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Economy: India to surpass Japan in FY26, says Sanjeev Sanyal

May 16, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India is set to emerge as a USD 4 trillion economy in 2024-25 and surpass Japan by early next fiscal (FY26) to become the world’s fourth largest economy, Sanjeev Sanyal, a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), said on Thursday. A 7 percent economic growth rate […]

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LS polls: “PM Modi will return; hope Pak also gets a leader like him”

May 16, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Leading Pakistani-American media commentator and businessman Sajid Tarar has said that Narendra Modi is set to return a third time as the Prime Minister of India, and expressed the hope that Pakistan would also get a leader like him. The Baltimore-based Tarar said PM Modi is a strong leader who has […]

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Roving Periscope: “Indians lands on the Moon, but Pak kids die in the open gutter”

May 16, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the massive anti-Pakistan protests, total strike, and demand for merger with India in Pak-occupied Kashmir (PoK) entered the sixth day, a leading politician lamented in Islamabad that while Indian satellites were landing on the Moon, the Karachi children were dying in gutters. Syed Mustafa Kamal, a member of Pakistan’s National […]

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‘Contamination’: Britain tightens scrutiny of all Indian spice imports

May 16, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Millions of South Asians living in the United Kingdom may be deprived of some spices and condiments after London tightened scrutiny of all Indian spice imports in the wake of the controversies globally because of alleged ‘contamination.’ In the most stringent crackdown so far impacting all Indian spices, the UK’s Food […]

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LS polls: Dr. Jaishankar slams the West, and its media, for dishing “gyan” to India

May 15, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi revealed that some foreign countries were not just influencing but trying to ‘interfere’ in India’s ongoing Lok Sabha polls, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hit out at the West and its media for dishing out unsolicited “gyan” to the world’s largest democracy. The Western countries […]

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Roving Periscope: “Narrow view,” EAM remarks after the US warning to India on Chabahar

May 15, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after the US warned India of a “potential risk of sanctions” in the wake of the India-Iran 10-year deal for running the Chabahar Port in the Gulf nation, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said this project will benefit the entire region and people should not take a “narrow view.” […]

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Trade war: President Biden sharply hikes US tariffs on many Chinese imports

May 15, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Intensifying his predecessor’s trade war against China, President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced steep tariff increases on several categories of Chinese imports including electric vehicles, computer chips, and medical products, risking an election-year standoff with Beijing in a bid to woo voters dissatisfied with his economic policies. Democrat President Biden will […]

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Over 35,000 deaths in Gaza: It’s no genocide, claims the US!

May 14, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Self-righteous and the world’s preacher-in-chief, the US does not believe a “genocide” is going on in the Gaza Strip where over 35,000 people have died in Israeli bombing since October 7, 2023, in its counter-offensive after Hamas terrorists invaded the Jewish state, killed nearly 1,200 Israelis, and fled with nearly 250 […]

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“Allow Israel to nuke Gaza”: US Senator Graham shocks the world!

May 14, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While US President Joe Biden is “withholding” the supply of some key weapons to Israel, which ignored it and invaded the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah bordering Egypt on Sunday to flush out Hamas terrorists, an American senator has shocked the world by saying Washington should allow Jerusalem to drop […]

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Disinvestment: Broke, Pakistan tries again to privatize all govt companies, except for strategic ones

May 14, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: What India did without much resistance after 1991, a nearly-bankrupt Pakistan is trying to do once again: selling off the most government-owned white elephants. Prime Minister Mohammed Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday that Pakistan will privatize all state-owned enterprises (SOEs), except strategic entities, thereby broadening the government’s initial plans to sell […]