China plans to send envoy to N. Korea ON LEAVE A COMMENTEDITUS President Donald Trump has called China’s plans to send an envoy to North Korea a “big move,” AP reported. On Thursday, Trump said on Twitter: “China is sending an Envoy and Delegation to North Korea – A big move, we’ll see what happens!” After his visit to Beijing, China said on Wednesday that it would send a high-level special envoy to North Korea amid an extended chill in relations between the neighboring states. Director of the Communist Party’s International Liaison Department SongTao will travel to Pyongyang on Friday. The stated aim of the visit is to report on the party’s national congress, which was held last month.
Thousands of people in some 170 French towns and cities took to streets on Thursday to denounce a controversial labor reform promoted by French President Emmanuel Macron as a way to reduce unemployment as part of his pro-business agenda. The law, bound to take effect by January 2018, gives more leverage to businesses. It makes it easier for them to negotiate terms of employment, hire and fire staff as well as caps dismissal pay-outs and generally curbs the role of trade unions in small companies. Several major French labor unions called for a public transportation strike ahead of the protest, which led to minor traffic disruptions on Thursday. It was the fourth time the French have held demonstrations against the labor code overhaul since it was signed into law by Macron.
Mayawati accused Congress not materialising alliance
Bahujan Samaj Party, BSP Chief Mayawati has accused Congress for not materialising poll alliance between both the parties in Himachal Pradesh and Gujrat Assembly polls.
In a statement issued at Lucknow after addressing her party leaders she has said that the Congress did not approve sharing 25 seats in Gujarat and 10 in Himachal Pradesh, which it had lost in the previous polls.
She said that senior BSP leader Satish Chandra Mishra had held detailed talks with Congress leader Ahmed Patel on the issue but it did not resulted.
Favouring joining hands with secular parties to check communal parties in Lok Sabha and State Assembly polls, Mayawati has said that it will happen only if her party is given a respectable share of seats.
She has said that contesting in alliance had not benefitted her party in the past.
BSP Chief has sharply criticised the ruling BJP for following unethical tactics and the misuse of official machinery in the urban local bodies elections in the State.
She has alleged the BJP for trying to tarnish the image of opposition leaders instead of working for the people. She has termed BJP’s ‘Sankalp Patra’ or manifesto for the urban local elections as an eyewash.
Media reports from Lucknow that this is the first time that the BSP is contesting the Urban Local Bodies elections on its party symbol. She has also made it clear that any party men entering the fray as independents in on going Local Bodies polls will be expelled.
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