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Warriors: As the war with Russia rages, 2,300 Indian students return to Ukraine

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid outcry from their worried parents, over 23,000 Indian students returned home when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Now, a tenth of them have returned to the war-torn nation which has faced wanton destruction in the last 16 months and is short on supplies of everything. After a […]

‘Reverse’ aging: All South Koreans are now younger by a year!

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: When do we become one year old? At birth? Or a year after birth? Unlike other countries, a South Korean child was, until now, deemed a year old the day he or she was born because of society’s traditional age counting practices. Not anymore. For, South Korea has now joined […]

Roving Periscope: After the failed Wagner mutiny, top Russian Generals ‘disappear’

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After the Wanger Group’s brief mutiny last weekend, some top generals of the Russian armed forces have dropped out of public view, the media reported on Thursday. As President Vladimir Putin, 70,  increasingly looked vulnerable after the biggest-ever challenge to his authority in nearly three decades, Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s top […]

Crossing the hurdles: India’s solid economic recovery despite global headwinds, says RBI

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Post-pandemic, the Indian economy has made a solid recovery despite global headwinds, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Wednesday. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said not only has the Indian economy made a solid recovery but it is among the fastest-growing large economies despite heightened uncertainties and formidable headwinds, […]

Business: Chinese firm TCL Electronics, in JV, to set up a Rs. 225 crore facility in Telangana

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: In this Age of Frenemies, business is business. So, amid the Sino-Indian geopolitical and geoeconomic maneuvres, a major Chinese electronics company, TCL Electronics Holding Ltd, has decided to set up an Rs. 225-crore facility to initially manufacture washing machines. The media reported on Wednesday that the company has entered into […]

Open secret: Finally, Putin admits Wagner Russia’s creation, funded

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Days after the Wagner Group’s short-lived mutiny, President Vladimir Putin has “revealed” what was already known to the world: that Russia raised and funded the private mercenary army of convicts which Moscow unofficially used in Libya, Syria, and other countries–until its ambitious chief revolted on Saturday last week and started […]

Roving Periscope: It was a “bioweapon,”—Covid ghost puts China on the mat, again

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Despite Covid-19 subsiding worldwide, the pandemic’s ghost refuses to go under: now, a Wuhan researcher has revealed that China engineered the pandemic to ‘purposely infect’ the people in the world. According to media reports on Wednesday, this shocking information was disclosed by Chao Shan in an interview in 2020. Jennifer […]

Roving Periscope: The Wagner Group’s mutiny jeopardizes Ukraine war, Putin’s position

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The coup failed but the ‘victor’ is weaker than ever. The short-lived insurrection by the Wagner Group on Saturday last week has jeopardized not only Russian plans to win the prolonged Ukraine war in the foreseeable future but also made President Vladimir Putin’s political position vulnerable for the first time […]

Gaslighted: After Sitharaman, former USCIRF chief also roasts ex-President Obama

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The unsolicited advice Barack Obama gave through the media to US President Joe Biden to rake up the ‘religious freedom question’ during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s just-concluded State Visit last week has landed the former US President in a soup within and without. Not only did Indian Finance Minister Nirmala […]

Friendship: The US-India ties among the ‘most consequential’ in the world, says POTUS

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Taking stock two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first State Visit concluded, US President Joe Biden hailed relations with India, saying the friendship between the two democracies is among the “most consequential in the world.” Taking to Twitter on Sunday, he said, “The friendship between the United States and […]
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