Naresh — Right now, the Republicans

JULY 20, 2016 | EDIT

We’re better than this

Naresh — Right now, the Republicans — at least the ones who decided to go — are gathering in Cleveland for the second night of their convention, so we should take a moment to discuss what that means. Conventions are about political parties getting organized and unified, speaking with one voice about their vision for the country, and broadcasting their message to millions of Americans. They are also a time when parties raise a whole lot of money, and make no mistake — the Republicans are going to try to do everything they can to fundraise off of the big ratings and all the outrageous attacks coming out of the mouths of Trump and his disciples. We can’t let this week be a big win for them — in fact, we need to use it to grow this team and get even stronger. Show the Republicans that their attacks only make us more dedicated to defeating them — chip in now to stand shoulder-with-shoulder with us (and when you do, we’ll send you a free sticker!). With the backing of the Republican Party, Trump’s campaign raised more than $50 million last month. They’ve hired smart finance people to target every potential donor in the party. Republican leaders ranging from Paul Ryan to Ted Cruz are speaking in Cleveland. The party is indisputably coalescing around Trump as the face of their brand and as their chosen leader, and at the convention this week, they’ll ratify that. With all eyes on him and on us, these are the most important two weeks of the general election until November 8th. Trump is ready to fight us at every turn, and he is ready to win. And the only thing standing between him and the White House is this team. Step up now, and let’s say it loud and clear to America: We’re better than Trump. We are stronger than him and all of his hate. And we will never let him win: Thanks — now let’s get to work, Robby Robby Mook Campaign Manager Hillary for America Hillary needs you now more than ever — chip in $1 and be one of the more than 1.5 million people standing with her:

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PHAR and AirAsia launch ASEAN’s largest publishe

JULY 20, 2016 | EDIT

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PHAR and AirAsia launch ASEAN’s largest publisher-side trading desk Kuala Lumpur, 20 July 2016 – PHAR, an international media and marketing agency with specialist expertise in Transport & Infrastructure, Sport & Entertainment and Digital Media, has launched Southeast Asia’s largest publisher-side trading desk in collaboration with AirAsia. The digital performance platform, called ‘PHAR Focus’, has been developed to serve the objectives of traveller related digital campaigns. It enables advertisers to reach travellers across ASEAN with relevant and timely messaging providing both better results for advertisers, and more engaging and useful content for the consumer. The audience data captured runs into the billions of data events every month, and relates to travel behaviour, purchase intent, demographic and lifestyle indicators. The data segments enable targeted ads on AirAsia.com and across 3rd party sites and exchanges. Ads can be served across Asia, with a focus on ASEAN due to the high volume of passengers in the region. Key to the decision to launch an in-house publisher trading desk was the control and safety it brings to site and app behaviour data. It also extends the scale of inventory available to small but valuable segments of travellers. All audience data collected is not personally identifiable. The new trading desk is operated by PHAR’s team of traders and digital operations staff, who are specialised in travel related programmatic campaign optimisation. Working with major advertisers in the region, the platform has already delivered market leading results since its soft launch in April 2016. Marcus Treacy, Head of Digital at PHAR said, “We are very excited to roll out the AirAsia travel intent data across our client portfolio in Asia. Unlocking the value of the data through managed campaigns by our expert traders will transform campaign performance and reduce wastage significantly. Prem Bhatia, Managing Director Asia at PHAR added, “As programmatic advertising becomes a top focus for advertisers throughout the region, the importance of quality data at scale is becoming more and more apparent. We are excited to be able to bring an unrivalled data offering that is already delivering market leading performance for our key clients across the tourism, banking and telco sectors in particular.” Siegtraund Teh, AirAsia Group Chief Commercial Officer said, “We are excited to partner with PHAR to not only create more opportunities to work with our advertising partners, but also to bring more relevant, personalised and interesting messaging to our guests. This collaboration with PHAR will enable us to capitalise on the information we have to better understand our guests and enhance engagement.”

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The Enkaysagar Holdings PLtd Daily

JULY 20, 2016 | EDIT

The Enkaysagar Holdings PLtd Daily Published by Naresh Kumar Sagar 19 July 2016 Art & Entertainment Sports BusinessWorld Education Leisure #actualidad #en Today’s headline Quarter Rock Press – El día de The Beatles www­.quarterrockpress­.com–   KAREN SALGADO (Twitter: @paorix)   Desde hace ocho años se celebra el Beatles Day porque, sí, hay una día para celebrar a la legendaria banda británica. Esta celebración recuerda su triunfal regr… 12 contributors – featured today: Read paper →

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Taiwan Excellence Gaming Cup

JULY 20, 2016 | EDIT

India’s most awaited gaming tournament, the Taiwan Excellence Gaming Cup, sets the stage for a thrilling clash of DOTA 2 titans

July 19th, New Delhi: After two extremely successful editions in the last two years, Taiwan Excellence in India announced the third stint of their inimitable gaming tournament – the Taiwan Excellence Gaming Cup (TEGC). The worldwide championship that has stupendous fan-following across the world is back this year on a much larger stage thanks to the overwhelming response for its previous editions.

This year, four more cities have been added to its itinerary and the TEGC will now be hosting elimination rounds in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata, in addition to Mumbai and Delhi. The tournament will challenge DOTA 2 gamers to battle for the revered cup and winners will take home a cumulative cash prize of Rs 5 lakh. The tournament is divided into two rounds for each city – Eliminations and a Grand Finale – with the former being conducted from select offline venues as per a pre-set schedule.

The Taiwan Excellence Gaming Cup is a venture by the Taiwan Excellence — an initiative of Taiwan’s Bureau of Foreign Trade, MOEA and executed by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA). It represents the innovative and technological image of Taiwan’s most competitive industries and is a symbol of reliability, innovation and tremendous value.

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Geographies of care and intimacy :

JULY 20, 2016 | EDIT

Dear All,

As part of our Urban Workshop Series, the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), Delhi, are delighted to invite you to a Workshop onGeographies of care and intimacy : early insights from oral histories of informal sector migrants in Delhi and Hyderabad by Vinay Gidwani (University of Minnesota) & Priti Ramamurthy (University of Washington), Sunil Kumar & Lokesh (labor activists and researchers).

Date:               Tuesday, 26th July 2016

Time:               3.45 p.m.

Venue:             Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research, Dharma Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 110 021

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A key insight of recent social science scholarship on India is the paucity of reliable formal sector employment, compelling a very large portion of India’s workforce to find uncertain livelihoods in an assortment of rural and urban informal sector work, the latter consisting of construction, street vending, petty retail, transportation, waste picking, sex work, and domestic service labor to name but a few venues. This vast population has been variously characterized as a “wasteland of the dispossessed” (Sanyal 2007), a state of “wageless life” (Denning 2010), a “surplus population” (Smith 2011), a “precariat” (Standing 2011), and a “floating reserve army” (Breman 2013). Possibly because the employment challenge that confronts countries like India with its vast youth demographic is so humbling, the existing scholarship in fields like labor studies, urban geography, rural sociology, and feminist studies has been resolutely economistic. With few exceptions, it has had little to say on the experiences, life-making activities and desires of the men and women, who toil in India’s cities even as they remain enmeshed with ongoing lives in their villages. While there is every reason to be perturbed by the looming employment challenge that confronts nations like India what is conspicuously scarce in this litany of gloom are humanizing accounts that plumb how denizens of the informal economy experience and narrate their life-worlds: their longings, desires, and indignities; their practices of care and violence; their loneliness, friendships, and found intimacies; and their conflicted attitudes to love, marriage, kinship, sex, and patriarchy.

In this seminar, we will present preliminary insights on the intimate lives of first- and second- generation rural-to-urban migrants in Delhi and Hyderabad, based on the first phase of ongoing oral historical research. Our research strives to bring humanistic insights to existing political economy scholarship on migration and employment; while it is not policy-oriented, we hope it can indirectly inform policy initiatives on informal sector work and urbanization.

* This presentation is based on our ongoing project, “The City and Country: Towards a Poetics of Informal Economies in Contemporary India,” funded by an American Council for Learned Societies Research Collaboration Fellowship, 2015-17, and an American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellowship, 2016. We thank Centre for Policy Research and Hyderabad Urban Lab for their advice and logistical support, which have been vital in shaping this project.

Vinay Gidwani studies the entanglements of labor and ecology in agrarian and urban settings, and capitalist transformations of these. He is particularly interested in the cultural politics and geographies of work. Gidwani is presently Professor of Geography and Global Studies at University of Minnesota. His most recent book is Capital, Interrupted: Agrarian Development and the Politics of Work in India (Minnesota, 2008).

Priti Ramamurthy is Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research is on feminist analyses of commodity chains, agrarian change in India; social reproduction and agricultural biotechnologies; gender, modernity and commodity cultures, and the life-worlds of denizens of informal economies. Her interdisciplinary publications appear in the journals World Development, Cultural Anthropology, Feminist Studies, SIGNS, and Environment and Planning A. She is a co-editor and co-author of The Modern Girl Around the World: Modernity, Consumption, Globalization (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008).

Sunil Kumar is a Delhi-based social-political activist, and an independent writer and researcher.

Lokesh, a researcher, was awarded an M.Phil. for her thesis, Global Mobility and Emergence of New Relations: Social Characteristics of Paid Domestic Workers, from the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi. She has contributed a chapter, ‘Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers’ Strike in Pune, Maharashtra’, inTowards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers, Dirk Hoerder, Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk and Silk Neunsinger (editors). She has worked in a variety of research positions, and is actively engaged with issues of gender, labour, urbanism, violence and sexuality. Lokesh is associated with Stree Mukti Sangathan, a women’s organization, and the New Socialist Initiative.

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This is the seventy eight in a series of Urban Workshops planned by the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi and Centre for Policy Research (CPR). These workshops seek to provoke public discussion on issues relating to the development of the city and try to address all its facets including its administration, culture, economy, society and politics. For further information, please contact: Christine Ithurbide at christine@csh-delhi.com, Partha Mukhopadhyay at partha@cprindia.org or Marie-Hélène Zerah at marie-helene.zerah@ird.fr

We look forward to welcoming you to CPR for what promises to be an interesting discussion. Please feel free to share this invitation with friends and colleagues who may be interested

Best regards,

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JULY 20, 2016 | EDIT

ASEAN

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Today our Buddhist friends observe the Buddhist Lent Day. Taking place during the wet season, it lasts for three lunar months, usually from July to October. Today is also a public holiday in Thailand.

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