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CPEC: China and Pakistan vow to protect it from “detractors and adversaries”

June 7, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: China and Pakistan on Friday pledged to protect the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) from its “detractors and adversaries,” as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met his Chinese counterpart Li Qiang and assured Beijing of providing ‘complete security’ to Chinese personnel working on the USD 65 billion project. Without naming the “detractors and […]

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Nepal: PM Prachand recalls ambassadors from 11 countries, including India

June 7, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Weeks after changing his alliance partners in government, Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachand” has decided to recall Kathmandu’s ambassadors to 11 countries, including India. The Nepalese PM, whose Cabinet took this decision on Thursday, will attend the swearing-in ceremony of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for a third straight […]

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Roving Periscope: “Please marry, raise kids,” alarmed Japan urges its people

June 7, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While some countries fight overpopulation, Japan is so worried about its emptying schools and roads that it is set to officially launch an app to encourage young people to date, marry, and produce children. Rural areas are particularly affected by this aging and depopulation problem and hundreds of Japanese schools now […]

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Markets: Sensex, Nifty50 zoom after RBI, Modi-return sends positive signals

June 7, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Narendra Modi’s re-election to lead the NDA government for a third consecutive term, signaling political and economic stability and investors’ confidence, and the RBI keeping optimism about the economy alive, India’s benchmark equity indices zoomed back on Friday. The Reserve Bank of India also upped the real GDP growth projection […]

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Space: Sunita Williams makes history, pilots NASA’s Boeing spacecraft

June 6, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Indian-American astronaut Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams-piloted spacecraft, carrying her fellow NASA astronaut Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore, was launched on Wednesday toward the International Space Station (ISS) from the Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida, the USA, in a test flight that was earlier hit with multiple delays. “Let’s go, Calypso,” Sunita, whose parents […]

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Roving Periscope: After China, “India is the 2nd biggest threat,” claims Canada

June 6, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Canada on Thursday claimed that, after China, India is the second biggest threat to the North American nation’s “democracy.” Its claim came in the wake of the victory of two Khalistani militants—Amritpal Singh (from Khandoor Sahib LS constituency, Punjab) and Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa, son of former PM Indira Gandhi’s assassin Beant […]

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Clean energy: India to provide investment opportunities worth $500 bn by 2030

June 6, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India is offering investors massive opportunities worth more than USD 500 billion, particularly in the clean energy value chain including renewables, green hydrogen, and EVs, by 2030. Union Commerce Secretary Sunil Barthwal revealed this in Singapore during the two-day meeting of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) Clean Economy Investor […]

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UPI: Peru is the first S. American nation to adopt Indian instant payment tech

June 5, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Peru will soon become the first South American country to have a UPI-like instant payments system. The NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL), the global arm of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), on Wednesday signed a pact with Peru’s central bank to develop digital payments technology, the media reported. This […]

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Modi 3.0 hopes: Bulls return, as Sensex and Nifty50 recover with 2,300, and 735 pts

June 5, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With a third term of the Narendra Modi government likely to begin on June 8, and reformist Andhra leader N. Chandra Babu Naidu’s possible support to the NDA, the equity markets bounced back on Wednesday, trying to recover the unprecedented losses it suffered a day before. The benchmark S&P Sensex and […]

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Roving Periscope: World leaders congratulate PM Modi; China ready to do biz

June 5, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As world leaders congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his NDA winning a third consecutive term of five years in the just-concluded parliamentary elections, although with diminished strength, China remarked that it is “ready to work” with India. On Wednesday, PM Modi formally submitted his Cabinet’s resignation to President Draupadi Murmu, […]