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Roving Periscope: US police arrest hundreds, clear varsity campuses of Gaza protesters

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after “occupying” Hamilton Hall at Columbia University and the authorities rejecting their demand for food and water, the so-called pro-Palestinian “students,” starved and exhausted, meekly cleared the way for New York police which stormed the premises on Wednesday and arrested many, the media reported. Hundreds of New York City […]

Pannun “murder plot”: India dismisses Washington Post’s report

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The External Affairs Ministry on Tuesday dismissed a report by the Washington Post, that claimed an Indian spy agency’s alleged involvement in a failed murder attempt against US-based Khalistani terrorist-separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. The newspaper even named a Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) official who it claimed orchestrated the purported murder […]

Roving Periscope: Pro-Palestinians ‘take over’ Columbia varsity hall in the US!

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It does not happen only in India—ahead of elections—when anarchists of all hues masquerade as “students,” pick up “causes” to hog the limelight, and spark chaos in educational institutions, their soft launchpad for a career in full-time politics. Just six months ahead of the presidential elections in the United States, also, […]

Economy: IMF positive on Asia growth prospects for India and China in 2024

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has boosted its growth forecast for Asia in 2024, reflecting a positive outlook for the region’s two largest economies—India and China—on the back of their governments’ stimuli. Asia is set to expand 4.5 percent this year from 2023, 0.3 percentage points higher than the October regional […]

EVs: Worried over falling sales, Musk’s Tesla sacks 2 more top officials; hundreds to follow

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk has dismissed two top officials and plans to sack hundreds of employees working under them because of dwindling sales of electric cars and the pace of job cuts globally, the media reported on Tuesday. At the end of 2023, Tesla had 140,473 employees globally. Those sacked […]

COVID-19: China expels from Parliament its top vaccine scientist for ‘graft’

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) has expelled the country’s top scientist Yang Xiaoming, who developed the first inactivated COVID-19 vaccine at the height of the pandemic in 2020, from Parliament for alleged corruption. Yang Xiaoming, the chairman of China National Pharmaceutical Group’s vaccine subsidiary China National Biotec Group (CNBG), has been […]

Economy: Without PM Modi’s vision, India won’t be the third-largest economy, says Nirmala

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said India emerging as the third-largest world economy is not an “arithmetic inevitability” but requires sound efforts and a visionary leader like Prime Minister Narendra Modi to accomplish it. Commenting on Former FM P. Chidambaram’s recent claim that India would, anyway, become the third-largest economy […]

Roving Periscope: Ex-RBI chief Rajan opposes inheritance and wealth taxes

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While the Indian National Congress’s election manifesto hinted at redistribution of wealth and its overseas arm chief Sam Pitroda has favored levying of inheritance tax—which has spiced up the ongoing campaign for the Lok Sabha campaign–former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan has opposed this idea. In some countries […]

The US elections: Despite the assurance, China seeks to “influence and interfere”

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that America has seen “evidence” of Chinese attempts to “influence and arguably interfere” with the upcoming Presidential elections in America—despite Chinese President Xi Jinping’s earlier commitment not to do so. He made these comments in an interview with CNN on Friday while […]

Roving Periscope: ‘You can’t be a CEO in the US if you aren’t an Indian!’

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: More than 20 experts of Indian origin, who studied in the US, are now heading billion-dollar corporations in America, some of them leading the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Starbucks. The nearly 4-million-strong Indian-American community is among the most influential ones in America and both the principal political parties—the Democrats, and […]
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