Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankar Ayesakadmi. The news articles along with the page numbers are displayed here for your reference. The PDF link of the handwritten notes and the time stamping of the news articles is given in the description box as well as in the comment section. Now let us start our today's news analysis. This news article is about the fire accident that has happened in New Delhi. The syllabus relevant to the analysis of this news article is highlighted here for your reference. Yesterday that is on 8th December, a major fire accident has happened in the residential building in the central Delhi. Though the fire accident has happened in the residential building, but a major portion of this residential building was rented out as a jacket manufacturing unit. So we can say that the manufacturing unit has been operating illegally in the residential building and the major cause of the fire could be short circuit in this case. So as per this news article, four people died because of burn injuries and others died due to suffocation, that is asphyxiation. Here asphyxiation means the state of being deprived of oxygen and if there is a very less or no oxygen then a person will become unconscious and could lead to death because of shortage of oxygen. And the main reason for such huge casualties is that there was no ventilation in the building because of narrow staircases and windows with grills and a locked erase. In addition, the factory's raw material was stored inside and majority of them were combustible material such as cardboard, resin, plastic and other packing materials. So when fire broke out, the burning of raw materials resulted in dense smoke and the entire building became as a gas chamber. So the workers were not able to escape and they died due to asphyxiation. So in this context of this news article, let us know some facts on the poor status of fire safety in India. See fire service is a state subject and has been included as municipal function in the little of the constitution and the municipal corporations and the local bodies are responsible for providing fire services in many states. So there is no uniform law for fire safety in the country and this is a major drawback leading to poor fire safety in India. There is the National Building Code of 2016 guidelines and this deals with fire safety and this covers the detailed guidelines for construction, maintenance and fire safety of the structures like a number of exits, then the place of extinguishers and use of fire retardant building materials enforce fire safety. And these guidelines were published by Bureau of Indian Standards and it is used by the local bodies for framing building laws. But the issue is that it is a just a recommended guidelines but not mandatory. So often the safety measures are overlooked leading to non-implementation of fire safety measures in India. If you look at the records of National Crime Records Bureau that is in 2015 alone a total of 18,450 cases of fire accidents were reported in India and about 17,700 people were killed. This means that roughly more than 48 people are killed in India due to fire accidents in every day. Among these, almost about 42.1% of deaths were due to fire accidents in residential buildings. The data also tells that the maximum number of fire accidents were reported in urbanised states like Maharashtra, Gujarat, then Madhya Pradesh, then Tamil Nadu. This shows that the close relation between high population densities in urban areas and then lack of urban planning and presence of such illegal manufacturing units in the residential areas. So from the above discussion we can say that the central and state governments have to take concrete measures to prevent such fire accidents which are becoming regular in the recent times. So this is the information with respect to this news article. Now let us move on to the next news article. This news article is about the Lokpal and its present status of implementation of Lokpal and Lokayikthos Act of 2013. The syllabus relevant to the analysis of this news article is highlighted here for your reference. So in this contest we will be discussing about Lokpal which is established under the Lokpal and the Lokayikthos Act of 2013, then the composition of Lokpal and the present status of the Lokpal Act implementation. See the main function of Lokpal is to enquire and investigate into the allegations of the corruption cases, again as the public functionaries who are falling within the ambit of this Act of 2013. Now if you look at the composition of the Lokpal which consists of a chairperson and the members who shall not be more than 18 members, then the out of the total members of this Lokpal, 50% of the members shall be from judicial members. Then out of the total members of this Lokpal, 50% of the members shall be judicial members. Then the remaining 50% is the non-judicial members. So if you consider Lokpal as a whole, we can tell that Lokpal consists of chairperson, then the four judicial members, then four non-judicial members. About 50% of the non-judicial members shall be from the persons belonging to the schedule cast, then the schedule tribes, then other backward classes including minorities and women. Now we will see about the appointment of Lokpal members and its chairperson and they are appointed by the president on the recommendations of a selection committee and this selection committee consists of five members including its chairperson. Now that prime minister is the chairperson of this selection committee, then other members includes the speaker of Lok Sabha, then the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, then the Chief Justice of India or a judge of a Supreme Court nominated by the Chief Justice of India and this selection committee also consists of one eminent jurist. So we can say this selection committee consists of five members including its chairperson. Now we will discuss about the powers and authority of Lokpal. The Lokpal has power to enquire into allegations of corruption cases against the public functionaries who are or who have been in the office. For example, it can include the prime minister, then the minister in the union government, then the member of parliament as well as officials of the union government under the categories of group A, group B, group C and then group D. Then the Lokpal has also have authority to enquire into allegations of corruption charges against the chairperson or members or officers, even the directives of any board or corporation or society or trust or any autonomous body either which is established by an act of parliament or partly funded by the union or the state governments will come under the ambit of Lokpal. Know that Lokpal also covers any society or trust or body that receives foreign contributions above 10 lakh rupees. Now we will see the present status of implementation of the pros and cons of this Lokpal Act of 2013 and this act was passed in 2013 and the present first chairperson and the members of Lokpal were appointed in the month of March 2019 only, therefore at present there is a chairperson and then four judicial persons and also four non-judicial members of this Lokpal. Now if you look at the news article it says that several key pros and cons of Lokpal and Lokalikta's Act of 2013 have not been operationalized. This assumes significance because Lokpal has said that the process of constituting the Lokpal's enquiry and prosecution wings have not yet begun. Know that as per sections 11 and 12 of this act Lokpal shall constitute an enquiry wing and prosecution wing respectively until the time these wings are constituted the central government shall provide necessary personnel for conducting enquiries and prosecution as per this act. However such action has not been initiated by the Lokpal. The news article also tells that the regulations for how to conduct preliminary investigations have not been finalized. If you see section 60 of the Act it gives the Lokpal the power to make regulations on many matters and one such matter is regarding the power of Lokpal to make regulations on the manner and the procedure of conducting preliminary enquiry or investigation. Then the one more additional matter is that regarding the power of Lokpal to make regulations on the website to display of the status of all complaints in terms of whether the complaint is pending or disposed along with the records on the evidences. But till now rules and regulations have not been made on both these matters so far. The news article also tells that Lokpal has not yet notified a format for filing complaints despite this about 1065 complaints were sent to the office of Lokpal and out of this 1065 complaints around 1000 complaints have been disposed of until September 30th. Now we will see about the disclosure of assets and liabilities by the public servants. Know that as per the section 44 of Lokpal and Lavkayikthas Act of 2013. The new public servant shall make a declaration of his assets and liabilities. The news article also tells that the rules for the disclosure of assets and liabilities by the public servants have not been notified either. And this is a key provision of this Act because often the source of complaint is that assets are acquired by the public servant disproportionate to the known sources of their income. So we can say that Lokpal and Lavkayikthas Act of 2013 has to be implemented in full spirit to ensure the government's commitment to clean and responsive governance. And Lokpal is one such body to curtail and punish acts of corruption committed by the public functionaries. So in this context of this news article also know that India has ratified the United Nations Convention Against Corruption in 2011. This convention is the only legally binding universal anti-corruption instrument. Therefore to summarize this news article we have seen some of the important provisions of Lokpal and Lavkayikthas Act of 2013 and then about the news article which tells that several key provisions of this Act have not been operationalized. Now have a look at the practice question which will be discussed at the end of the session. Now let us move on to the next news article. This news article is related to the Citizenship Amendment Bill of 2019 and as per the news article this contentious bill will be introduced in the Lok Sabha by the Union Minister on 9th December that is on today. And this bill has been in the news for the last few months. The important provisions of the bill and the objections raised against the bill were discussed in detail in our 5th December 2019 news analysis video and it is advisable to watch it for the better understanding of the Citizenship Amendment Bill of 2019. But in our today's analysis we will be discussing in detail about the constitutional provisions related to the Citizenship. Know that part two of the Constitution of India that is the articles from 5 to 11 deals with Citizenship but the Constitution contains neither any permanent nor any elaborate provisions in this regard and these articles that is articles from 5 to 11 only identify the persons who became citizens of India at the commencement of the Constitution that is on 26th January 1950. It does not deal with the problem of acquisition or loss of Citizenship after 26th January 1950 but the Constitution empowers the Parliament to enact a law to provide for such matters on any other matter relating to the Citizenship. Therefore, the Parliament has enacted the Citizenship Act of 1955 and it has been amended from time to time and the present 2019 bill also tries to amend this Act of Citizenship of 1955. So, in today's analysis we will be discussing the constitutional provisions with respect to Citizenship. As per the Constitution of India, there are four categories of persons who became the Citizens of India at the commencement of the Constitution. Article 5 says that any person who had his domicile India and also fulfilled any one of the three conditions that is if he was born in India or if either of his parents was born in India or if he has been ordinarily resident in India for five years immediately before the commencement of the Constitution became a citizen of India. Now look at the article 6 it says that the rights of Citizenship of certain persons who have migrated to India from Pakistan. Article 6 says that a person who migrated to India from Pakistan became an Indian citizen if he or either of his parents or any of his grandparents was born in undivided India and also fulfilled any one of the two conditions that is in case if he migrated to India before 19th July 1948 and he had been ordinarily resident in India since the date of his migration or in other case that is if he migrated to India on or after 19th July 1948 and he had been registered as a citizen of India and this has to be done by an officer appointed by the government of India on an application made by the person seeking the registration to such officer before the commencement of this Constitution. But a person could be so registered only if he had been resident in India for six months preceding the date of his application for the said registration. Now look at the article 7 Prozence which deals with the rights of Citizenship of certain migrants to Pakistan. It says that a person who migrated to Pakistan from India after 1st March of 1947 but later written to India for resettlement could become an Indian citizen. So for this he had to be resident in India for six months preceding the date of his application for registration. Then article 8 deals with the rights of Citizenship of certain persons of Indian origin residing outside India. It says that a person who or any of whose parents or grandparents was born in undivided India but who is ordinarily residing outside India shall become an Indian citizen if he has been registered as a citizen of India by the diplomatic or consular representative of India in the country of his residence. So therefore article 8 deals with overseas Indians who may want to acquire Indian citizenship. Now let us discuss about article 9 which says that no person shall be a citizen of India or be deemed to be a citizen of India if he has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of any foreign state. Then article 10 says that every person who is or is deemed to be a citizen of India shall continue to be such citizen subjected to the pros and cons of any law made by the parliament. Look at article 11 which says that parliament shall have the power to make any pros and cons with respect to the acquisition and the termination of citizenship and all other matters related to citizenship. Therefore this constitutional power was used by the parliament to make the citizenship act of 1955. And also the present that is 2019 Citizenship Amendment Bill is also based on this power which is enshrined in article 11. Know that Citizenship Act of 1955 provides for acquisition and loss of citizenship after the commencement of the Constitution of India. It prescribes five ways of acquiring citizenship that is by birth or by descent or by registration or by naturalization or by incorporation of territory. From this what we need to understand is that none of these provisions enables a person to acquire or loss of citizenship based on their relation. That is why the proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill of 2019 has become one of the most contentious bill because it proposes that the persons belonging to minority communities like Hindus, Sikhs or Buddhists or Jains or Parsis and Christians from the countries like Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan shall not be treated as illegal migrants and can be eligible to get the citizenship of India. So in this direction the Union Home Minister is going to introduce the Proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill of 2019 in the Lok Sabha and once it is stable in the Lok Sabha we could able to know the exact provisions in the Proposed Amendment Bill of 2019. With this we have come to the end of the analysis of this news article and the displayed practice question will be discussed at the end of the session. Now let us proceed to the next news article. This news article is titled as an Asian Engine Driven by India and China. In this editorial the author discusses some of the concerns between both the countries that is between India and China. The syllabus relevant for the analysis of this news article is highlighted here for your reference. The author mentions that the global engines of economic growth have shifted to Asia in the last 30 years. Initially the engines were in the hands of powerful countries in the Asia Pacific region. But now the engines have shifted to the Indo-Pacific region that includes South Asia. In fact the Asian continent which has around half the global population has emerged as the new fulcrum of geoeconomic and geostatic re-alignments. The idea of fulcrum refers to the point that keeps the geostatic and geoeconomic alignments as a balanced as well as ensures the order. And this region is known for high economic growth rates but at the same time the region is also accompanied by some of the highest military expenditures in the world. This means that while the region has enough potential to show higher growth rates, the region is also suffering from political or border security issues. That is why the author mentions that the region is also known for some of the highest military expenditures in the world. Then the article mentions that both India and China are expected to contribute global economic growth in the future. So the expectation is that the Asian engine of economic growth will be driven by India and China. But both the nations have some concerns that they have to take into serious consideration. And the author mentions that China is the world's second largest economy and China must play a constructive role globally and also within Asia. But how is China playing within Asia in terms of trade? Let us take the bilateral trade between India and China. And India faces a huge and rising trade imbalance against China. If you see financial year 2018-19, the bilateral trade between two countries stands at about 87 billion dollars. But the share of India is just about 17 billion dollars. This means that trade deficit that India has with China is around 53 billion US dollars. So in this context, the author mentions that the recent decision made at the Mahamalapuram summit that is in the month of October 2019 is significant. This is because it was agreed between the two countries to set up a new mechanism to discuss the trade imbalance. See, this Mahamalapuram summit is the second informal summit between India and China. And such informal summits are significant in foreign relations as they can resolve the existing tensions between the engaging nations. Then we will discuss the role played by India and China in international institutions. Here the author mentions that as a member of several multilateral institutions, both India and China can give shape to the economics destinies of such institutions. For example, reforms are required in world trade organizations, then in international monetary funds and such other multilateral institutions. And these reforms are required to take the world towards inclusive, equitable and sustainable growth of all countries, particularly the developing and the least developed nations. Now, with respect to regional trade issues, the author talks about RCEP, that is regional comprehensive economic partnership. And here the suggestion is that the proposed agreement should have a wider ambit. That is, it should have a strong component of trade in services because India is in a better position in terms of services. Therefore, the RCEP framework should include this component. So in this context, China has a role to ensure that India's concerns are addressed with respect to RCEP, so that in the future, India may join the framework. In such case, both the nations can grow together in Asia. But if you see in the present draft format, the agreement is appearing as a trade arm of the Belt and Road Initiative of China. And this is the comment made by former Prime Minister of Australia on the present draft of RCEP agreement. And the author talks about the India-China PLS-1 framework. And we know that under this framework, both India and China are jointly training Afghan diplomats. And this framework is said to be result of the Wuhan informal summit. Therefore, in the future, China and India could explore their potential to work together with other countries on important issues. And they could work on improving the Asian infrastructure and enabling the connectivity in Asia. And this cooperation has to be on the basis of peak quality and an open and transparent model under the existing Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. That is AIIB. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a multilateral development bank. And the mission of this bank is to improve social and economic outcomes in Asia. And beaching is the headquarters of this bank. It began its operations in January 2016. And at present, it has grown to about 100 approved members worldwide. The bank is making investments in sustainable infrastructure and other productive sectors in Asia and also beyond Asia. Know that India is a member in this bank. And India has the voting power share of around 7.6% of the total voting power. And China has around 26%. And China is the largest shareholder in this bank. And India is the second largest shareholder in this bank. And the author mentions that China has to show greater transparency in its various actions. And it has to engage in closer consultations with India when its presence grows in South Asia. Here the presence of China means its involvement with the other countries like Sri Lanka, Pakistan and other South Asian economies. This has assumed significance because there were criticisms on China being non-transparent in the Belt and Road Initiative. And China should respect the territorial integrity of other countries in the Indo-Pacific region. So in this context here, the territorial integrity includes sovereignty over land, water and aid space of the respective nations. And we have been seeing in the news about China violating the territorial integrity of nations in Indo-Pacific region in all the dimensions. Now we'll see in areas of convergence, both countries, that is India and China, should have a joint consultative mechanism to protect their interest and the interest of some other developing nations. One such area is in the global energy market because both the nations are big importers of oil and gas. And such a mutual support system is required to tackle the concerns when there are problems affecting the oil and gas consuming countries. And these are the some of the concerns that have to be addressed between the two large emerging and growing powers of Asia. And we should also remember that for these two countries to rise, or other countries in Asia to rise, peace and stability is required at the first place. Therefore, all the Asian countries should aspect together rather than holding back each other. There should be cooperation rather than rivalry. So the author concludes the article by quoting the statement made by the Prime Minister at the second edition of the Raisina Dialogue. Know that the second edition of the Raisina Dialogue was held in New Delhi in 2017. So in that context, the Prime Minister noted that there is enough room for all Asian countries to prosper together and that the Asia of rivalry will hold us all back. And it is the Asia of cooperation that will shape this century. Therefore, in the context of this editorial article, we saw examples for various aspects of bilateral relations between India and China. Then on the Secretary Front, we saw about territorial integrity. For example, we have a concern that Belt and Road Initiative of China passing through our territory of Pakistan occupied Kashmir, then on China's relations with other countries in South Asia. China has to take India into confidence that such engagements are not strategic, or such engagements are not against India. Then on energy front, both countries have to start a joint consultative mechanism to protect the consumer interest. Then at the international level, both countries should bring reforms in the international financial and other institutions. We have also discussed on joint cooperation in developmental work on other countries. That is, we saw about the India-China PLS-1 framework. Then on the trade front, we saw that steps should be taken to address the trade deficit and cheaper import concerns of India from China. Then on political front, we saw about the importance of Mahamalupuram summit's decisions that one of the decisions made was to address the trade issues. These issues have assumed significance because that India and China has conducted informal summits consistently. That is one in Wuhan, that is in China. Then recently, second informal summit at Mahamalupuram in Chennai. So with this information, we have come to the end of analysis of this news article. The displayed practice question will be discussed at the end of the session. Now let us move on to the analysis of next news article. This news article is related to the Bharatbhand exchange-traded fund. In our analysis, we will be discussing the saline features of Bharatbhand ETF and its advantages. The syllabus relevant to the analysis is highlighted here for your reference. Kindly notice that this Bharatbhand exchange-traded fund should not be confused with the Bharat-22 ETF, which is also one type of ETF which was launched in 2017 and managed by ICICI, Prudential Mutual Fund. And this Bharat-22 ETF consists of the stocks of that is 22 stocks of central public sector enterprises. Then the public sector banks. Then the government-owned shares in certain private sector companies. Therefore, it is based on the index that is Bharat-22 index. And this index is a unique blend of shares of key central public sector enterprises. Then the public sector banks. And also the government-owned shares in private companies like L&T, then Axis Bank and ITC. We can say this Bharat-22 ETF consists of 22 stocks of government shares in certain public sector enterprises, public sector banks, then the government-owned shares in certain private sector companies. Now let us come back to the Bharatbhand. Few days back, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister, gave its approval for creation and the launch of Bharatbhand exchange-traded fund. One of the objectives of this Bharatbhand exchange-traded fund is to create an additional source of funding for central public sector undertakings, then the central public sector enterprises, then the central public financial institutions and such other government organizations. Know that this Bharatbhand ETF is the first corporate bond ETF in the country. Now let us understand what is meant by ETF. Exchange-traded funds are the funds that are listed and traded on stock exchanges, just like your normal shares. Hence, ETF is a basket of securities that trade on an exchange like Bombay Stock Exchange or National Stock Exchange just like your normal stock. Know that the trading value of ETF is based on the net asset value of the underlying stocks that it represents. These ETFs are similar to mutual funds but with some differences. Know that ETFs can be brought and sold only through the stock exchanges. This Bharatbhand ETF can be called as one type of bond because just like a bond which is an instrument that represents loan made by an investor to a borrower such as corporate or government organizations. So, Bharatbhand ETFs are type of ETF in which the public buys the bonds which are issued. Now, let us discuss some of the important features of Bharatbhand. The first and foremost feature of this Bharatbhand ETF is that these bonds are AAA rated bonds. Know that the AAA rated bonds have the highest possible rating that may have assigned to an issuers' bonds by any of the major credit rating agencies. And these AAA rated bonds have high degree of credit worthiness. Now, if you look at the unit size of Bharatbhand, it is just about 1000 rupees. Therefore, this enables the individual investors to invest in this bond. And this will ensure broader investor base as retail investors who are currently not participating in bond markets due to liquidity and accessibility constraints. Now, we will discuss another important feature of Bharatbhand ETF that is each ETF will have a fixed maturity rate. Initially, there will be issued in two series that is with maturity period of 3 years and maturity period of 10 years. And each series will have a separate index of the same maturity series. And this index will be constructed by an independent index provider that is the National Stock Exchange. Know that this index helps to measure the value of bond in the market by measuring the performance in the market. And these indices are Nifty Bharatbhand index of April 2023 and then the Nifty Bharatbhand index of April 2030. In case of 2023 bonds, the top three issuing companies are the Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd, then the Power Finance Corporation and the NABART. Then in case of 2030 bonds, the top three issuing companies are the National Highways Authority of India, then the Indian Dialogue Finance Corporation and then Power Grid Corporation. Now, we will see another important feature of Bharatbhand that is these Bharatbhand offer transparency by disclosing the bond details. Then the price variations on a daily basis. Therefore, the investors can buy and sell units at the prevailing market prices through their electronic accounts. It is to be noted that Bharatbhand ETF will have one of the cheapest expensive ratio that is about 0.005%. Here, the expensive ratio or expense ratio is the annual fee that all funds or exchange traded funds charge their shareholders such as management fees, then the administrative fees and then operating cost. Therefore, lower expensive ratio helps to earn higher returns. Hence, the Bharatbhand offers higher returns for the retail investors. Now, let us discuss some of the advantages offered by the Bharatbhand to the Central Public Sector Enterprises. And this Bharatbhand would offer Central Public Sector Enterprises or the Public Sector Reunits or in case of Central Public Financial Institutions and other government organizations as an additional source of investment. It will also expand their investor base through the retail participation and which can increase demand for their bonds. Therefore, the increase in demand for their bonds would reduce their cost of borrowing over a period of time. So, these are some of the advantages with reference to Bharat bonds. Therefore, with reference to this news article, we have discussed what is meant by exchange traded fund and then the example for ETF that is Bharatbhand ETF then also Bharat 22 ETF. With this information, we have come to the end of analysis of this news article. Now, the displayed practice question will be discussed at the end of the session. Now, let us start our practice problems questions session. Now, look at this question. This question is with reference to the Bharatbhand exchange traded fund and they have given two statements and you have to choose the correct statements from the course given. Statement one says that it is an exchange traded fund with the objective to create an additional source of funding for Central Public Sector undertakings, then Central Public Sector Enterprises, then Central Public Financial Institutions and other government organizations. This statement is correct because the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs had recently given its approval for the creation and launch of Bharatbhand exchange traded fund and its objective is to create an additional source of funding for CPSCs that is Central Public Sector Enterprises and for Central Public Sector undertakings and also for Central Public Financial Institutions and other government organizations. Now, look at the second statement which says that Bharatbhand consists of 22 stocks of CPSCs, public sector banks and government owned shares. The second statement is incorrect because it is related to Bharat 22 ETF but not related to Bharatbhand ETF. Kindly notice that Bharat 22 ETF was launched in 2017 and it is managed by ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund and this Bharat 22 ETF consists of 22 stocks of CPSCs that is Central Public Sector Enterprises, then Public Sector Banks and government owned shares in certain private sector companies such as L&T, Axis Bank. Therefore, the second statement is incorrect. So, for this question, option A that is one only is the correct option. Now, consider this question. They have given two statements with reference to Citizenship Act and you have to choose the correct statements. The first statement says that the Constitution has empowered the Parliament to make any pros and cons with respect to the acquisition and termination of citizenship and all other matters related to citizenship. Then the second statement says that the Citizenship Act of 1955 has been amended only once since its enactment. Now, as per the pros and cons of Constitution of India, that is as per Article 11, it says that the Parliament shall have the power to make any pros and cons with respect to the acquisition and termination of citizenship and all other matters relating to citizenship. Therefore, this Constitution power was used by the Parliament to enact the Citizenship Act of 1955. So, statement one is correct. Now, look at the second statement which says that the Citizenship Act of 1955 has been amended only once since its enactment. Know that since its enactment, that is Citizenship Act of 1955 has been amended about 8 times, that is in 1957, then in 1960, then in 1985, then also in 1986, then in 1992, then in 2003, 2005 and 2015. Therefore, second statement is incorrect. Kindly notice that the proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill of 2019, if passed, would amend the Citizenship Act of 1955 for the 9th time. So, for this question, option A, one only is the correct option. Now, let's take up these questions with reference to Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Here, they have given five statements and you have to choose the correct statements. First statement says that the bank can lend to members beyond Asia and this statement is correct because though the mission of the bank is to improve social and economic outcomes in Asia, the bank can lend to the members beyond Asia. Therefore, first statement is correct. The second statement is also correct because India is one of the founding members of this bank. Then, look at this third statement which says that India is the second largest shareholder in this bank. Then fourth statement says that the bank is dedicated to the promotion of economic and social development in Asia. Then, fifth statement says that Beijing is the headquarters of this AIIB. Know that with reference to AIIB, the membership is not restricted to Asian region. For example, even United Kingdom is also a member of this AIIB. Then, as a founding member of this AIIB, China is the largest shareholder with about 30.79% of its shares. Then, India is the second largest shareholder with around 8.65% of shares. Then, the third largest shareholder is Russia. This ranking also applies in terms of voting powers. That is, China's voting power share is about 26.52%. Then, the voting power of India is about 7.6%. Then, Russia's voting power is about 5.98%. So, all the given statements with reference to Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank are correct. Therefore, for this question, option D that is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 is the correct option. Now, look at the reference question which was appeared in UPSC Prelims 2019 that is with reference to AIIB and they have given three statements and you have to choose the correct statements. So, for this question, option A that is 1 only is the correct option. Now, consider this question with reference to Lokpal. They have given three statements and you have to choose the statements which are incorrect. Statement 1 says that it consists of a chairperson and eight judicial members. Then, the second statement says that the chairperson and the members of Lokpal are appointed by the president on the recommendations of a selection committee. Then, the third statement says that it has powers to inquire complaints on the allegation of corruption against the incumbent prime minister. Know that Lokpal shall consist of a chairperson and four judicial members and four non-judicial members and out of four non-judicial members of Lok Sabha, not less than 50% shall be from among the members belonging to the schedule cast, schedule tribes and other backward classes including minorities and women. So, statement 1 is incorrect. Now, look at the second statement which says that the chairperson and the members of Lokpal are appointed by the president on the recommendations of a selection committee. Currently, notice that the selection committee consists of five members including the chairperson and the prime minister is the chairperson of the selection committee and other members includes the speaker of Lok Sabha, then the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, then the Chief Justice of India or a judge of a Supreme Court nominated by the Chief Justice of India and also includes one eminent jurist. So, second statement is correct because the chairperson and the members of Lokpal are appointed by the president on the recommendations of a selection committee. Now, look at the third statement which says that it has powers to inquire complaints on the allegation of corruption against the incumbent prime minister. Kindly notice that the Lokpal has jurisdiction to inquire into allegations of corruption against many public functionaries who is or who has been in the office mentioned in this act that is Lokpal and Loka Iktas Act of 2013 and it includes the prime minister as well and who is refers to the incumbent. So, we can tell that the incumbent prime minister is included as well. Also notice that the other public functionaries include the minister in the union government, then it includes member of parliament as well as officials of the union government under group A, group B, group C and group D categories and also chairperson, members, officers and directors of any board or corporation, society or trust or autonomous body either established by an act of parliament or wholly or partly funded by the union or state government are also covered under the ambit of Lokpal. Also, Lokpal covers any society or trust or body that receives foreign contribution above 10 lakh rupees. So, third statement is also correct statement. But for this question, you have to choose the statements which are incorrect. So, option A, one only is the correct option for this question. With this, we have come to the end of analysis of today's news articles. If you like the video, please do like, comment, share and subscribe Shankara IS Academy YouTube channel for more updates on civil services exam preparation. Thank you.


In this training video, we're going to look at controlling the critical path in Microsoft Project. So if we were to turn on the critical path right now, anything that's critical will turn red. When we look at the bars, the taskbars, anything that's critical, these bars will become red. So we can do this by going to the Format tab, Bar Styles section of the ribbon, clicking on Critical Tasks. So we can see the entire project now is critical as far as Microsoft Project is concerned. The reason for this is because this is the way it's been linked together. It's a finish to start, relationship start, start. So every task is dependent on the next one and they have to happen immediately afterwards. But if we look at the example, Task 10. Even though we've linked them together and Project is telling us that job shortlisting needs to start immediately after the closing date when the job packs have been sent out, that's not going to be the case because you're going to need to, in effect, give a bit of time to allow the job packs to come back in before you can start job shortlisting. So it might take, for example, it could take 14 days, it could take 21 days for all the job packs to be sent back in to allow us to shortlist it. So we're going to say there's a delay here in this example of 21 days. So this task is due to start on the 29th of May this year, 2020. And that's a Friday. We're going to delay it by three weeks to say, well, we can actually give this task a three-week delay because we know it can't just be done straight away the minute the closing date happens. So I'm going to double-click and add a constraint, starting earlier than. And I always, when I'm doing this kind of work, set the date of the task. So this task is the 29th of May, which is there. And then I tend to work out three working weeks from there. So here's the 29th of May here. Now if I go forward a couple of weeks, so the 29th was a Friday. That tells me that's here. So week one would be the fifth, week two would be the 12th. Week three would be the 19th. So we're going to say we can't start any earlier than the 19th. And there's a delay. And we could put in a note to say, task delayed awaiting job part returns. And then OK. Now the critical part looks very different because everything that's red is critical. And everything now, which is prior to the jobs rule of listening is blue because we built in a 15-day buffer for task 10, and that's affected all the rest of the task. So that means anything prior to task 10 is non-critical because there's now a 15-day buffer for this. That's why they're blue. And we can tell this by changing tables. If we go to the view tab and go to the tables and choose schedule, you can then see what's critical and what's non-critical by looking at slack. So we can see 15 days here we go. 15 days for all of these tasks down to the job shortlist and we'll put you just delayed. And everything then from that point then is critical because there's one after another. So this is how you can actually set the critical path in reality. So what we're saying here is the first nine in this case and non-critical because in reality we can take a bit longer to do these in effect because we built in the days for the job shortlist in. So this now shows how project works with critical. The minute you delay something, you'll then see some kind of change within the critical path. Now we're going to do another one. I'm going to just change the tables. Go back to entries, the default. We're going to say here in this example that the HR induction is not going to happen immediately after the infomapricant. So we think we're going to set a date for the HR induction six weeks after you've informed the applicant. So we're going to go from Tuesday the 28th of July. I'm going to delay it by six weeks because that's how long it'll take to arrange the induction and make sure everything's okay after we've informed the applicant. So I'm going to double-click. I'm starting with a van. Again, I'm going to be careful of these dates. So it's the 28th of July. Here we go. And I know then say Tuesday and it's going to be delayed by six weeks in this example. So here's the 28th. So week one at the fourth, two, three, four, five will be the first of September. So that really means week six will be the eighth of September. I'm going to go to the eighth of September. I can always add a note. And so HR induction has been scheduled September. Two zero, two zero. Okay. And then because of the amount of time you put into the HR induction that now means everything is non-critical according to the way we've built this up except the HR induction. And we can again review this through tables and can now say what projects to end. So it's the initial 15 days plus the 30. That's where it's 45. And then it comes to the 30 down here at this period. And then it becomes zero. So if we knew we had a bit of leeway in the HR induction say we thought actually it's going to be a week early it's going to happen. We could use those five days elsewhere in a project. So you could leave that little bit of buffer there and say we'll leave. We'll leave it. We'll work on that and we'll use the duration elsewhere in the project. This is the way and kind of ideas that can be used to manipulate and control the critical path for business needs by adding constraints to tasks and then looking at how much slack is available within the project. And I'll just change the table back to finish to entry. And this now completes critical path control and how this can be achieved within Microsoft project. If you enjoyed this video make sure you like and subscribe to our channel. Hope to see you for the next tutorial and thanks for watching.


Before you start creating a course, it's important to first understand the structure of your content and assessment. Ultimately, these factors will influence how you structure the course. Once you're ready to get started, navigate to Manage Courses and Categories from the side administration menu on the left hand side of your screen. Select the category or subcategory you wish to create your course within. Select Create New Course. Enter the course's full name. Enter the course's short name. The course short name will appear in navigation throughout the site and will also be in the subject line of course emails. You can see that the course is within the course category we selected earlier. Our course is visible and has a start date of today. Course ID numbers are only used when matching the course with external systems, which we are not. So for this instance, we'll leave that section blank. Enter your course summary. Your course summary will be displayed on the list of courses, which is viewable to learners. There are four default course formats for you to choose from. A single activity format is used for displaying a single activity or resource such as a quiz or scorn package. Social format is when the centre of a course is taken up by a forum. This format essentially creates one large message board. It can be used for student or staff discussion forums. Topic formats are good for rolling enrolments or when the duration of a course changes or for module-based courses. Weekly format will automatically set up a course into weekly sections, starting with the date you have set the courses started and breaking into seven days each week from that date forward. In this instance, I'm going to select topics format. This course has six topics, so I will select six sections. There are additional settings such as appearance, files and uploads, groups, role renaming and tags. For the purposes of this demonstration, the default settings are sufficient. However, if you wish to further customise your courses, you do have the option to do so. Once you're happy with your course settings, select save and return. We can see our new course under the course subcategory we selected. By selecting the course and scrolling down the page, we are provided with an overview of the course. We also have the option to view, edit, view our enrolled users, delete, hide, back up or restore this course. Select view. To make changes to your course, select turn editing on, either from the right-hand side or from the left-hand administration menu. We are now in editing mode. If you wish to make changes to the default topic names, you can do so using the pencil icon and selecting enter. To add an activity or resource to your course, select add an activity or resource. You are then presented with the activity picker. From here, you can select from a range of activities and resources to add to your course. We will explore these activities and resources in a separate video. Once you've finished editing, select turn editing off. The course administration menu on the left-hand side allows you to manage your course. From this menu, you can edit the settings of your course, manage course enrollments, access course reports, manage learner assessments and grades, add and assign learners with badges for completing coursework, and perform other course administration functions. Under the switch role menu, you have the option to view your course as it appears to other users within the system. As you are currently logged in either as an administrator, trainer or course creator, your view of the course will be different to what other users will see. To switch roles, simply select the user you wish to view the course as. I am now viewing the course as a student. On the top right-hand corner menu, you can see that student appears underneath my username. Once you've finished viewing the course as this user, from the top right-hand corner drop-down menu, select return to my normal role.


In this presentation, we will take a look at the recording of a bond at a discount. Support Accounting Instruction by clicking the link below, giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website, broken out by category, further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical, reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files, and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. The information will be on the left side. We're going to enter that into the general journal. We will then post that to a worksheet over here, the worksheet having a beginning trial balance that's trial balance in order, assets, liabilities, equity, income and expense, assets and green liabilities in orange, equity accounts in light blue and revenue and expense, dark blue, debits being positive, credits being negative, debits minus the credits being zero, net income is currently the credit of sales minus zero expenses, zero debits or 700,000 net income. So what we're going to have here is the issuance of a bond which will pay interest semi-annually. Number of years will be 15, face amount 240,000, issue price 198,484, the interest rate on the bond, the contract rate will be 6% and the market rate is 8%. So a few things to note just with the data here. So we have the face amount and the issue price versus the market rate and also we have the market rate versus the contract rate. Which one of these should we use? What's the relevance of these? Note that different problems if we're talking about book problems may line up this data a little bit differently. They may ask it in different ways although it is related. In other words, the difference in the face amount and the difference in the issue price, the reason there is a difference there is due to the difference in the market rate and the rate on the bond, the contract rate. However most problems are going to have to lay out the face amount and the issue price on the issuance of the bond because it's more difficult to derive what the difference should be to try to figure out what the difference is. So note that if we're looking at a book problem and we're talking about the recording of a journal entry, they're probably going to give you the face amount and the issue price. And then another in a time value of money problem which we'll look at later. We talked about well if we had these two interest rates how can we decide what possibly would be the issue price based on this information. So they're related but in this problem they're giving us the face amount and the issue price. It's also useful to know what's on the bond versus what's kind of not on the bond meaning the bond has 240,000 on the face of the bond. That's part of the bond. The bond has a contract rate on the bond of 6%. The bond does not have the issue price. That's whatever we sell it for just like any other thing. If we're going to sell stocks or bonds we sell for whatever we can get. And so this happens to be what we can get. The market rate is not on the bond. That's again determining, helping us determine what the issue price is and it's just whatever the market is, whatever we can sell it for. So if we think about this then we obviously have a face amount of the bond 240 meaning we are going to pay back 240 at the end of the bond 15 years. The issue price is what we're going to receive for it. What we're going to get for it now. And notice of course that the issue price is less than the face amount of the bond and that we would think is a discount. That's going to be the result of the discount. We can derive this discount by doing a journal entry with these two numbers. I would go through our same process first, is cash affected? Our first question all the time. We're going to say yeah we're going to get money because we're issuing the bond. So we have cash as a debit balance. We need to make it go up. We're going to do the same thing to it so I'm going to right click and copy cash. We'll put that up top in C3, right click and paste 123. The amount of cash we're going to get is going to be the issue price not the face amount of the bond. So this is what we are actually going to receive for it. And then we're going to say well we're going to owe something back at the end. It's kind of like a loan but we owe the bond back. That's a liability just like if it was a loan and it's going to go up with a credit. So this is a debit balance. I mean it's a credit balance account like all liabilities. We're going to make it go up by doing the same thing to it another credit. So I'm going to right click and copy the bond payable. We'll put that in C4, right click and paste 123. I'm going to indent that, go into the home tab, alignment, increase indenting. We'll be in the credit side in E4 and we're going to put the face amount this time that we're going to pay back. This is what we're actually going to pay at the maturity of the bond. Then there will be the difference and the difference is going to be a debit here. Since I didn't make this in order, I'm going to build this in the way that it makes most sense. If we want to reorder putting all the debits on top, we can do that later or just leave it the way it is in order because that's probably more helpful to understand what happened and how it happened. So we're going to have to put the debit here. It's going to be the 240 minus the 198, 484. I'm going to use our negative sum or our plug formula in D5 instead of equals we're going to say negative SUM, double click the sum function and then I'm going to highlight those cells, those four cells, D3 colon E4 and that gives us the 41, 5, 16. That's going to be the difference. In this case, that's the discount. So we're going to take the discount then, discount on the bonds payable and we're going to right click and copy and that's going to be here in C5, right click and paste 1, 2, 3. So again, notice I put this debit on the bottom as kind of like the plug formula. We could rearrange this and put the debits on the top. It's not necessary for the posting of it, but if you want to make it look nicer with the debits on top, that would be good. However, if it helps to see it this way, then it might be worthwhile to keep it this way, meaning it might be helpful to say, this is what we did first, thought about cash, then we thought about the bonds payable and then the difference is the plug here, the discount. So when we think about the discount in this terms, obviously the discount just means the difference between the cash we're going to receive and the amount that we're going to end up paying at the end of the bond term and it was given to us through giving us face amount and the issue price. Let's post this out and see what we have. We've got cash first, cash up top. We're going to be in I3 equals, we're going to say this 198 is going to bring the debit balance up in the debit direction. That's why we're issuing the bond to get the cash. Then we're going to credit the account, the bonds payable. So here's bonds payable. Here's bonds payable. We're in I6 equals pointing to that 41,516, I'm sorry, pointing to that 240,000, increasing the zero up by 242,240 in the credit direction. And then we've got the discount on the bond. Here's the discount on the bond. We're in I7 equals, we're going to point to that 41,516 and enter. So if we see what happened here, then the bond went up by 240,000 and we have this discount. In this case, the discount is kind of like a contra account. It's a contra liability account because what we're saying here is the bonds on the book for 240, that's what we owe. But really, it's got a value to us of 198,484. If we take the carrying value of 198,484, if we subtract out the discount. So we're saying here's what we owe back. Here's what the discount is. Here's really the carrying value, the sum of the two. So whenever we have an account that's kind of like a contra account, it's really because it's linked to this account. It's related to the bonds payable account. Why is this here? Notice it's here because of the difference in interest rates. Although this problem, we didn't have to think about the interest rates to get to there. What's really happening is we're saying we're going to pay back 240,000 at the end of the bond. But we're not going to expect 240,000 today. Why not? Because we think the interest payments are different from the market enough that it's going to cause that difference. So we will accept less money today because the market rate, in other words, is higher than the rate that's stated on our bond, the interest that we will actually pay. So that means that we're going to have to get rid of this amount, this 41,516. And we'll do that by expensing it to interest. And the reason is not because we're going to be paying interest on it, but because this is really a result of that difference of the interest rates.


We're going to be looking at Luke chapter 9 verses 12 through 17. Actually, this is lessons we're going to be learning from the feeding of the 5,000. They're ministry lessons. And so there's something that at least one person in here might profit from. And hopefully some of you might too. As we look at this passage here in Luke chapter 9, allow me to read to you from verses 12 through 17. And we'll get into our study. It's the feeding of the 5,000 and lessons from the 5,000. Beginning at verse 12, reading to verse 17. When the day began to wear away, the twelve came and said to him, Send the multitude away that they may go into the surrounding towns and country and lodge and get provisions for we are in a deserted place here. But he said to them, you give them something to eat. And they said, we have no more than five loaves and two fish unless we go and buy food for all these people. For there were about 5,000 men. And he said to his disciples, make them sit down in groups of 50. And they did so and made them all sit down. Then he took the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven he blessed and broke them and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. So they all ate and were filled. And twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them. Now as we begin our study here, Jesus has taken his disciples to an area that's just north of the Sea of Galilee. It's a region called Bethsaida. When we go to Israel, there have been occasions when we have actually taken a trip up there about a mile or two or so from the north eastern, we'll say a portion of the Sea of Galilee. And that's where Jesus is. He's in a region that is attached to that particular area. And while he is there, there are great numbers of people who have begun to come to hear him. Remember verse 11 how it says here, when the multitudes knew it, they followed him? So Jesus is up in that area and there is a large group of people in a moment we're going to see just how large it really is. And this large multitude of people there have come to listen to him for a variety of reasons. Now who are these people? It's interesting that when you look at the feeding of the 5000, this is one of those works that Jesus performs that is actually given to us in all four Gospels. And so all you have to do is begin cross-referencing, beginning to look how Mark speaks concerning it and how Matthew does and how John does. And then you combine that with Luke and you get a good view of what's taking place here. And so John tells us that these people who are there actually are pilgrims who are coming to celebrate the Passover because in John chapter 6 verse 4, he tells us the Jewish Passover feast was near. And so that's who these people are. That's where this multitude is coming from. They're people who are on their way to Jerusalem to celebrate. Now as they're gathering together, one of the things I want to point out quickly is that they aren't seeking him as Messiah. There's no sincerity in their seeking him at all. As a matter of fact they're more interested in his signs and his wonders. They're more interested in his works than they are in his words. And how do we know that? Once again in chapter 6 verse 2 of John's Gospel it says a great multitude followed him because they saw his miracles which he did on those who were diseased. And so they're not coming necessarily to hear the words that he says that are going to bring them into a relationship with God so much as to see the works that he's doing and perhaps to have a work performed on them. Now when Jesus sees them, according to Matthew chapter 14 verse 14, he heals them but he also teaches them things concerning the kingdom of God. Why would he do that? Well the reason that he healed them and the reason that he would teach them is because he's a shepherd and he has a love for them and his love is manifested by words and works of compassion. Mark 634 says when Jesus landed and saw a large crowd he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things. So they were like sheep without a shepherd. According to Ezekiel 3412 as a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he's among his sheep that are scattered so will I seek out my sheep and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.  And so that's what he's been doing. He's been ministering to them. But now according to verse 12 the day began to wear away. It's now growing into evening. According to Matthew 1415 he uses the word, Matthew uses the word evening and that tells us what time it is because the Jews actually divided evening into two sections from three o'clock to six o'clock and then there was a second word that was used from six o'clock to nine o'clock. The word that is used actually tells us what time this takes place. So combining that we see that it says when the day began to wear away and Matthew telling us it was evening well it tells us it's between three o'clock and six o'clock in the afternoon so it's growing late and that's the whole point. So the disciples as they're there they notice these people they notice this multitude but they're having a different reaction than Jesus Christ. Jesus has been teaching them Jesus has been ministering to them Jesus has been healing them but the disciples as they're looking at these people have a different reaction what they want to do is they want them to get out of there. Now as they're speaking to him notice what they say in verse 12 they came to Jesus and they said to him send the multitude away that they may go into the surrounding towns and country and lodge and get provisions for we're in a deserted place here and so they say it's getting late here there are no supermarkets open around here we're in a desert and we ought to send them away in order that they might be able to buy some food. We're in a solitary place here they're going to need to go find some food and they're going to have to go to town in order to do that. Now there's a logic to that but part of the request may have been more selfish because Mark tells us in chapter 6 verse 31 that Jesus had said to them come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest for a while and so they're tired ministry takes up time and it takes up energy and they've been ministering for a long time and so they're supposed to be resting and recuperating they're sort of like on a hiatus on a vacation of some sort and here are all these people and they see them and they're just so many of them and it's just so taxing and tiring and so they walk up to Jesus and at first it sounds like they care you know they have to go into the surrounding towns and country and lodge get provisions we're in a deserted place and that makes sense but I think they're tired and they just want some rest. Now they're right about the conditions but Jesus is going to teach them about loving God, loving people and serving and in this passage Jesus is going to take his disciples through what I like to call the fundamentals of ministry and what he's about to do is communicate to them something that is very important he's going to teach them concerning the heart of ministry the heart of ministry the heart of ministry begins with a concern for people that's where all ministry begins and that's where all ministry ends perhaps I have some in this room tonight who have a desire to minister you have a sense of calling in your life well I want to share some things specifically with you hopefully this will apply to all of us in a general sense but it may apply in a specific sense to some in this room who have a desire to serve the Lord and you're going to see some things here as Jesus is training up these twelve you're going to see some things that he's going to be giving to them some very basic things that are very helpful as they serve him and like I said a moment ago the heart of ministry begins with a concern for people I'll never forget this one person who told me I love the ministry it's people I can't stand well I hate to say it but people are ministry that's what ministry is ministry isn't power ministry isn't possessions ministry is not position ministry is not simply preaching ministry is people and it's how you respond to them and what you can give to them and how you love them ministry begins and ends with the people and that's what they need to learn you see they're tired and I understand that God knows all of us who work and do anything that causes us to fatigue especially when you're in the occupation of ministering to people anybody who's in food services or retail you know how difficult people can be people can be real difficult and we all know that we are people we can be difficult those of us who are parents well we're experts at knowing what difficulty is you know our kids can be difficult we've been difficult to other people we know that but if you're a waitress you know how difficult people like me can be when you're serving us you know when you're selling clothes and all of that you know somebody comes in they insist that they wear a certain size and you know they haven't worn that even when they were a baby I mean you know come on now but anyway we know that working with people can be difficult ministry is working with people so what is ministry is it power to some people it is to some people being in the ministry means that I have power over people's lives it means that when I walk into the church and I'm the pastor that people will walk up to me and tremble because of how important I am is it position some people think it is because that gives to us perks it gives to us some things that we can do that other people can't do you know is it possessions sometimes people think that it is you know I work hard I should get a lot of money I should be able to spend it on whatever I want is it just preaching well I polish my craft I'm able to speak eloquently I use the right kind of proof text to develop it I ought to get paid for that there are a lot of people who misunderstand what ministry is ministry always boils down to people that's what it is it's caring for people loving people it's serving people it's first loving God it's loving God and out of the outflow of your relationship with God in ministry your love for God is an outflow to people you see it's easy for me to say I love God whom I have not seen it's more difficult to love a brother or a sister whom I have seen and so John would say listen how can you say that you love God whom you have not seen and yet you hate your brother whom you do see so the point he was simply making is this it's easy to mouth great words of how I love God but that love for God is intended to be the motivator for me to serve him serve people and serve the world and that's what God has called us to do as those who are Christians not just pastors and not just missionaries that's what God has called us all to do is to love him with all of our heart to love our neighbor as ourself that is the great commandment to love God and to love our neighbor as ourself upon those two hang all the law and the prophet Jesus said and see so ministry and serving God always begins with loving him and having a love for people and that's what the Lord Jesus Christ is going to teach this is ministry 101 these are foundations of service and that's what you're seeing here in the feeding of the 5,000 you see if these people are going to properly represent him they need to learn faith and they need to learn love because as I said a moment ago effective ministry begins with love for God and love for people because you cannot be in love with the ministry you must love those whom you minister to because that's what the Lord is all about if you take notes Ephesians chapter 5 verses 1 and 2 Paul said it this way he said be imitators of God therefore as dearly loved children and live a life of love just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God live a life of love as Christ loved us and gave his life up for us that's ministry now the disciples see the multitudes also yet they see them differently than did Jesus they see the people as problems there are too many people and we have inadequate supplies this is a deserted place the hour is late we need to send them away but that's not acceptable to Jesus Christ you see the Lord Jesus Christ desires to reach the world keep that in mind not just a few he wants to reach the world and he wants us to have a vision that is like his in John in chapter 4 verses 35 through 38 Jesus said do you not say four months more and then the harvest I tell you open your eyes and look at the fields they are ripe for harvest even now the reaper draws his wages even now the harvest he harvest the crop for eternal life so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together it's the same one sows and another reaps is true I sent you to reap what you have not worked for others have done the hard work and you have reaped the benefits of their laborer so four months and then comes the harvest he says look into the fields they are ready to be harvested right now look at the fields that God has given to us they are ready for harvest right now when I got saved few years ago now we were told you need to get into the word of God you need to learn to pray you need to have fellowship with like-minded individuals who love Jesus Christ because your associates, your friends are going to either provoke you to love the Lord or they are going to tear you away from him so you have to make some decisions you have to make a decision that if you are going to serve the Lord that you are going to love his word because when you love his word in his heart it is not a matter of me just thinking well I think God is like this when I read the Bible he tells me exactly what he is like and so that is how God communicates to us sometimes people think well if I go and I sit down and I cross my legs and I cross my eyes and arms and I eat granola and God will communicate to me and I don't think so it doesn't work that way people meditate on their navel they are not going to get close to God doing things like that what do you do? they told us they said read God's word because God's word communicates his heart to you and then learn to speak your heart to him in prayer so as you are reading through the Bible you are praying through the Bible because you will come to a passage that you may not understand or you will find a passage that has a blessing and you might find a passage that has an exhortation or another passage that has a warning or so many different things and as you are reading the Bible you say things like is that true? do you really mean that? is that possible? how can I do that? and so you are praying and you ask the Lord and you say God I would like to do that I see you do marvelous things we are looking right now at a miracle where Jesus feeds 5,000 men not including women and children conservative scholars say there could have been anywhere from 13,000 plus people there because it's not including the women and the kids it's just the men the men are being mentioned here 5,000 of them and they normally travel with their families so you have at least 13,000 probably 15,000 people that are being ministered to here and you read that and you say how does that work and what do you want me to learn from that? is this just some fantastic story and that's how I read the Bible I will be reading it and I will say what does that mean Lord and how does that work today because I believe that truth is timeless and what is applied 2,000 years ago is applicable today if there is a principle that you want me to learn from this and if I can apply it somehow Father show me how to do it so you read His Word and you pray and then you have friends around you who encourage you in that instead of the friends who are the Eeyours saying things like don't take that so seriously come on give me a break and I have to tell you in my young Christian life I had more than one friend who was like that more than one, oh you really shouldn't be witnessing man didn't you see how upset they got listen if I wouldn't have shared with my mom and my dad then who was going to share with them who was going to share with them they were in their 40s when I got saved my daddy was 43 years old and I was 40 rather my mom was 40 I was 20 I felt 40 I was 20 who was going to talk to my pop who was 43 years old and nobody to my knowledge for 43 years had told them about Jesus Christ so what they're going to do it now somebody's going to pop onto the scene and say Frank Rosales you need Jesus no it didn't work that way God said that's the field I gave to you that's where you're supposed to work I want to go on the mission field it begins at home it begins in your family it begins with your parents it begins with your brothers it begins at home it begins in your neighborhood oh I want to go to the mission field yeah you're qualified to if you've already seen what a mission field is because remember with me when the Holy Spirit fell upon the church they were to be witnesses of Jesus where in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and then to the uttermost parts of the earth he didn't say you will be witnesses to the uttermost parts he said you're going to be witnesses right there and that's why when the Holy Spirit fell on the day of Pentecost that's why they went outside that 120 who were there in that upper room and they immediately began to speak about the wonderful, magnificent works of God to the point that people began to hear and 3,000 people got saved because that's how it works guys keep that in mind keep that in mind there's a time for rejoicing there's a time for weeping and I've discovered he who goes forth weeping, bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again rejoicing bringing his sheaves with him I've discovered that when you weep over the lost, God uses you to reach the lost but when we get so tired of them when we start saying things like man there's so many people crowding us out here and they don't even have a right to be here have you ever stopped to consider for a moment that maybe the mission field has moved here and maybe that's the job that we have is to reach them for Jesus or are we so caught up saying, you know what I just don't like the way it is we need to send them all home well send them home with the gospel of Jesus Christ that the lives might be changed instead of getting so caught up saying my lifestyle's being interrupted how about reaching them and changing them I just believe that with all of my heart God has given us ample opportunities that we have to take but we're Americans aren't we we don't really like that Jesus teaches us that ministry begins for people and a concern for them and that's what he calls us to you see these multitudes are there and the disciples see them just like Jesus but they see them differently than Jesus does for them they're problems in Matthew chapter 9 verses 37 and 38 Jesus speaking to his disciples said the harvest truly is plentiful the laborers are few therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest there is so much work to do so we need to work together to reach these people you see Jesus' desire is to train his disciples to minister to multitudes and he's going to teach them three very basic lessons one he's going to reveal to them their inadequacy their inadequacy to meet the needs of people second he's going to show them that he is completely adequate to meet the needs and then third he's going to teach them that they work together with God in ministry and when they do so the needs will be met it's been said the sacred promises though in themselves most sure and precious are of no avail for the comfort and sustenance of the soul unless you grasp them by faith plead them in prayer expect them by hope and receive them with gratitude the Lord wants to do a work in us and all I want to do is encourage everyone in this room today just to ask the question why not me why not me why can't the Lord use you today why can't He what keeps Him from using you what makes you not usable and if you know there's something that makes me not usable then why keep that in your life why maintain that why hold on to that I've had various things in my life that I wanted to hold on to and the Lord finally said look at it it's either that or it's serving me you're serving that because no man can serve two masters you've got to make a choice which one you're going to serve so which is it going to be and for me part of my problem was my perceived liberties in Christ I thought well you know what I'm saved by grace I'm walking by grace I'm kept by grace I serve in grace and that allows my entire life and by the grace of God I can basically do whatever I desire to do and all as long as I'm not willfully and intentionally sinning against Him and so there were liberties that I pursued and thought were fine that I would continue in off and on over years to be honest with you that the Lord finally started dealing with me and I finally realized that well some things I can do and it's not like I can't do them I read my scriptures and Paul said all things are lawful unto me but not all things edify me and I'm not going to be brought into the bondage of any and I began to think that way and I started to think well what is it that I do that may not be quote-unquote wrong but isn't really helping me either and over the years that's what's happened I've begun to remove those layers from my life so that I can be more and more usable I encourage you to do the same what is it that the Lord wants you to do has God put something on your heart to do that you have yet to do because you're so busy doing something else I have seen people walk away from serving the Lord for things as silly as wanting to drink wanting to smoke or wanting a relationship with somebody or wanting to go out dance I mean the silliest most juvenile things keep us from serving the Lord they just keep us from serving the Lord with all of our heart because we want these things more than we want the Lord Jesus Christ well Jesus is teaching his disciples to minister to the multitudes because they're going to take this message to the world they're going to reach many so they need to learn that God is going to meet their every need every step of the way so first Jesus exposes their inadequacy now he does this by asking a question a question that he already has the answer for he doesn't really ask that question here the question is asked in John chapter 6 in John chapter 6 verses 5 and 6 it says when Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him he said to Philip where shall we buy bread for these people to eat but John goes on to say he asked this only to test him for he already had in mind what he was going to do so Philip you see these thousands of people and so I'm asking you a question where are we going to get the food for these people it's going to require quite a bit what are we going to do and so what he does is he exposes their inadequacy he makes it very clear that they're not able to meet this need and what they do is they ultimately check their resources because he tells them you give them something to eat so they walk through the crowd is what they're doing and they're checking to see what they're going to do to figure out the resources and according to Mark chapter 6 verses 37 and 38 he says you give them something to eat they said to him shall we go and buy 200 denarii worth of bread and give them something to eat he said to them how many loaves do you have go and see and when they found out they said five and two fish John 6 verse 8 says another of his disciples Andrew Simon Peter's brother spoke up here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish but how far will they go among so many we found somebody with a sack lunch and that's about it so what are we going to do well listen in ministry and matters of faith it is obviously important that we recognize our limitations what we do is we come to the end of our own resources and then we fall upon him for help and that is to be true in every aspect of our lives because we need to come to learn something a simple lesson without him I can do nothing and when I come to understand that without him I can do nothing that's the place where I can be like Paul and I can say but I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me Jesus said without me you can do nothing but Paul says with him I can do all things so you come to the end of yourself and you come to the end of your resources and you recognize your inadequacies and that is the place that he wants us first to be in so that we realize that whatever work occurs is causing him and not because of us why so that no flesh will glory in his sight so that I can't say that was my idea those were my efforts and that's the reason why it happened I organized it I did it through my own genius in 2nd Corinthians in chapter 12 verses 9 and 10 Paul speaking concerning his thorn in the flesh said this after he had prayed and asked God to remove it on three occasions he said I received my answer my grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me therefore I take pleasure in infirmities and reproaches in necessities in persecutions in distresses for Christ's sake for when I am weak then am I strong he says I take I take comfort in this I take actual pleasure in this because that's where I am becoming stronger is where I recognize my own weakness so one when you serve the Lord you're going to come face to face with your inadequacy it begins early and it continues through your entire walk with the Lord the day I got saved when the invitation came and there were 4,000 young people seated on the floor there at the Hollywood Palladium in LA and Arthur Blessed the evangelist says if you know that the Lord Jesus Christ is calling you stand to your feet and I remember being seated there on the carpet and I remember bowing my head and looking down at my feet and I remember praying and I remember saying something like I need you I need you God I need you that I can't stand up because you know I'm shy just like you just like you you know how it was, you guys remember what it was like if you were a student at one time and the teacher said to you can you come up and write on the chalkboard at that point did you guys like doing that did you say oh boy I didn't I hated that and when I was a kid I was in junior high school my mom and dad you know very thoughtful people planned ahead so they would buy clothes that I would grow into I had a pair of glasses that I was supposed to grow into they were so big I don't know if you guys remember Superfly or not but they were huge and my head was supposed to grow into them and never really did unless I grew seven feet tall I mean these were enormous glasses but I also had some jeans and I was supposed to someday gain some weight which unfortunately I did but at that time I was supposed to grow into them and so they were those jeans that you would just kind of pull the belt until it all bunched up all over and then you kind of would hem them up and so they had these big old cuffs and they were kind of like baggy so I would go into the bathroom and I would get tissue and I would fold it up and put it in my back pocket so I'd have a little junk in my trunk you know and man I mean and I was mister just like leave me alone you know just let me grow into these things and I can still remember in seventh grade my teacher saying come up in front of the class and right on this chalkboard and I would sit in the very back of the class and now you got to walk up that whole isle way and as you're walking you guys remember what it's like to be in seventh grade I mean you know guys saying things to you trying to trip you and pushing you as you're walking you don't want to do that and there I am standing and she gives me the chalk and I turn around and then Mike O'Hara and why do I remember him I hate him to this day Mike O'Hara and that was his name yells out look at how big his pants are and I almost died I was dying you know and I never forgot that I never forgot those kinds of things who wants to stand up in front of a group of people there were 25 junior hires who wants to stand up in front of people and talk or even be noticed really nobody does so there I am at the age of 20 and Arthur Blessed is saying stand up and there's 4,000 people my age and I'm telling the Lord I can't I can't do that and I remember saying that I remember saying you know I'm shy I'm shy you guys may not know that I'm shy I really am and say to me you know you bothered me because I saw you and you didn't talk to me very much other than say hello and then you said you're shy and now it makes sense when I'm in the pulpit I come alive when I'm out of the pulpit I'm drying paint I use it all up on Wednesday and Sunday I'm sorry that's why God gave me Marie how are you enjoy coffee I'm just that way I say in all of that because I think that some of you might identify with that listen when God grabs hold of your heart He changes you when you've got something to say now it's worth hearing you're willing to say it that's how it works and so you have to come to realize I'm inadequate I can't do this this is not my way I can't do this so He brings you to the point of inadequacy so when Arthur Blessed says stand up I say God I'm shy but that's when Arthur and I said but if somebody would stand with me I would stand and that's when Arthur Blessed said perhaps you're afraid to stand by yourself if somebody would stand with you would you stand and my friend George Adams who was seated next to me says I'll stand with you that's how I got saved that's how it worked in my case where the Lord's heard my prayer see I don't have a doubt that God hears prayer I have no doubt about that He heard that silent cry from my heart where I said specifically I cannot stand without somebody standing with me and this was what this amazes me because you who are here tonight were already in His plan 30 some years ago that day when I said I can't stand up you were already in His mind that you would be here hearing me tell you this story that blows my mind such thoughts are too wonderful for me they're beyond me but God intended that He said look it you can't do this but with me all things are possible that's absolutely true He's teaching them that and so the first thing He wants them to know you can't do it but secondly I can you are unable God is able what cannot be accomplished by the flesh is made possible by the Spirit Zechariah 4 6 says not by might nor by power but by my Spirit sayeth the Lord of hosts in Philippians 4 19 all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus in Ephesians 3 20 and 21 to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages world without end amen He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think first you can do nothing so embrace it why? when I'm weak I'm made strong second He wants them to know you cannot feed this multitude but with me you can you can't do it through your own resources you went out and you took a check and you came back and you said to me that would take 200 days of wages that's what 200 Danari means 200 days of wages to feed this multitude one meal to you but with me it's possible and so one recognize your limitation two recognize that God has no limitation and then three understand that you're going to work together with Him and accomplish that work according to 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 9 we are God's fellow workers you are God's field you are God's building but we are God's fellow workers and so what's taking place here well verse 14 it said there were about 5,000 men and he said to his disciples make them sit down in groups of 50 and they did so and made them all sit down then he took the five loaves and two fish and looking up to heaven he blessed and broke them and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude and they all ate and were filled and 12 baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them so Jesus has his disciples organize them so there's no mob, there's no stampede he's about to do some incredible thing what he does is he has them sit in groups there on the green grass and he breaks them down into units that you can actually minister to most effectively and so he does that because organization is part of how God works and then what he does is he takes those five loaves and he looks up to heaven and he blesses breaks them and gives those to his disciples so there are three lessons here first he gives thanks because that is recognizing where the miracle originates second he gives to his disciples so they partake with him in the work and then third the disciples give to others so they can learn how to practically serve so one your blessings come from heaven two God uses you things so that you keep them to yourself you take those things he gives you and you bless others with it that's how it works and so they're learning to do this they're learning that with God all things are possible and that's how it's working there I don't know how it works whether he just keeps handing them things out of this basket or whatever but whatever it is he keeps handing them and they do take it and they do feed all of these people and the entire multitude is not only fed but they are gutted according to verse 17 they all ate and were filled and 12 baskets of leftover fragments were taken up they were filled to overflowing that reminds us that God is extremely gracious even as the Psalmist in Psalm 23.5 says my cup overflows and they gather up the fragments because they don't want to take God's blessings for granted and then they carry the food with them because it serves as a reminder of what God had just done and what you find here is you find that they were all satisfied because there was enough bread for everyone which awakens us to realize that Jesus who is the bread from heaven is sufficient to satisfy every person according to John 6.35 Jesus said I'm the bread of life he who comes to me will never go hungry he who believes in me will never be thirsty when I got saved people started immediately it's amazing how this works trying to bring me into their little group whether it was you know Jehovah's Witnesses or some other way of thinking they started witnessing to me trying to draw me away I started encountering other people with religious beliefs self-realization fellowship Buddhism and as I spoke to them and learned some of the things that they believed there was always an invitation for me to leave Jesus Christ and follow after their guru their master there was always an invitation to do that always you know follow after this and I would say and I still do why would I want to follow you I remember I was speaking to some young missionaries from the Mormon church and as we were speaking on one occasion I said what do you have to offer me that I don't already have they said and I told them I said in Jesus Christ I have eternal life my sins are forgiven the power of the Holy Spirit heaven has been made available to me I've got blessings that have been given to me by the the spirit and power of God what do you have to offer me that he hasn't already given to me and their response is we have the priesthood I'll never forget that we have the priesthood I said I have the high priest Jesus Christ I don't need your priesthood I've already got the high priest I've got what I need what do you have to offer me that he hasn't already given to me you see I didn't come to Jesus Christ to try Buddha out I didn't come to Jesus to try out Mohammed well Jesus is pretty cool let's try Mohammed for a while it didn't work that way man I cut and run I went straight to him I said this is where it's at and this is where I stay and I've been doing that for a long time now and he's treated me fine all of these years and none of those other people could do the same Jesus Christ he's the only one who died and rose again you can go wherever you want you can find somewhere the bones of Mohammed because they do exist somewhere on this planet and Buddha's due too and so do Krishna's if he even existed but Jesus Christ he resurrected man he's in heaven and he sits at the right hand of the father and he intercedes on my behalf that's why I follow him I don't need anybody else I don't and neither do you and neither do you all he wants to do in this passage as I see it is to teach us you can't I can together we will


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The Commission of Works, rural roads in Delta State, Solomon, has appealed to voters to see the project done by Dr. Faio Kowa's administration for the good of Delta State, saying the projects can be seen across the 25 local government areas of the state. The Commissioner, Solomon Goley, made this statement in an interview with our correspondent in Asaba. The state's capital. He said that door-to-election times are closed, where politicians make promises that this will not come to pass. Governor Faio Kowa is an exception, having refueled his promises. The Commission of Works, rural roads in Delta State, Solomon, has appealed to voters to see the project done by Dr. Faio Kowa's administration for the good of Delta State. They are not people that are here, they are physical people that you can see, even all communities in the state feel the effect of Dr. Faio Kowa's leadership in terms of road construction, education, health among orders. There is virtually no local government that don't feel the presence of Dr. Faio Kowa in terms of road construction. And virtually all the local government, the eight local governments, they have had to fight for that two years or something like that. They are a good project. Completed and ongoing. And as I'm talking to you about inter-definition, very strong. And that's why the emphasis is on proper and effective supervision for now. So I just want to assure you that if I let go, I don't do well in the data-selector and district, which are also from there, a part of data-selector and district. Thank you very much.


About 2,000 Azov-style defenders still in Russian captivity. Over the year, Ukraine has managed to return about 500 Azov-style defenders home, while about 2,000 more are in Russian captivity. Natalka Zaritska, head of the NGO Council of Wives and Mothers, Women of Steel, said this at a briefing dedicated to the one-year anniversary of the withdrawal from Azov-style steelworks. Despite all efforts, only 20% of the defenders who stood to the death until they received an order from the command to lay down their arms and save their lives were able to return over the past 12 months. Only the defenders of Azov-style received such an order during the war. According to information from open sources, fulfilling the order, about 2,500 defenders left the territory of the plant. Over the year, about 500 defenders were returned.  Zaritska said she stressed that the service members are tortured and starved in captivity. Last September, there was a big exchange of Azov-style defenders. Service members who had been in captivity for four months returned. Everyone is aware of the condition in which they returned. They lost 40kg of weight, on average, got their kidneys lowered, spines broken, knees injured, muscles broken, sight, hearing, teeth lost, psychological trauma acquired, Zaritska said. According to her on May 6, this year, 45 more Azov-style defenders were brought back and their people, who were healthy and strong a year ago, now lost their health forever.