relax you prude! If you are the manipulative type you can even use it next time you’re turned down for sex, just say: ‘do you want me to have a heart attack?’
The more you get, the more you want it

Yup, having more sex will transform you into a sexual werewolf under a full moon of intercourse…OK, bad metaphor, but in actuality the more sex you have, the more that wolf will want (ok sorry that’s the last time I used it).
Look Younger

I know, I know this article is starting to sound like the pitch for a miracle cure-all, but it’s not my fault, this is stuff backed by scientific data and research. Very, very awkward research. A study taking place at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital showed that people that did the deed around four times a week actually looked between 8-12 years younger. This is because testosterone and estrogen help keep things tight and where they’re supposed to be one your body and they are released during the humpty dumpty. ‘You’re looking a bit tired you want to have some sex to perk you up?’ probably won’t get you looking any younger though.
Boosts your immune system better than Orange Juice!

Doing the Bed Ballet can keep you out of bed. A study done in Pennsylvania at Wilkes University showed that people that engaged regularly in relations of the sexy type had higher levels of an antibody that protected against common colds. So to avoid being a sneezy, snotty mess, you need to become a hot and bothered mess. Also again avoid using this: ‘Do you want me to get sick?’ because they will probably assume that you already are.

Shanghai, Jul 3 (PTI) Terrorist incidents such as the 2008 Mumbai attack pose a major threat for China’s navy in guarding the country’s largest city and financial hub Shanghai, a senior PLA Navy officer has said.

“Stability and development is the main momentum for the whole world now. Here also, for me, anti-terrorism is the traditional operation. Shanghai is an economic centre and shipping and trade centre, and I really take anti-terrorist elements as main threats to peace and stability,” Wei Xiandong, Chief of Staff, Shanghai Naval Garrison, said during an interaction with a delegation of Indian journalists here.

When asked does the threat perception come from any country as Shanghai’s sister city Mumbai faced the 2008 attack by Pakistani terrorists who travelled in a boat, he said that Shanghai has not confronted any real terrorist attack or incident and the navy would learn from the experience of other countries to meet the challenge of terrorism and to maintain the security environment.

“We did not confront any real terrorism attack or accidents in Shanghai or any other surrounding coastal cities.

What I can is that we would learn anti-terrorism experience from countries around the world during our job to protect the city,” he said.

According to China’s military strategy, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy will enhance its capabilities for strategic deterrence and counterattack, maritime manoeuvres, joint operations at sea, comprehensive defence and comprehensive support.

The Shanghai Naval Garrison is under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Sea Fleet.

The Eastern Sea Fleet, which was the first naval force formed by the People’s Republic of China in 1949, is a comprehensive force consisting of submarines, naval vessels and different specialised service units which conduct operations and undertake different missions, Wei said.

During President Xi Jinping’s visit to India last year, a bilateral agreement was signed to make the two metropolises – Shanghai and Mumbai – as sister cities and IT and tourism are some of the major areas in which both the cities have potential to jointly cooperate to forge ties between the two Asian neighbours.

Srinagar: In an audacious move, 11 young Kashmiri terrorists donning army fatigues and holding firearms, posted their photographs on Facebook, forcing the security forces to sit up and take notice.

The picture, which remained on ‘Facebook’ for two days, showed 11 terrorists, who recently joined the banned Hizbul Mujahideen terror outfit.

It has disappeared from the social networking site but the move has sent alarm bells ringing in the security establishment in Jammu and Kashmir, including army and central security agencies, since the annual Amarnath pilgrimage began on Wednesday.

The central security agencies have sought details from the social networking site about the Internet Protocol addresses from where the photos were uplinked and then deleted, official sources said.

Those in the photograph include ex-constable of Jammu and Kashmir Police Naseer, who ran away with two AK-47 rifles while on guard duty with Altaf Bukhari, a Minister in the Mufti Sayeed-headed PDP-BJP government, and Burhan Wani, a resident of Tral, who has emerged as the young face of Hizbul Mujahideen in the Valley.

The location where the picture was shot seemed to be somewhere in orchards of Shopian or Pulwama in South Kashmir, which has become a fertile ground for recruitment of youths into various terrorist outfits.

Innumerable images of Burhan and posts extolling him were uploaded on social networking sites like Facebook which the security agencies have got removed but that has not erased his popularity.

Young terrorist leaders like Burhan, with an appeal among the youth of the region, are helping swell the militant ranks, a development security agencies feel, carry grim portents for the Valley.

It is however, still rare for terrorists to upload their photographs on social networking sites lest it should facilitate swift action against them by the law enforcement agencies.
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Jaipur, Jul 3 (PTI) Actress and BJP MP Hema Malini’s driver was today arrested on charges of causing death by negligence after her Mercedes collided with another car, killing a four-year-old girl and injuring the actress along with four others last night.

The 66-year-old actress underwent a surgery for her wounds at Fortis hospital here and was doing fine, doctors attending to her said.

Ramesh Chand Thakur, who was driving Hema’s car when it met with the accident in Dausa, 60 km from here, has been arrested at Kotwali Thana, SHO Dilip Singh told PTI.

An FIR was lodged against the driver, who hails from Vrindavan, under various sections of IPC including 279 (rash driving) and 304 (A) (causing death by negligence not amounting to culpable homicide) in the wee hours, the SHO said.

Hema’s daughter Esha Deol and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje visited the BJP MP at the hospital.

“She had lacerations in para-nasal area and on forehead near the right eyebrow,” P Tamboli, facility director at Fortis said.

“A surgery of debridement and repair of lacerated wounds was carried out post midnight,” he said.

It was a two-hour long process under general anaesthesia.

She is now in post-operative intensive care unit, he said.

“Her clinical parameters are at normal level. She is doing fine and has been started on liquid diet,” Tamboli said.

A team of specialists was attending to her, he said.

Doctors said that Hema also suffered a minor fracture in her nasal bone. Plastic surgery was carried out near the nose and eyebrows and it will take six weeks for the wounds to heal.

Hanuman Mahajan, who lost his four-year-old daughter Sonam and was among the four injured, filed a complaint with the Kotwali police station in Daus against Ramesh, the SHO said.

He said both the vehicles were seized and a probe was on.

There were three persons in Mercedes– BJP MP from Mathura Hema Malini, her PA and driver, while five persons including two children, two women and the complainant Hanuman Mahajan were in the other car, the SHO said.

Sonam (4) succumbed to injuries on way to hospital in Dausa, while four others Hanuman, his wife Shikha (35), Somil (5), and Seema (40), were shifted to Jaipur’s SMS hospital, the SHO said.

Hema was proceeding from Mathura via Bharatpur to Jaipur when the mishap occurred on Agra-Jaipur National Highway-11 near Dausa in Rajasthan around 9 PM yesterday. The other car was going from Jaipur to Lalsot.

Hema was brought to hospital at Jaipur where she underwent CT scan and other tests.

Locals staged a protest after the accident and tried to block the highway, but they were dispersed by police, the SHO said.

New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) Just 4.6 per cent of all rural households in the country pay income tax while such households with salaried income are close to 10 per cent, the first Socio Economic and Caste Census released in eight decades said today.

The percentage of Scheduled Caste (SC) households paying income tax was 3.49 per cent while Scheduled Tribe (ST) tax-paying rural households were mere 3.34 per cent, the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 said.

Releasing the Census, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the data will help in better targeting of government policies.

“The enormity of schemes and reaches that all governments have, this document will form a basis of helping us target groups for support in terms of policy planning,” he told reporters here.

He said the document will reflect the reality of India and be a very important input for all policymakers both for the central and state governments.

This is the first Census released after 1932 and contains various details with regard to specific regions, communities, caste and economic groups and measures the progress of the households in India.

“It is after 7-8 decades that we have this document after 1932 of the caste census. It is also a document which contains various details … who are the ones who have qualitatively moved up in terms of life, which are the ones both in terms of geographical regions, social groupings which in future planning needs to be targeted,” Jaitley said. .

New Delhi: The Kandahar hijack was “goofed up” as no one wanted to take a decision fearing loss of life, according to former RAW chief AS Dulat.

Dulat, who was a member of the Crisis Management Group handling the 1999 hijack of the Indian Airlines IC 814 plane, said they could not decide that the plane should not leave Amritsar.

“Let me say, we goofed up… what was upper most in everybody`s mind was security of the people,” Dulat said on the Kandahar hijack during an interview on a news channel on Thursday.

“So instead of giving out clear instruction to Punjab police, which was incharge on ground there… nobody was willing to say this plane should never be allowed to leave Amritsar. That nobody said, because nobody was willing to take that call. Everybody thought what will happen if people die,” he said.

The former RAW chief also said that initially the terrorists wanted 105 terrorists to be freed.

“It happened on 30th December, finally a call was taken to release three militants… Initially, they wanted 105 then it came down to 35, to 15 and finally our team that had gone to Kandahar managed to bring it down,” he said.

He also said two of the three terrorists were in Jammu and Kashmir and then chief minister Farooq Abdullah was angry about letting them go.

At least 30 persons were killed after a series of landslides, triggered by overnight torrential rain, hit different parts of the Darjeeling hills.

According to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, 22 persons died in popular tourist destination Mirik, while 6 in Kalimpong and 1 each in Sukhia and Gorubathan. “Eight persons are missing after the landslide — 6 in Mirik and 2 in Kalimpong,” Ms Banerjee said.

Following heavy torrential rain, the loose land mass washed away and came down along the steep, rocky walls. In the process the rocky land mass had either swamped the wooden houses on the slope or fell on areas with human habitation. Mirik block and Kalimpong subdivision bore the brunt.

According to locals, a school student was killed in Lava, Kalimpong, while 19 others were killed at various locations in Mirik. Four persons were reportedly killed in Mahendra village. Many also died in Tingling Limbu village in Mirik. According to locals, at least 15 people are reported missing at 8 Mile and 11 Mile areas in Kalimpong, PTI reported.

Death toll to rise

A resident of Darjeeling and Editor of Himalayan Times, Sandip Jain told The Hindu that the death toll is expected to climb sharply.

“So far we are getting reports from towns but the death toll is going to increase as rescue workers reach rural areas,” said Mr Jain. In several parts of the hills electricity and internet and telephone connections are down. “The immediate task should be to restore road connectivity along with electricity and telephone connectivity,” Mr. Jain added. Mr Jain said that the majority of those killed in Mirik are tea garden workers.

Locals recovered the bodies and rescued the injured, put them in hurriedly made bamboo stretchers and carried them to the nearby health centres. “The hospitals and the local health centres are working overtime to accommodate patients who have now started coming from far-flung areas,” said Jorao Tamang of Kalimpong. Acute shortage of medical or para-medical staff and facilities has also been reported by the locals.

Ms. Banerjee said that rescue operations were called off in the evening due to inclement weather and would resume on Thursday morning. Travelling by road and train from Farakka in North Central Bengal, Ms. Banerjee arrived in Darjeeling and has promised Rs7,00,000 for the deceased family. She along with S.S Aluwaliah and Central Minister for the North East MRittiju have visited the affected areas. A lot of relief materials is expected to be distributed in the affected zones.

The leader of Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) Bimal Gurung, who also heads Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), visited the hospital to meet the people injured in the incident.

Nepal quake impact

“Landslides in Darjeeling hills are not uncommon during monsoon but the recent earthquake in Nepal had affected the internal rock structure of the hilly region. The increased magnitude of the landslides and the large region it covered is a reflection of that,” Tuhin Ghosh, a Jadavpur University faculty member and an expert in disaster management, told The Hindu.

In the plains also heavy rainfall resulted in parts of Jalpaiguri district being inundated. The water released from the Teesta barrage added to the woes of people.

The Jalpaiguri district administration has sounded a red alert as the Teesta and Torsa rivers touched danger levels.