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Roving Periscope: Pakistan court eases the way for Nawaz’s return from self-exile

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Following an amended law, a Pakistani court’s fresh ruling has eased the way for former Prime Minister Mohammed Nawaz Sharif’s return from self-exile and to lead his political outfit Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in the General Elections to the National Assembly due later this year. The PML-N said its supremo […]

Roving Periscope: Now, Putin is hoisted by his own petard—the Wagner militia

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: It was waiting to happen in Russia also which did not pay heed to what she said 12 years ago. As the then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Pakistan in 2011: “If you have snakes in your backyard, they won’t bite only neighbors.” President Vladimir Putin, who reportedly […]

Modi in Egypt: India may invest in Suez Canal Economic Zone

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who reached Cairo on Saturday, is likely to discuss India’s possible investments in the Suez Canal Economic Zone, where the African nation plans to offer land for Indian companies to set up their units. PM Modi’s two-day State Visit to Egypt at the invitation of President […]

Day 4: Google, and Amazon to invest $25 bn in India

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Search engine behemoth Google will invest USD 10 billion in India’s digitization fund, while e-commerce giant Amazon plans to invest another USD 15 billion in the country, the media reported on Saturday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interaction with the CEOs of global companies. Announcing fresh investments, Google’s CEO Sunder […]

Day 3: Unlike China, India shares a ‘democratic character’ with the US, says Biden

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Standing next to visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House on Thursday, US President Joe Biden defended calling his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping a “dictator” recently and characterized the American relationship with the Indian PM as different from the one with the Chinese leader because India shares the same “democratic […]

Day 3: The US-India partnership a defining moment in the 21st century, says PM Modi

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Addressing a joint session of the US Congress for a second time since he came to power in India in 2014, and amid at least 15 applauses, standing ovations, and lawmakers lining up for his autograph after the event, visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that the US-India […]

Day 3: Key takeaways from PM Modi’s landmark US visit—defense, technology, space cooperation

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: If the UPA government, led by Dr. Manmohan Singh, had pushed India into the US orbit after the 2008 nuclear deal, despite the Left’s Opposition, the landmark State Visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to America has firmed up multiple deals that would propel New Delhi to new heights in […]

Day 2: PM Modi gifts a Made in India diamond to First Lady Jill Biden

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: During his meeting with President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden at the White House on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted, among other things, a Made in India, laboratory-grown Green Diamond to the US First Lady, the media reported. According to the Prime Minister’s office, the gift is […]

Day 2: India to sign Artemis Accord, send a joint mission to ISS, says WH

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: On the second day of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first State Visit to the US, the White House said on Thursday that India has decided to join the Artemis Accords, which brings like-minded countries together on civil space exploration, and NASA and ISRO have agreed to a joint mission to […]

Day 2: GE+HAL to make Tejas engines; INDUS X launched for defense, technology cooperation

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: General Electric’s subsidiary GE Aerospace and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd will jointly produce fighter jet engines for the Indian Air Force (IAF)’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Mk-II, popularly known as Tejas, India’s indigenously-developed, single-engine, fourth-generation, high-agility, multirole, supersonic light combat aircraft. In a landmark announcement, GE Aerospace said this on Thursday […]
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