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US Ambassador visits Adani’s Khavda project site

July 19, 2024 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti visited Adani group’s Khavda renewable energy project – the largest in the world, in fresh signs of the conglomerate having moved past Hindenburg attack and winning new backing. “Inspired by my visit to the Khavda Renewal Energy Facility in Gujarat, where I learned about @AdaniGreen’s innovative projects […]

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US elections: Resisting calls to quit, ‘hard-lucky’ Biden, 82, down with COVID-19

July 18, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Gaffe-prone US President Joe Biden, who is fighting advanced aging symptoms and resisting intensifying pressure NOT to contest the November 5 elections against his predecessor-cum-potential successor Donald Trump, got the latest blow when doctors diagnosed him with COVID-19 on Wednesday and urged him to take rest. The incumbent President’s hopes of […]

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Adani Ports Mundra Achieves Multiple Milestones, Setting New Records

July 18, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (APSEZ), India’s leading commercial port operator, is proud to announce a series of remarkable achievements that underscore its commitment to excellence and operational efficiency. Historic Cargo Handling in Q1 FY25: Mundra Port continues to set new benchmarks, handling an impressive 51.2 million metric tonnes (MMT) of cargo in […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump’s MAGA White racists attack JD Vance’s “Hindu wife”

July 18, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Barely two days after Republican nominee Donald Trump picked a key former critic as his Vice-Presidential running mate, the fundamentalist Christian, far-right, and White racist brigade in the former President’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) umbrella has started attacking Usha Chilukuri, the Indian-origin wife of James David (JD) Vance, Senator from […]

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Ukraine: Startups developing a ‘robot army’ to fight against the Russian forces

July 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It looks straight from a science fiction movie. Losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the ongoing Russian invasion since February 2022, Ukraine, which is struggling with acute manpower shortages, is now creating an army of robots to take on the might of the Russian armed forces, the media […]

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Roving Periscope: Iran denies plot to assassinate Donald Trump

July 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Iran has rubbished claims in a section of the US media that it is planning to assassinate Donald Trump, who escaped a bid on his life in Pennsylvania on Saturday last week and was nominated on Tuesday as the Republican Party candidate against incumbent Democrat President Joe Biden before the November […]

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Pakistan: Army kills 10 terrorists who kill 8 soldiers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

July 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Call it the Law of Karma. What goes around, comes around. While Pakistan is pushing terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir to kill the Indian soldiers, its own army is being attacked by terrorists in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. At least eight soldiers of the Pakistan Army and 10 terrorists were killed […]

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Economy: After the IMF, ADB keeps India’s GDP growth at 7% in FY25

July 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected India’s GDP growth for 2024-25 at 7 percent, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) also on Wednesday kept the country’s growth projection unchanged at 7 percent, citing robust expansion in the industrial sector and strong demand in construction led by housing. “The stronger-than-expected fiscal position […]

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US polls: “I’m old but only 3 years older than Trump,” says fast-aging President Biden

July 16, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Trying to catch up with an energetic Donald Trump, who bounced back into the poll arena barely hours after surviving an assassination bid last Saturday, President Joe Biden tried to justify his insistence to contest the November polls—despite several Democrat leaders’ strong opposition—saying that “I am only 3 years older than […]

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Sirius Digitech, backed by Adani & Sirius International Holding announces the acquisition of cloud platform company Coredge.io

July 16, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad, India, 16 July 2024: Sirius Digitech Limited, a joint venture between the Adani Group and Sirius International Holding (Sirius), a subsidiary of International Holding Company (IHC), announces the signing of a binding agreements for the acquisition of Coredge.io Private Limited, a cutting-edge sovereign AI and cloud platform company. “As nations increasingly prioritise data security, […]