The latest change India has to take into account is the coming to power in the US of an unpredictable and narcissistic President, Mr Trump. During his recent visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, US President Donald Trump has muddied the waters, rather than bring clarity to an old problem. And the Israelis are sitting pretty, Benjamin Netanyahu presiding over the most right-wing government in its history. Why should India then fight shy of its close relationship with Israel, it is argued. With the death of their charismatic leader Yasser Arafat, who committed his share of mistakes, there has been no real successor. It has never been a level playing field for Palestinians because of the traditional bias in favour of Israel of the US establishment and legislators. He told me that if you ran across the breadth of his country, you could reach the other end in a few hours. The symbolism is in India proclaiming to the world that it has very close military and trade ties with a country celebrating 50 years of occupation of Palestinian land, usurping East Jerusalem and most of the West Bank and treating the Palestinian people as serfs.Mr Modi took out an insurance policy by inviting the leader of the toothless Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, to India last May. Gen. Hooda, making a facile comparison between India’s predicament in Kashmir with the brutal methods Israel uses to subdue Palestinians on their land.I had met Mr Netanyahu in Israel in January 1990 when he was a junior foreign minister on his way to climbing the ladder. India has moved on from there, with the Soviet Union broken up, the supreme moment for the US as the sole superpower, the building up of Indian military prowess and Mr Trump’s assumption of office giving a fillip to China’s race for superpower status.President Trump has aced the discussion by suggesting that he is for a one-state or two-state solution if the two parties agreed. And the longer Israelis wait to vacate occupied land and give Palestinians their freedom, the more painful will be the process. Israel has quietly pocketed East Jerusalem and usurped more and more land for Israeli settlements on occupied West Bank. D. wholesale DIN934 HEX NUTS donald trump.Much has changed since the disastrous 1967 war in which the Arab armies were routed. In other words, the post-1967 borders of Israel were indefensible.It is true that the Gulf monarchies have adjusted to the situation by conducting clandestine and not-so-clandestine relations with Israel while maintaining their pro-Palestinian rhetoric.Through a series of moves over the decades, including sham peace processes, Palestinians have been traditionally weakened and pushed to the wall.The Sangh Parivar is obsessed with one idea: the victorious Mughal and other Muslim invaders who have ruled India over centuries. It was this obsession that led to the regimen of khaki shorts (now mercifully changed to trousers) and the stick as a substitute for a gun, in its obligatory morning drills. And there is no dearth of Israel’s admirers: the former commander of the Northern Command, Lt. The only thing that worries Israelis is the prospect of Palestinians outnumbering Jews in the not-too-distant future.

In 2018, over Rs 80,000 crore was recovered from various corporate debtors, which had defaulted payments, under the IBC through various insolvency proceeding at the NCLT and the NCLAT, Ministry of Corporate Affair secretary Injeti Srinivas told PTI.In 2018, insolvency proceedings against some companies including Bhushan Steel, ElectroSteel Steel, Binani Cement were almost completed and the new management from their successful bidders — Tata Steel, Vedanta group and China heavy hex nuts Suppliers Aditya Birla-led UltraTech, respectively — have taken over the management control of the stressed assets."Most of the major cases pending before the NCLT are likely to be resolved and these debtors are likely to come into hands of successful bidders," he added.As per estimates, the IBC has helped address stressed assets worth approximately Rs 3 lakh crore — directly or indirectly — since the new law came into force in December 2016. "The estimated amount includes recoveries made through resolution plan and cases settled before admission by the NCLT," he added.Other major insolvency cases being handled by the NCLT and the NCLAT include RCom, Videocon group, Alok Industries, Lanco Infrateck, Jaypee Infratech, Jyoti Structures and ABG Shipyard.Plans are afoot to further strengthen the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) by increasing number of judges and benches and provide adequate infrastructure to fast-track the process, according to government officials.In 2019, the NCLT is expected to finalise corporate insolvency resolution process of several stressed assets through its 11 functional benches across India.The new year will not only test the mettle of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), but also of the NCLT and its appellate body NCLAT, as several high-profile cases need to be resolved — Essar Steel (involving over Rs 80,000 crore alone) and Bhushan Power & Steel (about Rs 45,000 crore due to its lenders) are just a few, experts said.Big Corporate houses including Arcelor Mittal, Tata Steel, Reliance, UltraTech Cement, UK-based Liberty Group, Vedanta group, Dalmia Bharat group were among the leading companies which had submitted their resolution plans to acquire the debt ridden firms. These cases would include Essar Steel, Bhushan Power & Steel, Videocon Group, Monnet Ispat, Amtek Auto, Ruchi Soya, Lanco Infratech, Jaypee Infratech among others.According to law firm Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Executive Partner Punit Dutt Tyagi, the new year is likely to "test the mettle of the IBC as well as of the NCLT and NCLAT". Tasked with a key job of helping recover unpaid corporate loans, the NCLT has helped resolve insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings involving more than Rs 80,000 crore in the year passing-by and the kitty is expected to swell beyond Rs 1 lakh crore in 2019 with several big-ticket default cases pending