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Pakistan: Terrorist outfits claim only 20% of 245 attacks in 3 months!

April 1, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Terrorism as a state-sponsored policy of Pakistan, introduced by military dictator General Ziaul-Haq in the 1980s to divert attention from the hanging of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, is now yielding results. Once terror-nursing was a ‘national industry’; now it’s also privatized, even as a cottage enterprise! Terrorism is a national industry in […]

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Roving Periscope: In the Pannun case, India forces the US to ‘backtrack’

April 1, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: America’s recent efforts to corner India in the Khalistani extremist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun case may have boomeranged, and Washington is now trying to control the potential damage amid indications that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s NDA government is set to return to power in June for a third straight term—while the fate […]

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Banking: Sector now profitable and credit growth up, says PM Modi

April 1, 2024 virendra pandit 0

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India’s banking sector has now become profitable and credit growth has been increasing because of the efforts of his government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Addressing an event to mark the 90th anniversary of the central bank, he said a lot of work will […]

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Pakistan: Without congratulating PM Shehbaz, Biden assures continuous support!

March 30, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi waited and waited in vain for years even for a telephonic call from the US Presidents—Donald Trump and Joe Biden—while he was Pakistan’s Prime Minister from 2018 to 2022. His successor, Mian Mohammed Shehbaz Sharif, is faring a little better. President Biden has written to him, assuring […]

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The US polls: Biden claims world leaders don’t want Trump to return!

March 30, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Making tall claims and promises spices up an election. But US President Joe Biden, 81, may have stolen a march on all others, including his rival Donald Trump, 77, as they face off to reclaim the White House in the November 2024 presidential elections. “Almost every world leader has told me […]

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Roving Periscope: “What gives you the right to lecture us,” an angry Guyana President rips BBC apart

March 30, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Much water has flown across the oceans and seas of the planet since colonialism ended with the 1997 British withdrawal from its last colony, Hong Kong. But the West, unable to shed its hangover and still riding its dead high horse, continues to treat the Third World with contempt. The holier-than-thou […]

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Diplomacy: Dr. Jaishankar meets his Ukrainian counterpart Kuleba

March 29, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid increasing efforts to end the ongoing, 25-month-long war between Russia and Ukraine, India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar had a crucial meeting on Friday with his visiting Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in the national capital. Kuleba’s visit comes amid efforts to seek a peaceful resolution to the over two-year-old Russia-Ukraine […]

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Technology: “Surpass AI,” PM Modi to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates

March 29, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Asserting that technology can play a major role in sectors such as agriculture, health, and education, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged Microsoft Inc. co-founder to encourage technologists to aim higher and surpass even Artificial Intelligence (AI) with greater innovation. In a 45-minute-long wide-ranging interaction, the two world leaders—one in […]

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Roving Periscope: Poll-clock ticking, under LLD pressure, the US harps on Kejriwal, again; adds Cong too

March 28, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Trying a second shot—and presumably the last—at the White House in November 2024, incumbent US President Joe Biden appears under extreme pressure from the liberal-left-democratic (LLD) cabal at home to take on India, whose Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “autograph” he had sought only last year. Biden, 81, is engaged in a […]

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Pakistan: As terrorists target their manpower, Chinese firms start leaving ‘friendly country’

March 28, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Pakistan failing to contain ongoing terrorist attacks on Chinese interests and citizens, China’s companies have started shutting shops in the troubled South Asian country that they once thought was their backyard. Terrorists of various hues—ranging from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTK) to the Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA)—have relentlessly targeted Chinese nationals […]