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Diplomacy: Dr. Jaishankar meets his Ukrainian counterpart Kuleba

March 29, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid increasing efforts to end the ongoing, 25-month-long war between Russia and Ukraine, India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar had a crucial meeting on Friday with his visiting Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in the national capital. Kuleba’s visit comes amid efforts to seek a peaceful resolution to the over two-year-old Russia-Ukraine […]

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Technology: “Surpass AI,” PM Modi to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates

March 29, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Asserting that technology can play a major role in sectors such as agriculture, health, and education, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged Microsoft Inc. co-founder to encourage technologists to aim higher and surpass even Artificial Intelligence (AI) with greater innovation. In a 45-minute-long wide-ranging interaction, the two world leaders—one in […]

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Roving Periscope: Poll-clock ticking, under LLD pressure, the US harps on Kejriwal, again; adds Cong too

March 28, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Trying a second shot—and presumably the last—at the White House in November 2024, incumbent US President Joe Biden appears under extreme pressure from the liberal-left-democratic (LLD) cabal at home to take on India, whose Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “autograph” he had sought only last year. Biden, 81, is engaged in a […]

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Pakistan: As terrorists target their manpower, Chinese firms start leaving ‘friendly country’

March 28, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Pakistan failing to contain ongoing terrorist attacks on Chinese interests and citizens, China’s companies have started shutting shops in the troubled South Asian country that they once thought was their backyard. Terrorists of various hues—ranging from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTK) to the Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA)—have relentlessly targeted Chinese nationals […]

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

March 28, 2024 virendra pandit

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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Adani’s copper unit in Mundra begins operations

March 28, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad, 28 March 2024: Kutch Copper, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Limited, commissioned the first unit of its greenfield copper refinery project at Mundra on Thursday by dispatching the maiden batch of cathodes to customers. This marks the Adani Portfolio’s debut in the metal industry. The successful progress of the greenfield unit showcases the Adani […]

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

March 27, 2024 virendra pandit

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

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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Adani Green operationalizes 180 MW solar power plant in Rajasthan

March 27, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad, 27 March 2024: Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL), India’s largest and one of the world’s leading renewable energy (RE) companies, has commissioned a 180 MW solar power plant at Devikot in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. The plant has a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI). The 180 MW solar […]

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Espionage: The US and UK sanction China over cyberattacks

March 26, 2024 virendra pandit

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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