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Roving Periscope: Despite irritants, Canada softens, India resumes e-visas

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The growing proximity in the last few years between India and the West, especially the US, prompted the global anti-India lobby to fire on all cylinders: it relentlessly planted and amplified anti-Hindu stories in the obliging media, resuscitated the comatose Khalistani activists within and without, reactivated the Pakistan-based Islamist terror […]

COVID-19: After 24 deaths, and 209 critical cases in October 2024, WHO asks China for details

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: As China recorded 24 deaths and 209 severe cases of ‘pneumonia’ last month, the WHO, fearing a new spike in COVID-19 infections this winter, has asked Beijing to come clean and provide details. China’s respiratory disease experts have warned of an uptick in COVID-19 infections in the winter, urging the […]

An Incomplete Life: Gautam’s separation from his wife erases $180 mn at Raymond

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: This is also a family matter. When a family collapses, the business it runs may also follow. India’s business legend Vijaypat Singhania, once synonymous with his company Raymond’s tagline “The Complete Man”, penned his 2021 autobiography “An Incomplete Life”, after his very public spat with billionaire son Gautam Singhania. The […]

Challenges: RBI chief Das cautions about uncertain times ahead

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Warning that a ‘deadly mix’ of challenges could put policymakers to the test and that new risks keep emerging, Reserve Bank of India (CBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Wednesday cautioned the financial sector to avoid all kinds of exuberance. Addressing an annual banking conference, organized by FICCI and the Indian […]

Immigration: Indians third largest “illegal” immigrants in the US, says Pew Research

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Not only have nearly eight lakh Indians officially renounced their citizenship since 2018, but the number of illegal immigrants from India to other countries, particularly to the West, is also growing steadily. New research has revealed that Indians form the third-largest illegal immigrant population in the United States. According to […]

Roving Periscope: Israel and Hamas to pause the Gaza war for 4 days from Thursday

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Six weeks after the Hamas invasion of Israel, the death of nearly 14,000 people, and wanton destruction later, the Jewish state and the Sunni terror outfit of the Palestinian extremists, have decided to pause their bloody conflict for four days—possibly from Thursday morning–to exchange prisoners and hostages, and allow more […]

Technology: Finally, Sam Altman to return as OpenAI’s CEO

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The storm in the coffee mug lasted barely four days. After Microsoft’s open offer, shareholders’ threat to sue the board, and employees’ rebellion, OpenAI has decided to bring Sam Altman back as its CEO, and said the company’s new board will be chaired by Bret Taylor and include Larry Summers […]

U.S.-India Defense Partnership is Now at an All-time High: U.S. Senior Défense Official

Mumbai:  U.S.-India Defense Partnership is functioning at an all-time high said Rear Admiral Michael Baker, Senior Defense Official and Defense Attaché at the U.S. Embassy, New Delhi. Rear Admiral was speaking at a day-long workshop titled “Defense News Conclave: Stories of U.S.-India Defense and Security Partnership,” organized by the U.S. Department of State through the […]

Ghar Wapasi: After Pak crackdown, 400,000 Afghans return home—to face the Taliban

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With Pakistan’s crackdown on “undocumented” refugees, over 400,000 poverty-stricken Afghans—elders, women, and children included—have returned home in the last three weeks across the international border—to face the Taliban, starvation, and biting cold. The media, quoting Pakistani officials, said on Tuesday that the remaining 14 lakh Afghans, registered as refugees need […]

Future is Now: Argentina gets a ‘madman’ as new President!

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Argentina’s new President-elect, his followers claim, is a ‘madman’ who takes advice from his dogs! Not just this. He has even denounced Pope Francis, a native of Argentina, as an ‘imbecile’ and a ‘filthy leftist’. Notably, the Pope has no dearth of enemies in his predominantly Roman Catholic homeland and […]
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