CR Patil assumed responsibility as the new head of BJP's Gujarat unit at the gathering office on Tuesday. He is a Lok Sabha MP from Navsari.
Patil has been named instead of Jitu Vaghani, who finished his residency as gathering's Gujarat unit president.
"Congrats to Shri CR Patil on being named as the new leader of the BJP. All the best for Gujarat BJP to push ahead under your authority," tweeted Vaghani.
On Monday, the BJP named CR Patil and Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, both Lok Sabha MPs, as leaders of its Gujarat and Ladakh units."BJP national president Jagat Prakash Nadda has designated CR Patil and Jamyang Tsering Namgyal as leader of Gujarat and Ladakh BJP units individually," said an announcement gave by BJP national general secretary Arun Singh.
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G7
leaders close their summit on Monday with discussion of world
problems including the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest, but
overshadowed by President Donald Trump's trade wars and questions
over the group's unity.
The
summit in Biarritz, a high-end surfers' paradise in southwestern
France, saw a dramatic shift of focus Saturday when Iranian Foreign
Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif flew in to discuss the diplomatic
deadlock on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme.
Zarif's
presence had not been expected and it represented a gamble by French
host Emmanuel Macron who is seeking to soothe spiralling tensions
between Iran and the United States.
The
Iranian top diplomat didn't meet Trump, French diplomats said, but
the presence of the two men in the same place at least sparked hopes
of a detente. Just this July, the US government imposed heavy
sanctions seeking to hamper Zarif's travel, and effectively banning
him from the United States.
"Road
ahead is difficult. But worth trying," the US-educated Zarif
tweeted after meeting Macron and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le
Drian, as well as British and German representatives.
French
officials said Trump, who has imposed crippling sanctions on the
Iranian economy over its nuclear programme, had been aware of the
arrival.
The sources suggested that the secretive visit had also been discussed during an impromptu two-hour lunch between the US president and Macron on Saturday."We work with full transparency with the Americans," one diplomat told reporters on condition of anonymity, despite US media reports that the White House had been taken by surprise...Read More
Changes
in seabird numbers are probably the best way to monitor the quality
of the marine environment. And things are looking bad. In the past 50
years, the world population of marine birds has more than halved.
What’s worse is that few people have noticed.
Puffins,
guillemots, penguins and albatrosses are all in decline. How do we
know this? There are three main ways of checking on numbers. First
and best are long-term population studies: counts of individuals or
pairs at their breeding colonies made in a systematic, rigorous way
each year at established “study plots”. For instance, I have
studied the same population of guillemots on Skomer Island in Wales
since 1972. Consistent, careful methodology is the key here, but it
is labour intensive.
Second,
are one-off counts made every ten years or so over larger areas. This
has occurred in the UK, starting with the census known as “Operation
Seafarer” in 1969-70, and with the most recent survey last year.
This method provides estimates of the size of the overall population
of different species but is less good at detecting small changes in
numbers.
The
third way is by counting the bodies of seabirds washed up on the
shoreline – usually referred to as beached bird surveys. Regular,
systematic counts along set lengths of shoreline provide background
levels of mortality. Occasionally, numbers spike in what in seabird
parlance is known as a “wreck”, as occurred in 2014 when more
than 50,000 seabirds, mainly guillemots and puffins, were washed up
on the west coast of Britain and France.
Seabird
wrecks have been known about for a long time, but they are becoming
more common. Wrecked seabirds are usually emaciated,
having
usually starved to death, indicating a catastrophic failure in their
food supply.
China's
move to ground Boeing Co's 737 MAX jetliners following the deadly
Ethiopian Airlines crash has cast a shadow over the American
planemaker's immediate hopes for a major jet order linked to a
US-China trade deal, industry sources said.
Evidence
of a major potential order for more than 100 jets worth well over $10
billion at list prices had risen in recent weeks as Washington and
Beijing reported some progress in trade talks to resolve a
months-long trade war.
Those
expectations were fanned by signs of pent-up demand stemming not only
from a drop in China's public purchases as the two sides descended
into a tariff war, but also because China placed no private orders
for Boeing aircraft in 2018, according to trade and industry sources
familiar with the matter.
Now,
those sources say it is uncertain how quickly China will be willing
to give the 737 MAX the expected new endorsement after ordering its
own airlines to stop flying the jet - though much could change as
Ethiopian investigators assemble clues to the second deadly crash of
the brand-new model in five months.
On
Wednesday, the United States joined a wave of nations grounding the
737 MAX in the wake of Sunday's crash in Ethiopia, which killed all
157 people onboard. The planes will be grounded for weeks, U.S.
lawmakers said on Thursday.
Analysts
said the crash has added uncertainty for America's largest exporter
over sales to China."It is definitely on their list of concerns
because China is Boeing's biggest single export market," Teal
Group aerospace analyst Richard Aboulafia said...Read
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Businesses
and government agencies in the United States have been targeted in
aggressive attacks by Iranian and Chinese hackers who security
experts believe have been energized by President Trump’s withdrawal
from the Iran nuclear deal last year and his trade conflicts with
China.
Recent
Iranian attacks on American banks, businesses and government agencies
have been more extensive than previously reported. Dozens of
corporations and multiple United States agencies have been hit,
according to seven people briefed on the episodes who were not
authorized to discuss them publicly.
The
attacks, attributed to Iran by analysts at the National Security
Agency and the private security firm FireEye, prompted an emergency
order by the Department of Homeland Security during the government
shutdown last month.
The
Iranian attacks coincide with a renewed Chinese offensive geared
toward stealing trade and military secrets from American military
contractors and technology companies, according to nine intelligence
officials, private security researchers and lawyers familiar with the
attacks who discussed them on the condition of anonymity because of
confidentiality agreements.
A summary
of an intelligence briefing read to The New York Times said that
Boeing, General Electric Aviation and T-Mobile were among the recent
targets of Chinese industrial-espionage efforts. The companies all
declined to discuss the threats, and it is not clear if any of the
hacks were successful...Read
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