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Heatwave: Abraham Lincoln’s wax statue melts in Washington!

June 26, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The iconic wax sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, America’s legendary 16th President (1861-65), who was assassinated, melted in the heatwave sweeping the US national capital Washington DC over the last weekend, the media reported on Wednesday. The six-foot-tall wax statue melted as the temperatures, which soared to over 37 degrees Centigrade, disfigured […]

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More than FDI: Indian diaspora remitted $107 billion in FY24

June 26, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Breaking their record of remitting USD 100 billion in 2022-23, the Indian diaspora remitted an unprecedented USD 107 billion to their families back home in FY24, the media reported. This is nearly double the combined total of USD 54 billion from foreign direct investments (FDI) and portfolio investments during the same […]

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America: “Admit more Chinese students for the humanities and Indians for sciences!”

June 25, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A top American diplomat said the US should welcome more students from China to study the humanities, and Indian students for sciences, noting that American universities are limiting Chinese students’ access to sensitive technology given security concerns. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said on Monday not enough Americans were studying […]

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Space: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams ‘stuck’ on the ISS for 2 weeks

June 25, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With NASA conducting additional reviews of the spacecraft’s technical issues, Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams’ return to Earth has been delayed by about two weeks, the media reported on Tuesday. Sunita Williams and her co-astronaut Butch Wilmore’s return to this planet has been postponed due to multiple technical issues. NASA will permit […]

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Roving Periscope: Under China’s pressure, Pak to ‘relaunch’ anti-terror drive

June 25, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nearly bankrupt and clueless, Pakistan will once again launch a new military operation to curb increasing “armed attacks” within the country, but this decision has come only because of the pressure from its ‘all-weather’ friend China which has refused to invest more funds until the Islamist country, infested with state-supported terror […]

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Media: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to plead ‘guilty’, and walk free

June 25, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who leaked America’s best-kept secrets over a decade ago causing sensation worldwide, will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the US Justice Department that will free him from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the […]

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Hajj pilgrims: 83% of the 1,300-plus dead were unregistered, say the Saudis

June 24, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Saudi Arabia on Sunday said that nearly 83 percent of the over 1,300 Muslim pilgrims who died during the Hajj pilgrimage due to intense heat, were unregistered and did not have official permits for the pilgrimage. “Regrettably, the number of mortalities reached 1,301, with 83 percent being unauthorized to perform Hajj […]

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Roving Periscope: Amid war with Ukraine, Russia struggles against terror attacks

June 24, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Twenty-eight months into the inconclusive war in Ukraine, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides and millions of people fleeing homes amid wanton destruction, Russia is now forced to deal with another crisis: rising ethnic and religious tensions leading to terrorist attacks. In the last three months […]

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Roving Periscope: “They return to India, and China, become billionaires,” says Trump

June 22, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After threatening to deport illegal immigrants en masse, former US President Donald John Trump, whose grandfather migrated from Germany to America over a century ago, has softened his stand on immigration, promising to give automatic Green Cards to foreign students who graduate from US colleges to prevent them from returning to […]

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NASSCOM: India’s DeepTech startups face fund crunch

June 22, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Although the number of India’s DeepTech startups surged significantly in 2023, funding dropped by 77 percent, according to the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM). The report, “India’s DeepTech Dawn: Forging Ahead”, drawn up by NASSCOM and global consulting firm Zinnov, highlighted the worrying trend of a funding winter, […]