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LS polls: Dr. Jaishankar slams the West, and its media, for dishing “gyan” to India

May 15, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi revealed that some foreign countries were not just influencing but trying to ‘interfere’ in India’s ongoing Lok Sabha polls, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hit out at the West and its media for dishing out unsolicited “gyan” to the world’s largest democracy. The Western countries […]

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Roving Periscope: “Narrow view,” EAM remarks after the US warning to India on Chabahar

May 15, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after the US warned India of a “potential risk of sanctions” in the wake of the India-Iran 10-year deal for running the Chabahar Port in the Gulf nation, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said this project will benefit the entire region and people should not take a “narrow view.” […]

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Trade war: President Biden sharply hikes US tariffs on many Chinese imports

May 15, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Intensifying his predecessor’s trade war against China, President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced steep tariff increases on several categories of Chinese imports including electric vehicles, computer chips, and medical products, risking an election-year standoff with Beijing in a bid to woo voters dissatisfied with his economic policies. Democrat President Biden will […]

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Over 35,000 deaths in Gaza: It’s no genocide, claims the US!

May 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Self-righteous and the world’s preacher-in-chief, the US does not believe a “genocide” is going on in the Gaza Strip where over 35,000 people have died in Israeli bombing since October 7, 2023, in its counter-offensive after Hamas terrorists invaded the Jewish state, killed nearly 1,200 Israelis, and fled with nearly 250 […]

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“Allow Israel to nuke Gaza”: US Senator Graham shocks the world!

May 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While US President Joe Biden is “withholding” the supply of some key weapons to Israel, which ignored it and invaded the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah bordering Egypt on Sunday to flush out Hamas terrorists, an American senator has shocked the world by saying Washington should allow Jerusalem to drop […]

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Disinvestment: Broke, Pakistan tries again to privatize all govt companies, except for strategic ones

May 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: What India did without much resistance after 1991, a nearly-bankrupt Pakistan is trying to do once again: selling off the most government-owned white elephants. Prime Minister Mohammed Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday that Pakistan will privatize all state-owned enterprises (SOEs), except strategic entities, thereby broadening the government’s initial plans to sell […]

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Roving Periscope: The US smells a rat in Chabahar, warns India of “sanctions”

May 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: No Democrat American President has probably turned as ‘anti-Indian’ within a few months as Joe Biden, 81, has done in 2024, the year for his re-election bid—although his administration is studded with nearly 300 Indian-Americans working at different levels of his government. Under pressure from the so-called Liberal-Democratic-Secular (LibDemSec) cabal at […]

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IIT Gandhinagar Collaborates with Adani Defence & Aerospace to Advance AI/ML in Defence Sector

May 13, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Gandhinagar: In a significant move to bolster innovation in defence technology, the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Adani Defence and Aerospace, a subsidiary of Adani Group, on May 13, 2024 to collaborate in areas of emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Large Language […]

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The Maldives: India extends a $50 mn lifeline to prevent it going the Lanka way

May 13, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Despite its bitter relations with the pro-China Maldives, India has extended a USD 50 million lifeline to the archipelago country in the Indian Ocean if only to rescue it from going the Sri Lanka way, because of its debt burden. The Maldives on Monday thanked India for extending vital budgetary support […]

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The Ukraine War: Putin replaces Russian defense minister with a technocrat

May 13, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after starting his fifth term, President Vladimir Putin on Sunday shuffled his defense and security team to remobilize Russia’s sagging economy for a long and intensified war in Ukraine against the West which, since it started on February 24, 2022, has not produced a decisive victory so far. According to […]