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Proposed Immigration Rules and the Safety Net
By Tara Watson·April 3, 2018
Current law prevents people who are deemed likely to become a "public charge," that is, dependent upon government support, from becoming legal permanent residents of the United States. The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly proposing to expand the definition and determination of who is a public charge in a way that would make requirements for permanent legal immigration to the United States more stringent, according to a draft proposal, released by the Washington Post on March 28, 2018. As drafted, the proposal changes current law to go beyond the receipt of public cash assistance and consider someone as a public charge if he or she has participated in non-cash programs like government-subsidized health insurance and food assistance. The proposal also changes the law by emphasizing the consideration of factors that may make someone likely to use such services in the future, rather than relying mainly on the person's history. Furthermore, it allows legal non-citizens to be considered a public charge if their dependents use benefits, and this includes many of the 11.5 million U.S.-citizen children in "mixed-citizenship" households (that is, households that include at least one citizen and at least one non-citizen).
The proposed changes could have important adverse impacts on the lives of legal immigrants and the many U.S. citizens who are part of their families.
The proposed change in rules is potentially relevant for about 14 percent of the United States population, including 23 million non-citizens living in the United States and another 21 million citizens who live in mixed-citizenship households. The proposed rule most directly applies to the roughly 12 million non-citizens legally living in the United States. Another 21 million citizens live in households with at least one non-citizen, including 11.5 million citizen children.
The consideration of non-cash benefits for determination of whether someone is a "public charge" would change the approach of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) that has been in place for almost two decades. In 1999, the INS clarified that it would not consider receipt of Medicaid, Food Stamps, or other non-cash benefits as part of a public charge determination. The agency at that time argued that use of these non-cash programs did not constitute dependency on the government in the sense meant by "public charge", and noted that, in many cases, these programs enabled self-sufficiency. Because of this, currently a non-citizen is determined a public charge if they have become, or are likely to become, primarily dependent on the government for subsistence as demonstrated by either the receipt of public cash assistance or institutionalization for long-term care at government expense. By contrast, the leaked document reflects a shift whereby the use of any means-tested government benefit within the past three years would be a heavily weighted determinant of whether a legal non-citizen is considered at risk of being a "public charge." Non-cash benefits such as food assistance (SNAP), Medicaid, and Obamacare health insurance subsidies would be newly considered for determination of permanent residency. Receipt of the Earned Income Tax Credit and requests for fee waivers for immigration processing would also be considered, as would any means-tested support from state or local governments.
Non-cash benefits are much more commonly accessed than cash benefits by citizens and non-citizens alike. The increased emphasis on work and diversion away from cash benefits under welfare reform has been accompanied by growth in non-cash assistance programs to help low-income people meet basic needs. Consequently, the cash-based safety net has weakened since 1996, while non-cash programs such as food assistance and public health insurance have been expanded. My analysis of data from the March 2017 Current Population Survey suggests that, among non-citizens, 2 percent live in a household that receives cash welfare from TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), whereas 20 percent are enrolled in Medicaid and 15 percent live in a household that receives SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program).
Low-income citizens have substantially higher participation rates in the safety net than low-income non-citizens. For example, the participation among poor citizens versus poor non-citizens in TANF is 7 percent versus 5 percent, for Medicaid is 52 percent versus 32 percent, and for SNAP is 48 percent versus 36 percent. The lower rates of safety net use among poor non-citizens are not surprising given that many non-citizens are ineligible for these programs because they are undocumented or have arrived within the past five years (newly admitted permanent residents are barred from receiving federally-funded safety net benefits for five years). Citizens have slightly lower rates of safety net participation overall, largely because their incomes tend to be higher than those of non-citizens.
The proposed rule allows for a determination that immigrants are public charges if their dependents participate in non-cash assistance programs, even if the dependents are U.S. citizens. Roughly one in six children who are a U.S. citizen live in a mixed-citizenship household (i.e., a household with at least one citizen and one non-citizen). The most significant group of children to be affected by the proposed rule change would be children who are citizens whose parents are legal non-citizens. A significant fraction of children in mixed citizenship households receive non-cash safety net benefits (see figure). For example, 49 percent of citizen children in mixed citizenship households and 35 percent of non-citizen children in such households use Medicaid for health insurance, compared to 32 percent of citizen children in all-citizen households. For SNAP, 25 percent of citizen children and 23 percent of non-citizen children in mixed-citizenship households reside in households that participate, compared to 18 percent of children in all-citizen households. (Children who are not citizens and live in households without any citizens are less than 2 percent of the total child population in the U.S., and are less likely than other children to participate in safety net programs.)
The proposed rule's emphasis on prospective determination means that certain categories of immigrants are particularly likely to be deemed at risk of becoming a public charge, even if they have never used safety net benefits. Though existing guidance considers the public charge determination to be a prospective one, the new draft rule highlights specific factors separate from benefit use that may constitute a higher risk of being a public charge in the future. These include the presence of dependents, presence of medical conditions that could limit work or require future reliance on subsidized health insurance, request of a fee waiver for immigration processing, credit score, education, and English proficiency, among others.
The new rule would likely cause lower participation in public health insurance by immigrants. This conjecture is consistent with the experience after the 1996 welfare reform that reiterated a long-standing (but rarely used) "public charge" doctrine that allowed the government to consider the receipt of benefits in determining admissibility and adjustments to status. The 1996 reform also subjected new legal immigrants to a five-year waiting period before receiving federally-funded benefits. Participation in the Medicaid (public health insurance) program fell substantially following the law. In part this was due to a contemporaneous change in enforcement activity, discouraging undocumented immigrants from enrolling their citizen children. But it was also due to some legal non-citizens becoming fearful that enrolling themselves or their children in public health insurance could jeopardize their pathway to citizenship. Given the expanded reach of government in the health care system with Obamacare health insurance subsidies and an expanded Medicaid program, the draft rule could generate more pronounced chilling effects on health insurance than the 1996 episode.
The draft of the administration's proposal, if enacted, would represent a substantial change in the way non-citizens legally living in the United States are considered for permanent residency under the "public charge" doctrine. Legal immigrants who participated in food assistance programs or whose children received public health insurance, for example, could face a roadblock to acquiring permanent legal resident status. The rule likely would have a chilling effect on use of public programs by non-citizens and their citizen children. A substantial fraction of the 33 percent of non-citizen children and 49 percent of citizen children in mixed-citizenship households who currently rely on the Medicaid program for health insurance are likely to go uninsured if the draft proposed rule takes effect.
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Ref Link: SoapWithoutKSoap
You can use KSoap Library to create complex Soap Data Request.
I hope this can help you.
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In Browser, method name and passing parameter(s) information will be like something as attached image.

Thanks.

A: I'm using C# web services to autenticate users, send report data and get app updates.
You can get some exmaples in the web (C#):
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The Blessed Marie of Oignies
Marie of Oignies (1 May 1240)
First, a word about why Marie of Oignies is the topic of today's post. Most of what we know about this remarkable religious woman comes to us from a biography written by the theologian Jacques de Vitry--whose death occurred on 1 May 1240. And so today, on the anniversary of Jacques de Vitry's death, I'm writing about Marie of Oignies.
To write about Marie of Oignies on the anniversary of the death of Jacque de Vitry is fitting, I think, because despite her undoubted influence on many religious women who followed, we don't have any information about Marie's family, or about her life, or about her religious experiences, except the details and interpretations that come to us from him. And his biographical work, Vita Mariae Oignacensis, was not written for the many laywomen who found inspiration in her life or who would seek to follow her model. In fact, I've preserved its Latin title here because the work was directed to (and written for) educated religious men so that they could use the details of her life in their own teaching.
A bust representing Marie of Oignies
According to Jacques de Vitry's account of her life, Marie was probably born in 1176 or 1177, the daughter of a wealthy family from Nivelles, Belgium. Although she rejected the luxuries of life that her parents provided her and desired a life of poverty, expressing her wish to become a nun, her parents arranged for her marriage when she was fourteen (if she was born in 1176/77, that would date her marriage to 1190/91).
But, at least according to Jacques de Vitry's version of Marie's life, the new bride managed to persuade her new husband to take vows of chastity and poverty with her, and the two moved to a leper hospital in Willambroux, where they devoted themselves to lives of service, used their own money to support the work of the hospital, and earned the criticism of their respective families.
By 1207, Marie de Oignies left her husband and Willambroux, with his approval and consent, for a cell at the Augustinian priory of St. Nicholas at Oignies. There, although not having taken the vows of a nun belonging to any religious order, she lived a life of prayer and poverty. Nevertheless, despite her withdrawal from the world, she earned a reputation in the world for her powers of healing and her extraordinary visionary experiences.
Perhaps drawn by Marie's reputation, Jacques de Vitry became a canon at the priory in 1209. He was ordained in 1210, probably as a result of Marie's influence, and, more important, became her confessor. He remained with her until her death in 1213, and he composed his Life of Marie Oignies two years later.
Jacques de Vitry's account of Marie of Oignies was part of a larger project, his Liber de mulieribus Leodiensibus, (Book of the Women of Liège), which Annette Esser describes as "a propaganda effort to gain official ecclesiastical recognition for . . . the Flemish Beguines."*
Marie's religious dedication, as described by Jacques de Vitry, is witnessed by two key elements: her extreme asceticism (her early death is almost certainly due to her extended periods of self-starvation) and her extraordinary visionary experiences.
In her discussion of Marie of Oignies, Esser notes four key visions: "the vision of fiery excess," which occurs right after Marie's marriage; her vision of the life of Christ, which is accompanied by what Jacques de Vitry describes as a "flood of tears"; her "ecstatic vision" of "self-stigmatization," a vision that results in her using a knife to cut out a chunk of her own flesh; and her "vision of hands from purgatory," the result of fasting and endless work, in which she sees and experiences the suffering of souls in Purgatory.
Marie's life--and, in particular, her visionary experiences and her extremes of self-deprivation--would offer inspiration to and become a model for many women who did not have the social status, wealth, or education that would allow them to take up a religious life in a convent.
The interior courtyard of the abbey of St. Nicholas, Oignies,
where relics of Marie of Oignies are preserved
Marie of Oignies died in 1213 and was beatified by the Catholic Church, her feast day celebrated on 23 June. Some sources list 23 June as the day of her death, but I can find no documentation for that information.
There are several affordable paperback editions of the Life of Marie de Oignies. For an introduction to a range of medieval women mystics, I recommend Elizabeth Petroff's Medieval Women's Visionary Literature and her Body and Soul: Essays on Medieval Women and Mysticism. Annette Esser's essay on Marie of Oignies is in Women Christian Mystics Speak to Our Time, ed. David Brian Perrin.
In her extreme fasting, Marie of Oignies precedes Catherine of Siena, whom we discussed two days ago, by more than a century. Two works I suggested there, Rudolph Bell's 1985 Holy Anorexia and Caroline Walker Bynum's 1988 classic, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, are equally relevant here.
*Although there is a great deal of uncertainty about the origins of the word beguine, this lay religious movement became was important through the sixteenth century, especially, though not exclusively, in northern Europe. Beguines were not members of an established religious order (like the Benedictines or Franciscans, for example), but, following the model of a woman like Marie of Oignies, they lived individual or communal lives in imitation of Christ's, lives of poverty, chastity, self-denial, and service to the poor and the ill. (It is sometimes said the Marie of Oignies is the first beguine. In her 1986 women's history classic, A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval Life, Margaret Wade Labarge calls Marie of Oignies "the mother of the beguine movement." )
Posted by Sharon L. Jansen at 12:00 AM
Labels: Beguines, Catherine of Siena, female mystics, Marie of Oignies, women and religion
this is very interesting and if she is beatified by the Catholic church, that is concerning because she self-harmed and if her early death was probably from starving i have always been taught that it is wrong to do such a thing if it hurts yourself or others to the point of dying. I going to do some more research on her she sounds very interesting. If i find anything out about her that is not in your article that is important i will leave another comment
Sharon L. Jansen August 23, 2022 at 5:01 PM
Thank you so much for reading and taking time to comment! The practices of asceticism--including food refusal--have a long history in Christianity. The two books I suggest in the post--by Rudolph Bell and Caroline Walker Bynum--are the place to start for a history of extreme fasting.

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This is not the first time that we are acquainted with Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma's fondness for a canine. A few months back we saw another adorable photo of the couple where the two were enjoying the company of a puppy.
Anushka Sharma:Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli have made a new friend in a dog in England. The latest Instagram post of he cricketer features him, his wife and a "beautiful boy". The caption of the cute click reads, "Met this beautiful boy who was patient enough to take a picture with us " Going by the picture, it seems Virushka (as Virat and Anushka's fans love to address them) were out for grocery shopping where they met their furry friend.
Also, the couple has contributed to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund for Kerala flood victims. They have also done their bit to support the animals in crisis. "Anushka and Virat are sending a truck loaded with food and medicines and support systems for the animals in need," a source in the know of the development told IANS.
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Virat is in England with the Indian cricket team to play a five-test series. Anushka has accompanied the Indian skipper on his tour to spend some time with him. The actor has often been spotted in the stands cheering for her darling husband as he played against England.
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Modulating HIV-1 replication by RNA interference directed against human transcription elongation factor SPT5
Yueh Hsin Ping, Chia Ying Chu, Hong Cao, Jean Marc Jacque, Mario Stevenson, Tariq M. Rana
Background: Several cellular positive and negative elongation factors are involved in regulating RNA polymerase II processivity during transcription elongation in human cells. In recruiting several of these regulatory factors to the 5′ long terminal repeat (LTR) promoter during transcription elongation, HIV-1 modulates replication of its genome in a process mediated by the virus-encoded transactivator Tat. One particular cellular regulatory factor, DSIF subunit human SPT5 (hSpt5), has been implicated in both positively and negatively regulating transcriptional elongation but its role in Tat transactivation in vivo and in HIV-1 replication has not been completely elucidated. Results: To understand the in vivo function of hSpt5 and define its role in Tat transactivation and HIV-1 replication, we used RNA interference (RNAi) to specifically knockdown hSpt5 expression by degrading hSpt5 mRNA. Short-interfering RNA (siRNA) designed to target hSpt5 for RNAi successfully resulted in knockdown of both hSpt5 mRNA and protein levels, and did not significantly affect cell viability. In contrast to hSpt5 knockdown, siRNA-mediated silencing of human mRNA capping enzyme, a functionally important hSpt5-interacting cellular protein, was lethal and showed a significant increase in cell death over the course of the knockdown experiment. In addition, hSpt5 knockdown led to significant decreases in Tat transactivation and inhibited HIV-1 replication, indicating that hSpt5 was required for mediating Tat transactivation and HIV-1 replication. Conclusions: The findings presented here showed that hSpt5 is a bona fide positive regulator of Tat transactivation and HIV-1 replication in vivo. These results also suggest that hSpt5 function in transcription regulation and mRNA capping is essential for a subset of cellular and viral genes and may not be required for global gene expression.
https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-1-46
Published - Dec 27 2004
Peptide Elongation Factors
Transcriptional Activation
mRNA guanylyltransferase
Small Interfering RNA
Trans-Activators
Viral Genes
Terminal Repeat Sequences
RNA Polymerase II
Ping, Y. H., Chu, C. Y., Cao, H., Jacque, J. M., Stevenson, M., & Rana, T. M. (2004). Modulating HIV-1 replication by RNA interference directed against human transcription elongation factor SPT5. Retrovirology, 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-1-46
Modulating HIV-1 replication by RNA interference directed against human transcription elongation factor SPT5. / Ping, Yueh Hsin; Chu, Chia Ying; Cao, Hong; Jacque, Jean Marc; Stevenson, Mario; Rana, Tariq M.
In: Retrovirology, Vol. 1, 27.12.2004.
Ping, YH, Chu, CY, Cao, H, Jacque, JM, Stevenson, M & Rana, TM 2004, 'Modulating HIV-1 replication by RNA interference directed against human transcription elongation factor SPT5', Retrovirology, vol. 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-1-46
Ping YH, Chu CY, Cao H, Jacque JM, Stevenson M, Rana TM. Modulating HIV-1 replication by RNA interference directed against human transcription elongation factor SPT5. Retrovirology. 2004 Dec 27;1. https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-1-46
Ping, Yueh Hsin ; Chu, Chia Ying ; Cao, Hong ; Jacque, Jean Marc ; Stevenson, Mario ; Rana, Tariq M. / Modulating HIV-1 replication by RNA interference directed against human transcription elongation factor SPT5. In: Retrovirology. 2004 ; Vol. 1.
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Hasan Elahi to Close VACI Lecture Series With Talk on Arts Education Methods and Ideas
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In his more than 20 years in academia, artist Hasan Elahi has come to a simple conclusion: Few people understand higher education.
"It's a very cryptic system," he said.
As a core faculty member at the School of Art this season, Elahi has been working with students and emerging artists with academic interests to develop teaching strategies that incorporate their individual artistic practices.
"My job here is to help demystify the entire system for these artists," he said.
Elahi, a professor and the director of the School of Art at George Mason University, will be closing out this season's Visual Arts Lecture Series with a talk at 7 p.m. Friday, August 2 in the Hultquist Center.
During his lecture, he hopes to give Chautauquans a look into his process as an artist and teacher. He describes his practice as being more directed by ideas than any single medium.
"I think historically, a lot of artists and a lot of people who come to the arts expect us to be working from a specific material or a specific medium," he said. "Often that's the first or second thing that one is asked when you identify as an artist. (People ask), 'Oh, what medium?' And for many of us, (we) don't necessarily follow a traditional model."
He believes artists have a duty to use their work to reflect the realities of their time.
"If you think about it … whether you go back to Rembrandt paintings or … cave paintings, all art was contemporary art at one time," he said. "Artists would often depict what was happening in their society in that work. If you look at what's happening in society today and in my lifetime, there's a lot of topics that keep coming up."
His work focuses on topics like immigration, citizenship, borders and surveillance, as well as the integration of military technology into civilian life.
"The relationship of warfare and technology is something that's at the forefront in my work," he said.
Elahi said his course at the School of Art is especially important because many of the students and emerging artists are in or preparing to enter graduate school, and will likely be put into teaching positions with little preparation.
"Most schools operate like, 'Here's your syllabus, go teach your class, … figure it out,' " he said.
He hopes that equipping artists with a better understanding of the education system and teaching methods will ultimately produce a greater diversity of artistic practices.
"In the arts, we have this tendency to really teach from what our teachers taught us," Elahi said. "Because so much of art teaching is based on practice, it tends to perpetuate a very specific type of practice. We're trying to get our students to think, not just from a material-(based) practice, but from their ideas."
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The co-owner of a Mississippi bar says a man showed up to the bar's Halloween party and costume contest wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe.
The white man was asked to remove the outfit and leave Saturday night. A photo of the person shows a man in the garb holding the state flag, which features a small Confederate flag as its canton, Mutt & BC's Bar & Grill head Bryan Carroll told The Clarion-Ledger.
Carroll says the man left. He says he wasn't a regular and has been barred from the business.
Chance Delaney, who posted a photo of the man's costume on Facebook, told the Jackson Clarion Ledger that he received the image from a friend who asked to remain anonymous.
By 3 p.m. Wednesday, the image had been shared on Delaney's Facebook page more than 300 times.
Picayune Mayor Ed Pinero says he's happy the bar asked the man to leave. He says the city doesn't support any type of racist action, "whether it's true to life or a costume party."
Information from: The Clarion Ledger, http://www.clarionledger.com
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — An avowed white supremacist was sentenced to life plus 419 years on state charges Monday for deliberately driving his car into anti-racism protesters during a white nationalist rally in Virginia.


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The government of Viet Nam, in partnership with the OECD and ASEAN, is undertaking a second Investment Policy Review as part of an active programme of investment policy reforms.
This review will assess the investment climate in Viet Nam, including the institutional and legislative framework for investment. It will focus on policy options in the areas of investment policy, investment promotion and facilitation, responsible business conduct, infrastructure and corporate governance, and will propose measures to help boost both foreign and domestic investment.
This review is taking place within the framework of the ASEAN-OECD Investment Programme, and follows on from the country's first comprehensive investment policy review in 2009.
March OECD mission to Viet Nam to kick-off the Investment Policy Review and meet with the country Task Force.
April-July Government prepares answers to a tailored questionnaire based on the Policy Framework for Investment which will define the scope of the review.
July Second OECD fact-finding mission to Viet Nam to discuss answers to the questionnaire.
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April OECD-Viet Nam seminar with ministries and stakeholders in Hanoi to discuss the draft review.
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Revised draft review circulated for comment.
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Follow-up Results presented at regional/sub-regional level including the Regional Policy Network for Investment under the OECD Southeast Asia Regional Programme to share experiences among countries using the PFI, along with other activities to support the implementation of the government's reforms..


New Delhi: Just months before the Nirav Modi scam tumbled out, Punjab National Bank (PNB) quietly recalled two employees, both internal auditors posted at the lender's Hong Kong and Dubai branches after they exposed a deep rot within its banking system.
Top sources within the investigative agencies probing the matter told Firstpost that authorities have learnt that the PNB action, against its own staff, was a fallout of a concurrent audit, initiated in March 2017, in which they had revealed colossal anomalies.
Sources said VP Singh, PNB's auditor posted at Hong Kong was sent to conduct an audit of the Dubai branch, while GS Agarwal of the Dubai branch was sent to Hong Kong to complete the concurrent audit.
"Both the officers had flagged various misdeeds including massive NPAs in the state-owned lender's overseas branch. It appears, the report was also sent to the PNB headquarters in Delhi. Subsequently these two officers who exposed the wrongdoings in the banking system were told to return to India in August 2017. What is surprising is the fact that these two PNB officers had not completed their foreign assignment, which was for three years."
"We have asked for a copy of the inspection report and further action will be taken after examining the points raised by the auditors," sources said, adding that many of these issues will be covered in the chargesheets.
It is learnt that VP Singh and GS Agarwal had pointed out irregularities in granting of loans to companies without due diligence, sanctioning of letters of undertaking (LoUs) and had exposed a cartel of businessmen, who were taking the bank for a ride in connivance with top officials. The two honest and upright officers were subsequently given punishment posting just few months before the Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi fraud surfaced in the public domain. Despite repeated attempts, the two officers could not be reached for comment.
Sources said that top officials at the PNB head office knew about the fraud to the tune of Rs 14,000 crore a month before they decided to file their complaint with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
"They tried to hush up the matter in December 2017 as the PNB, at that time, was considering a fresh proposal of loans to Nirav Modi's companies. When they failed to resolve it, finally a complaint was filed with the central agency," sources revealed.
A detailed questionnaire sent to PNB's Managing Director and CEO Sunil Mehta, last week, remained unanswered.
It is learnt the investigators have received details of some PNB officers who were posted abroad over the last five years and how the top brass who aided irregular sanctioning of loans, circumvented rules. They have zeroed-in on an officer who worked with the bank's treasury department and stayed at the Hong Kong branch for four-and-a-half years. Upon his return last year, the officer was sent to London and subsequently handles the back office of a PNB overseas branch.
Ghazi Traders, which runs a street hosiery shop in Hong Kong, was sanctioned a loan to the tune of Rs 1.5 crore by PNB without any security. The money never returned and the NPA was quietly buried through mathematical jugglery of the banking system. Similarly, a diamond trading company owned by an Indian defaulted on massive loans taken from the PNB, when Usha Ananthasubramanian was at the helm of affairs. The diamond company is located in the same Kowloon area of Hong Kong from where one of PNB's branches operates. Mehul Choksi and Nirav Modi too had their accounts in the branch along with other companies that defaulted on PNB loans, and these accounts has been termed as NPAs. PNB's top boss Sunil Mehta did not respond to the query on NPAs at the Hong Kong and Dubai branches.
The investigator said the entire loan racket is run by a cartel with an Indian fixer handling the operation. He had roped in two bank officials including a PNB officer to compromise the treasury unit of the banks as well to manipulate the daily dollar rates. Instead of taking action against the PNB officer for wrongdoings, the top brass at PNB's headquarters rewarded him by offering him a coveted position in India.
"It has come to our notice that bank employees kept in touch with each other via WhatsApp messages. As per the rule, the dealer is not allowed to carry a mobile phone inside but the rules were violated. We have learnt that the issue was flagged in one of the inspection reports sent to the PNB head office, but subsequently no action was taken," the sources added.


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When I added a new user as a domain user, automatically the use became a member of the  "Remote Desktop Users" group and also the "Allow log on through Remote Desktop Services" policy was set correctly.
The thing is, once I log in with whatever existing domain user, then I can switch to or log out/in with the new domain user.
But, if I restart the Windows 10 machine, I cannot log in with the new domain user.
So, I have to log in with any existing domain user then switch to or log out/in with the new domain user.
As long as I don't turn off the Windows machine, I don't have the error message.
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