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Roving Periscope: “Genocide Joe” Biden slams ICC prosecutor’s plea for warrants against Bibi, others

May 21, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Calling the death of over 35,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as “no genocide”, Joe Biden on Monday slammed the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor’s plea for arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as the poll-bound US President called the move “shameful, outrageous.” Addressing a Jewish […]

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COVID-19: Alert in Singapore; ICMR junks BHU’s “study” of vaccine side effects

May 20, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: When COVID-19 is rearing its head again in Singapore, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has junked a purported “study” carried out by some Benares Hindu University (BHU) researchers who claimed the COVAXIN vaccine used in India created ‘side effects.’ According to the media reports, Singapore’s government is sounding the […]

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Wealth: Indian-British PM Rishi Sunak is richer than King Charles!

May 20, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Call it the law of karma, or the Rotation of the Wheel of Righteousness. In the 1770s, when the British started colonizing India, the South Asian country was said to be the wealthiest in the world, controlling a fifth of global trade. When the British left the subcontinent in 1947, India […]

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Taiwan: New Prez seeks peace with China; Beijing sanctions US cos

May 20, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Taiwan’s new President William Lai Ching-te, in his inaugural address on Monday, sought peace with China. In response, Beijing announced sanctions on leading US companies, like Boeing, for arms sales to Taiwan. Soon after being sworn in as the new President, Ching-te praised the self-governing island’s democracy and urged China to […]

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Roving Periscope: Iran heads to uncertain future as President Raisi dies in chopper crash

May 20, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid simmering conflict with Israel, tensions with the US and the Arabs, the killing of senior army generals, and a months-long women’s anti-clerical agitation, Iran on Monday headed toward an uncertain future as its President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian died in a helicopter crash in the dense fog […]

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Hypocrisy: After several self-goals, the US suddenly ‘praises’ Indian democracy!

May 18, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It’s election season even in the US and no party can afford to antagonize the powerful, 4-million-strong, Indian-American community. So, after threatening, warning, and condemning India on various counts—Russia, Khalistan, Canada, human rights, Iran, etc.– in the last few months under pressure from its Liberal-Democrat-Secular (LibDemSec) power brokers–the Biden Administration suddenly […]

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Roving Periscope: No ‘genocide’ in Gaza, Israel claims after 36,000 Palestinians’ deaths

May 18, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Israel on Friday defended its all-out military offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), asking judges to throw out a South African plea that urged the court to order the Jewish state to halt the operation in Rafah and withdraw from the Palestinian enclave. On […]

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“Brothers forever”: Presidents Putin and Xi cement their ties, again

May 17, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In February 2022, days before Russia invaded Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin attended the Olympic Games in Beijing, returned with a promise of “limitless friendship” with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, and ordered his armed forces to launch a “special military campaign” that has dragged on from his intended “48 hours” to […]

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Roving Periscope: Dubai shows why Pakistan is near-bankrupt

May 17, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nearly 17,165 Pakistanis, who fleeced their nation for decades and now own properties of over USD 12.5 billion in Dubai alone, can still rescue their nearly bankrupt country from its current financial morass if they demonstrate their patriotism, sell off their assets, and funnel that ill-gotten money back into the South […]

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Economy: The UN upwardly revises India’s 2024 growth projection to 6.9%

May 17, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The United Nations has revised upwards India’s growth projections for 2024, with the country’s economy now forecast to expand by 6.9 percent this year, mainly driven by strong public investment and resilient private consumption. The global body’s report “World Economic Situation and Prospects”, in mid-2024, released on Thursday, said, the Indian […]