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Roving Periscope: Over 900 Kuki infiltrators from Myanmar may reignite the Christian militancy in the Northeast

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Four months after the then Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed hinted at a ‘Western’ conspiracy to potentially cobble together a new Christian nation from the adjoining areas of Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar in the Northeastern region, her fears may be coming true with the reported infiltration of over 900 heavily-armed […]

Semiconductors: President Biden, and PM Modi announce plans for a new plant in India

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The USA and India will work together on setting up a semiconductor fabrication plant in the South Asian nation, giving a boost to visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to bolster chip manufacturing in the country. The proposed plant will make infrared, gallium nitride, and silicon-carbide semiconductors, according to a White […]

Roving Periscope: GTRI junks Trump’s claims, says India no “tariff abuser”

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: On the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled US visit from September 21 to 23—where Donald Trump says he will meet the Indian leader, a “fantastic man”—a top research body has refuted the former President’s claims that India is a “tariff abuser.” Earlier this week, while campaigning in Michigan for […]

Terror: FATF applauds India, cautions against threats from within and without

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Global anti-money laundering and terror financing watchdog, Financial Action Task Force (FATF), on Thursday, said the South Asian nation’s systems are “effective” but “major improvements” are also required to strengthen prosecution in these cases. The much-awaited, 368-page-long mutual evaluation report on India was released after the assessment was adopted by the […]

Khalistan: In the Pannun case, the US court’s “unwarranted” notice to India

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after the US-Canadian citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who leads the so-called “Sikhs For Justice” (SFJ) outfit, applauded visiting Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his remarks on the Indian Sikhs, a US court on Wednesday issued summons to India in a “plot to murder” the Khalistani secessionist, designated as a terrorist. […]

Economy: US Fed rate cut may have muted impact on India, says CEA Nageswaran

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The impact of the US Federal Reserve’s rate cut might be muted in India as much of it was already priced in, Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran said on Thursday. The US Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday voted to cut the federal funds rate target range by 50 basis […]

Roving Periscope: MS chief warns of ‘foreign interference’ on eve of US polls

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid this year’s Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had, in a TV interview, disclosed that some ‘foreigners’ were not only ‘interested’ in the Indian parliamentary elections but also ‘interfering’ in it. Now, Microsoft Corporation’s President Brad Smith has warned of possible meddling by foreign state actors in the final […]

Lebanon terror: Israel’s Mossad planted 3 gm of explosives in each pager, says report

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Although no person, institution, or country has yet claimed responsibility for the series of fresh terror attacks in Lebanon, some media reports suggested that Israel’s Mossad spy agency allegedly hid three grams of explosives inside hundreds of pagers ordered by the Iran-supported terror group Hezbollah months before Tuesday’s mass detonations. The […]

Roving Periscope: The UN accuses Myanmar’s junta of ‘mass killings, torture’

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The United Nations (UN) has accused China-supported Myanmar’s ruling military junta of killing thousands of civilians and subjecting many more to torture and neglect in prisons since the February 2021 coup, the media reported. Min Aung Hlaing, the Burmese army general, has ruled Myanmar as the chairman of the State Administration […]

The POTUS poll: Donald Trump says he will meet PM Modi in the US next week

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With less than 50 days remaining for the high-stakes presidential elections in the US, former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, will meet the visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week. The meeting between the two leaders, unreported until Trump’s announcement at an event on Tuesday in Flint, Michigan, highlights […]
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