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Economy: “If India grows at 8% until 2047, it can become a $55 trillion economy”

March 28, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Reforms being the key, the Indian economy can grow at 8 percent or more until 2024, according to Krishnamurthy Venkata Subramanian, Executive Director for India, International Monetary Fund (IMF). “And if India grows at 8 percent, it can become a USD 55 trillion economy by 2047.” The target of an 8 […]

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Judiciary: Six Pak HC judges seek judicial intervention against ISI’s ‘interference’

March 27, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It has been well-known for decades. Now, six judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) have sought intervention by the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) against alleged interference in the working of the judiciary by Pakistan’s dreaded and army-run espionage network called the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). In an unprecedented move, a March […]

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Thailand: PM Thavisin feels proud as Parliament nods same-sex marriage!

March 27, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With its Parliament legalizing it, the Buddhist-majority Kingdom of Thailand has become the first Southeast Asian nation—and the world’s 26th—to make same-sex marriages lawful. Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said he was “proud” after the approval of the bill. “The passing (of this draft law) in the Parliament today is a proud […]

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Roving Periscope: Kejriwal’s arrest exposes those whose ‘asset’ he is!

March 27, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It was known that the West’s liberal-left-democratic (LLD) cabal had, over the years, assiduously ‘promoted’ Arvind Kejriwal—who, in January 2014, famously pronounced himself as an “anarchist”—to prevent a rising India from cultivating a strong political leadership. Now his recent arrest in the liquor scam has exposed whose ‘asset’ he was! Remember, […]

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Espionage: The US and UK sanction China over cyberattacks

March 26, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: China has condemned the United States and the United Kingdom for imposing sanctions over alleged Chinese government-backed cyberattacks, calling the Western allies’ move an act of “political manipulation.” Washington and London on Monday announced a set of criminal charges and sanctions against seven Chinese hackers for allegedly conducting sweeping attacks on […]

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Pakistan: Suicide bomber kills five Chinese in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

March 26, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Launching their third anti-Chinese attack within a week, suspected Baloch terrorists killed five Chinese engineers and their Pakistani driver in an attack on their convoy in Bisham tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Shangla, the media reported on Tuesday. After the blast, the vehicle with the Chinese passengers fell into a gorge and […]

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Roving Periscope: In wealth-shift, Mumbai dislodges Beijing as Asia’s billionaire hub

March 26, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Wealth is power and when wealth shifts from one country or region to another, power also shifts. According to a Hurun Global Rich report, Mumbai overtook Beijing as Asia’s billionaire hub in 2023. India added 94 new billionaires last year, the most for any country worldwide after the USA. “Surpassing all […]

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The Maldives: Muizzu follows in the footsteps of Gotabaya Rajapaksa!

March 25, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After haranguing like China’s agent for a year and achieving all pro-Beijing goals in the last four months, the Maldives’ patently anti-Indian President Mohamed Muizzu has suddenly realized that he could become another Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and his island country the next Sri Lanka if he failed to woo New Delhi again, […]

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Roving Periscope: Despite US tip-off, and IS claim, Russia suspects Ukraine’s hand behind terror blast!

March 25, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The gulf of suspicion between Russia and the US is so deep that despite Washington tipping it off on March 7 about the impending March 23 terror attack, that killed nearly 140, and the reborn Islamic State (IS) outfit also claiming responsibility, Moscow suspects the West is trying to cover up […]

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Kejriwal’s arrest: India protests Germany’s ‘interference’ in judicial process

March 23, 2024 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Reacting to Germany’s “blatant inference” in the Indian judicial process, over Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest in an alleged corruption case, India on Saturday strongly protested against the European nation’s move soon after the Aam Admi Party (AAP) leader was sent to seven-day custody of the quasi-judicial Enforcement Directorate on […]