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Roving Periscope: Against Pak Army—Imran, and Nawaz are on the same page!

May 29, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For the first time, and by a strange coincidence, two arch-political enemies—former Prime Ministers Mohammed Nawaz Sharif and Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi—find themselves on the same page, and against the once-powerful Pakistani Army who had foisted them in Islamabad and then orchestrated their ouster. In the space of a year or […]

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Markets: Ahead of June 4, Sensex, Nifty50 shed weight as S&P upgrades India

May 29, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Although S&P revised India’s outlook to ‘positive’ and maintained its ‘BBB-‘ rating on Wednesday, cautious stock markets shed some weight ahead of June 4 when results of the ongoing Lok Sabha election will be declared. The election campaign for the seventh and last phase of parliamentary elections will close on Thursday […]

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Economy: IMF ups Chinese growth to 5% in FY24, 4.5% in FY25

May 29, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has upgraded Chinese economic growth forecasts after its ‘strong’ results in the first quarter of this year, the media reported on Wednesday. According to the global lender, China’s economy will grow 5 percent this year, after a ‘strong’ first quarter, compared to the previous forecast of […]

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Defense: India-France to begin talks from May 30 for a fresh Rs.50k-cr Rafal-M deal

May 28, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Negotiations between India and France for a fresh deal worth Rs. 50,000 crore for the supply of 26 Rafale-M aircraft to the Indian Navy will begin on March 30, the media reported on Tuesday. France had submitted its response to India’s tender for buying 26 Rafale Marine jets for the Indian […]

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PNG landslide: India sanctions $ 1mn aid; PM Modi offers more help

May 28, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In a heartwarming gesture, an overwhelmed Papua New Guinea (PNG) Prime Minister James Marape famously touched Narendra Modi’s feet and hugged him on the first Indian Prime Minister’s arrival to the island nation in the Pacific Ocean near Australia in May 2023. Nearly a year later, PM Modi has offered all […]

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Next pandemic: “It’s absolutely inevitable,” warns top British scientist

May 28, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after Singapore reported FLiRT, a new variant of Omicron, the COVID-19 strain, a British scientist has warned that the next pandemic is “absolutely inevitable.” Stressing learning from the hard-won lessons of COVID-19, Sir Patrick Wallance, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the United Kingdom Government, cautioned, “We are not ready yet,” […]

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Full circle: Now Russia invites the Taliban to St. Petersberg economic forum

May 27, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the 1980s-90s, the US-aided Islamist fundamentalist groups had created the Taliban militia to evict the Soviet occupation forces from Afghanistan. Four decades on, Russia has invited the same Taliban to join an economic meeting in St. Petersberg next month. Since the Taliban seized power again in Kabul in August 2021 […]

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Roving Periscope: “Plot to carve out a Christian state,” says Sheikh Hasina

May 27, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed has dropped a geopolitical bombshell by stating that the West is “plotting to carve out a Christian state” out of Muslim-majority Bangladesh and Buddhist-dominant Myanmar, and referred to an offer from a “White man” in this regard, the media reported on Monday. Accusing the West—without […]

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Disaster: Mountain collapses, burying 2,000 alive in Papua New Guinea

May 27, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Papua New Guinea National Disaster Center said on Monday that last Friday past midnight’s massive landslide in a remote village in the northern part of the country buried over 2,000 people alive. “The landslide buried more than 2,000 people alive and caused major destruction to buildings, and food gardens and […]

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Roving Periscope: China flexes muscles against Taiwan, again—and returns!

May 25, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It was yet another and usual war rhetoric to put psychological pressure. Routine military exercises, threats, and then returning to bunkers. Somewhat like the Iran-Israel ‘war games.’ Taiwan, which said it detected 62 Chinese military aircraft and 27 navy ships in its latest ‘threats’ to the island nation in the last […]