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LS polls: NDA’s ‘poor’ performance washes out Rs. 40 lakh crore in Indian stocks

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after Indian and foreign investors enriched themselves with Rs. 12.68 lakh crore, expecting a bonanza for the economic reforms-friendly Narendra Modi government’s return to power for a third straight term, they lost more than thrice that amount within 24 hours! The ruling NDA’s less-than-expected performance in the just-concluded Lok […]

Roving Periscope: Amid anti-Semitic sentiments, a Jew elected the first woman President of Mexico

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid the ongoing Gaza War and an anti-Semitic campaign in the West, a Jewish woman, Claudia Sheinbaum, 61, a Nobel Prize winner, is ready to become Mexico’s first woman president, the media reported on Monday. In a landslide victory, she was elected on Sunday to the highest office. For months, the […]

Pole-vault: Pro-NDA exit polls pump up Indian stock market ahead of June 4 results

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With exit polls predicting a massive win for the BJP-led NDA in the Lok Sabha elections ahead of the June 4 results, and anticipating key economic reforms soon, investors gained over Rs 12.48 trillion from a sharp market rally in early trading on Monday. Following the huge rally in equities, the […]

Stinks: South Korea suspends peace deal with the North over trash balloons

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Annoyed with the ‘dirty tactics’ of its estranged sibling, South Korea announced on Monday to suspend a rapprochement deal with North Korea to punish it over its launching of trash-carrying balloons, even after the North said it would halt this campaign. In 2020, North Korea had accused the South of sending […]

South Africa: For the 1st time in 30 years, post-Mandela ANC may lose majority

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For the first time since 1994 when Nelson Mandela led South Africa into a post-Apartheid regime, his African National Congress (ANC) may be forced to form a national coalition government as partial election results put it well short of a majority. With over half of the votes counted across the country’s […]

Roving Periscope: America on the edge as ‘guilty’ Trump’s supporters threaten retribution

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Barely six months before the US votes to elect its 47th President, America on Friday appeared on the edge as a court found ‘frontrunner’ Republican Donald Trump guilty in a 2016 case and his supporters flooded social media with threats of violence and retribution, the media reported. The Democrats’s camp, campaigning […]

Gaza: Xi Jinping calls for a Middle East ‘peace conference’

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A week after threatening democracy in Taiwan and conducting its biggest military drill ever around the self-ruled island nation, China’s President-for-Life Xi Jinping on Thursday called for an ‘international peace conference’ in the Middle East which, he said, is ‘suffering tremendously’ amid the ongoing Gaza War. Addressing a Beijing Summit attended […]

Roving Periscope: China sitting on twin democratic volcanos of Taiwan and Hong Kong

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Since 1949, Communist China has been trying to crush democracy in its breakaway island territory, Taiwan, almost every week. It has also been attempting to sniff out democracy in Hong Kong, which the British returned to China in 1997 on the promise of retaining its democracy. It may now be sitting […]

Border clash: Iranian army kills 4 Pakistanis, injures two in Baluchistan

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A month after then-Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited Pakistan to “strengthen ties”, the two countries returned to blows as the Iranian army killed four Pakistanis and injured two in Baluchistan, the media reported on Thursday. The incident happened on Tuesday night when Iranian forces opened fire in the restive southwestern province […]

US Polls: If he wins the WH again, Trump may invite Musk as an advisor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: One of them is unpredictable. The other one is a maverick. They have often been at loggerheads. Six months ahead of the US presidential elections in November 2024, however, they may have come together, on the same page. Former United States President Donald Trump, a businessman-politician, is considering offering Tesla-X (ex-Twitter)-SpaceX […]
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