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ژوئن 15, 2022

Explained: Why is NordVPN removing its India servers?

NordVPN has become the third virtual private network (VPN) provider to remove its servers from India in response to the country’s cybersecurity directive. It follows the likes of ExpressVPN and Surfshark who have already pulled their servers from the country in the aftermath of the rules. The norms, released by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) in April, require VPNs to record and keep users’ logs for 180 days as well as store a range of information for five years.
“In the past, similar regulations were typically introduced by authoritarian governments in order to gain more control over their citizens,” NordVPN said in a statement. “If democracies follow the same path, it has the potential to affect people’s privacy as well as their freedom of speech. One way or another, this law will likely have a negative impact on people’s privacy and digital security.”

Why has NordVPN removed its India servers?

The Panama-based company said that due to the logging and storage requirement of the rules, “a VPN company with servers in India may no longer be able to guarantee privacy for its users”.
The firm is “concerned” about the possible effect this regulation may have on people’s data. “From what it seems, the amount of stored private information will be drastically increased throughout hundreds or maybe thousands of different companies. It is hard to imagine that all, especially small and medium enterprises, will have the proper means to ensure the security of such data,” it said.Best of Express PremiumPremiumPremiumPremiumPremium
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NordVPN will remove its servers on June 26, a day before the cybersecurity norms come into effect.
NordVPN is among the largest VPN providers globally, with more than 14 million users globally and more than 5,500 servers in 60 countries.

“As one of the industry leaders, we adhere to strict privacy policies, which means we don’t collect or store customer data. No-logging features are embedded in our server architecture and are at the core of our principles and standards. Moreover, we are committed to protecting the privacy of our customers. Therefore, we are no longer able to keep servers in India,” NordVPN said.
How have other VPN providers reacted?

Last week, Surfshark pulled its India servers, saying that the cybersecurity rules “go against the core ethos” of the company’s “no logs” policy.
Before that, ExpressVPN had removed its servers from the country, saying it “refuses to participate in the Indian government’s attempts to limit internet freedom”.
What are India’s rules related to VPNs?

The guidelines, released by CERT-In on April 28, asked VPN service providers along with data centres and cloud service providers to store information such as names, e-mail IDs, contact numbers, and IP addresses. among other things, of their customers for a period of five years.
While the government has said it wants these details to fight cybercrime, the industry argues that privacy is the main selling point of VPN services, and such a move would be in breach of the privacy cover provided by VPN platforms.
However, despite these concerns, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrashekhar had earlier said that VPNs who would not adhere to the rules are free to exit the country.
The rules will come into effect on June 27.
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What happens to Indian users of NordVPN?

The firm said that its Indian servers will remain until June 26, and in order to ensure that its users are aware of this decision, NordVPN will send notifications with the full information via its app starting 20 June.
While the firm is yet to announce how the move will impact its India users, other VPNs who have removed their servers said that they will service users in the country via virtual servers located in other countries.

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ژوئن 13, 2022

Eyeing Asian Cup berth, India face Hong Kong in battle for top spot

A Sunil Chhetri-inspired India would look to end the final leg of the Asian Cup Qualifiers on a high when they face Hong Kong in a battle for the group D top spot on Tuesday.
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With two wins each, both teams have six points but Jon Anderson’s side are ahead of the hosts on goal difference, and the match would determine the direct qualifiers for next year’s 24-team continental finals.
Only the winners of the six qualifying groups are sure to advance to the tournament, where they will be joined by the five runners-up with the best records in the competition.Best of Express PremiumPremiumPremiumPremiumPremium
First place in the group would take the Blue Tigers into the finals for an unprecedented second successive time and fifth overall.
Hong Kong, on the other hand, are eyeing their first Asia Cup qualification since 1968.
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Ranking wise India (106) may be ahead of Hong Kong (147) but the latter have displayed the best attacking and defensive play among the four group D teams so far in the competition.
While Hong Kong have easily outclassed their respective opponents, India have stuttered along.
After a patchy show against Cambodia, where Chhettri scored a double, it took an injury-time winner by Abdul Sahal Samad to seal three points.

After Chhetri had seen his 86th minute free-kick cancelled out two minutes later by Zubayr Amiri’s header, Sahal sealed three points.
Notably, even if any of the two teams go on to lose or draw, they can still qualify as one of the five best second-placed teams.

A second-place finish would leave them waiting for results in other groups to determine whether they would take one of the five best runners-up spots.
As for the team news, the Blue Tigers have been on the job with Chhetri leading from the front with three goals from the first two matches.
With 83 International goals in his pocket, Chhetri would look to close in on Argentine maestro Lionel Messi (86).

The Kerala Blasters striker’s stoppage-time winner would mean that the Indian coach Igor Stimac would have a “happy headache” in picking the starting XI.
It remains to be seen whether the Croatian World Cup semifinalist brings him in the starting line-up. Another player who has impressed the most in the first two matches is Aashique Kurunnian who has been brilliant with his speed and control.
At a time when Manvir Singh has failed to make an impact, Aashique has shone bright and played a key role in their turnaround against Afghanistan.
Manvir Singh has failed to make an impact. (Twitter/Indian Super League)
“The three points that we got against Cambodia will mean nothing if we don’t get three points against Hong Kong,” Stimac said on the eve of the match.
“We are at the point zero at the moment. We played well, that’s why we made it look easy. Of course, Hong Kong will be a different challenge.” India’s defence would also brace for a big test against Hong Kong who have scored five goals in the first two matches.
For Hong Kong, Matt Orr has been in rich form as the 25-year-old striker has scored a goal each in both the matches, and he would be a threat to the Indian defence with his aerial control and finishes.

“Of course we have to change our tactics against India. India have a strong team but for us the situation is really positive and we’re motivated to win,” Hong Kong coach Anderson said. Kickoff: 8.30pm IST.

ژوئن 11, 2022

Scoring points | The Indian Express

The Class 10 examination results have triggered a war of words in Andhra Pradesh (AP) with the Opposition blaming the government for over two lakh students failing in the boards: The pass percentage of 67.26, coming in the wake of the pandemic, is the lowest in the last 20 years. On Thursday, TDP general secretary and son of former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu, Nara Lokesh Naidu, upped the ante and reached out to students and parents over Zoom, but was interrupted by ruling party (YSRCP) leaders, who accused the TDP of politicising school examinations and students. The TDP shut out the YSRCP voices and continued with the video conference. But the TDP initiative as well as the YSRCP challenge mark a good moment in public political discussion, in which issues such as school education usually take a backseat, if they figure at all. School education is far too serious a matter to be left to the bureaucracy; it ought to feature more in the agenda of political parties.
That the YSRCP, which has been sweeping elections at all levels in AP since the state was bifurcated in 2014, felt it necessary to intervene in the discussion over exam results, however, could also point to the traction the issue of education has traditionally had in Andhra society. In fact, education has been something of a possible gamechanger in elections in some of the southern states for some years now. If the socialisation of educational institutions polarised Kerala in the late 1950s, leading to a mass movement and the undemocratic dismissal of the CPI government in 1959, the AIADMK under MGR enhanced its pro-poor image and cemented its electoral appeal by introducing a mid-day meal scheme in Tamil Nadu in the early 1980s. In recent months, the DMK in Tamil Nadu has found in NEET, the entrance exam for medical and pre-medical courses, an issue to corner both the BJP and AIADMK. Elsewhere, Nitish Kumar in Bihar and Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi have cultivated constituencies by focusing on school students and their parents. Free schooling and bicycles for girl students have allowed Nitish Kumar to carve a niche in a polity defined primarily by caste whereas Kejriwal has made the work done by his government in schools a calling card as AAP seeks to expand beyond Delhi.
Hopefully, other political parties will take a cue from TDP, YSRCP, DMK, JD(U), AAP, and bring education to the forefront of political debate. It would be a necessary departure from the polarising talk on identity and religion that mostly dominates it.
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ژوئن 9, 2022

Why more European firms are choosing Vietnam over China

Vietnam was one of the few Asian countries that did not experience an economic contraction during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and 2021. This year, Vietnam’s GDP is expected to grow by around 5.5%, according to the World Bank.
Vietnam’s economic performance during and after the pandemic has captured the attention of some major European firms.
German automotive supplier Brose, which has 11 factories in China, is currently deciding between Thailand and Vietnam for a new production location.
In December, Denmark’s Lego announced it will build a $1 billion (€935 million) factory near the southern business hub Ho Chi Minh City, one of the largest European investment projects in Vietnam to date.Best of Express PremiumPremiumPremiumPremiumPremium
“It currently looks as if, in particular, medium-sized companies are increasingly striving to enter the Vietnam market or are putting their activities out of China on a broader basis,” said Daniel Müller, manager at the German Asia-Pacific Business Association.
Why are companies leaving?
European firms are looking for alternatives to China for several reasons. In recent years, Chinese wages have risen, making China less attractive to low-cost manufacturers.
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Average annual wages in China rose from around €5,120 ($5,400) in 2010 to €13,670 in 2020, according to Moody’s Analytics.
On the geopolitical front, China’s relationship with European governments deteriorated in 2021 when the EU imposed sanctions against China for its treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region.
Beijing then issued its own sanctions on EU officials and a previously agreed investment pact was put on ice.
In 2022, Beijing’s ongoing “zero-COVID” policy has thrown global supply chains into disarray as production sits still in locked-down cities. This has also shaken the confidence of EU firms in China as a reliable production site.
Shanghai has only just recently re-opened after months of intense lockdowns, while parts of Beijing, the capital, have also been closed for months.
All of this has dented the economy and warnings have been raised that China could fall well below its GDP growth targets this year.
In the first three months of 2022, China”s GDP grew by 4.8%, below the official annual target of 5.5%, according to the World Bank.
“Even prior to the pandemic, we have already seen businesses, particularly those in the labor-intensive manufacturing segment, starting to relocate out of mainland China to other lower-cost countries in the region, including Vietnam,” Raphael Mok, head of Asia Country Risk at Fitch Solutions, told DW.
At the same time, Vietnam has become a more attractive destination for investors, he added.
Salaries are lower than in China and Vietnam has a fast-growing middle class. The Communist government is also investing heavily in infrastructure.
The EU and Vietnam ratified a free-trade agreement in 2020, which included an investment pact, the EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA). Bilateral trade rose to €49 billion in 2021, up from €20.8 billion in 2012, the year talks began over the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA).
A report by Germany Trade & Invest, a research and advisory platform, points out that these pacts also give European firms easier access to public procurements in Vietnam. This includes public-private partnership projects, a favorite of the local authorities. Under the EVIPA, maximum foreign shareholding in commercial banks increased from 30% to 49%.
Why China is still essential
“Whether Vietnam will ‘replace’ China as a manufacturing option remains to be seen,” said Matthijs van den Broek, of the Dutch Business Association Vietnam (DBAV). “But as an extended or additional investment location, in addition to China, or as part of a wider China-plus-One strategy, is definitely gaining ground,” he told DW.
“China is too big and too advanced to not make any part of an Asian strategy,” van den Broek added. “Vietnam is not yet on par with China as far as education level, skilled labor and infrastructure, and logistics are concerned.”
Muller, of the German Asia-Pacific Business Association, noted that European decoupling from China depends largely on where the business is located.
German companies, for instance, are much more reliant on the Chinese market than most other European countries. German exports to China were worth €99 billion in 2020, compared with €19 billion for France, according to OEC data.
“It is still unclear whether German companies, especially the large corporations, will significantly reduce their activities in China,” Muller said. “This would be a prerequisite for countries like Vietnam to be able to count on large-scale new investments.”
It will also be dependent on the types of industry in question. In the long-term, businesses in higher value-add manufacturing, such as advanced engineering and smart appliances, will still consider mainland China as a production hub due to its supply chains, said Mok.
But lower-margin manufacturing, which requires a low-cost and less sophisticated ecosystem, “will likely continue to shift out of the country to keep production costs low,” he added.
According to Muller, if there is a further intensification of geopolitical tensions in the future, “companies will not be able to avoid looking for alternatives to China. Vietnam, he added, “will play a key role in this.”

ژوئن 8, 2022

‘Samrat Prithviraj’ to be tax-free in state: Govt

The Gujarat government on Tuesday announced its decision to make Bollywood film “Samrat Prithviraj” tax-free in the state.
In a tweet, the Chief Minister’s Office stated that CM Bhupendra Patel took the decision for the Akshay Kumar starrer that highlights the saga of courageous king Prithviraj Chauhan who took on invading Muhammad Ghori. It added that the film relives the historic past of the country.
Gujarat joins the list of states like Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh that have made the movie tax-free. Recently, the government had made “Kashmir Files” movie tax-free in Gujarat.
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