Convention, felicitation should encourage Cooperate sector: Minister UT Khader
Felicitation to Dr M.N. Rajendra Kumar
Mangaluru, Jan 01: If considered the contributions of Sahakari Rathna Dr. M.N. Rajendra Kumar to the cooperative sector, he was eligible for felicitation and the convention and this should also encourage the cooperative sector, said Urban Development Minister UT Khader.
Releasing the invitation card on felicitation to Dr. M.N. Rajendra Kumar and convention of Navodaya Self Help Groups at the SCDCC Bank Auditorium here on Tuesday, he said that Rajendra Kumar had contributed a lot to strengthen the cooperative sector for the last 25 years and created a history. The district administration would cooperate with the organisers to conduct the programme, he said.
Rajendra Kumar has played a major role in ensuring security, financial assistance and profit to the customers, said MLA Vedavyas Kamath.
2 lakh people to be expected
It is expected that more than 2 lakh people would participate in the convention. On January 18, total 9,000 were expected to participate from Shivamogga and Uttara Kannada districts. Ministers, MPs, and former ministers would participate in the convention.
To mark the Silver Jubilee of the service of Dr MN Rajendra Kumar as the president of the district cooperative bank and the convention of Navodaya Self Help Groups at the Nehru Stadium in Mangaluru on January 19.
Dr D Veerendra Heggade would preside over the programme which will be inaugurated by Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. Procession, releasing of Vimehanthi memoir, inauguration of cooperative museum would be held, said Felicitation Committee president Ikala Bava Devi Prasad Shetty.
Committee honorary president former minister K Amarnath Shetty, working president Shashikumar Pai, office-bearers Raviraj Hegde, Bhaskar Kotian, Sadashiva Ullal, Savanur Sitarama Rai, SB Jayaraj Rai, Yashpal Suvarna, former MLA Padmanabha Kottari, Sarala Kanchan, Niranjan Bhavantabettu and others were present.
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Canada's top envoy to US will resign before review of free trade agreement
Toronto (AP): Canada's ambassador to the US for the last six years said Tuesday she's resigning next year as the two major trading partners plan to review the free trade agreement.
Ambassador Kirsten Hillman said in a letter it is the right time to put in place someone who will oversee talks about the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that is up review in 2026.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Hillman “prepared the foundations for Canada in the upcoming review" of the agreement.
Carney noted she's one of the longest-serving ambassadors to the United States in Canada's history.
Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sent Hillman to the embassy as deputy ambassador in 2017. She became the first woman to represent Canada as ambassador in the US in 2019.
Hillman helped lead the trade negotiations during US President Donald Trump's first term as deputy and as ambassador worked with US and Chinese officials to win the release of two Canadians detained in China.
Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Canada-US trade, and Hillman had been leading trade talks with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
US Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra said on social media that Hillman has been an “awesome and well-respected” contributor to the US-Canada relationship.
“I value your friendship and wish you all the best in your next adventure. You will be missed,” Hoekstra said.
Trump ended trade talks with Carney in October after the Ontario provincial government ran an anti-tariff advertisement in the US, which upset the US president. That followed a spring of acrimony, since abated, over Trump's insistence that Canada should become the 51st US state.
Asked this week when trade talks would resume, Trump said, “we'll see.”
Canada is one of the most trade-dependent countries in the world, and more than 75% of Canada's exports go to the US Most exports to the US are exempted by the USMCA trade agreement but that deal is up for review.
Carney aims to double non-US trade over the next decade.
About 60% of US crude oil imports are from Canada, and 85% of US electricity imports as well.
Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the US and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing in for national security.
