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Roving Periscope: Targeting China, Dr. Jaishankar says India and Japan to “re-globalize” world

March 7, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Thursday said the turbulence in India’s relationship with China amid the border standoff is a cause of concern as Beijing doesn’t observe written agreements with its neighbors, which raises a question on its intentions. He also said India and Japan are natural partners in a […]

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Self-goal: Wearing China’s debt trap, the Maldives inches closer to become Sri Lanka-II

March 6, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Enjoying the bliss of China’s debt traps and refusing to learn from Sri Lanka and the fate of its Rajapakse clan in 2022, the Maldives on Wednesday announced that it will not renew a hydrographic deal with New Delhi. The Maldives owed around 42% of its more than USD 3 billion […]

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Abortion: France, the largest Catholic nation, makes pregnancy termination a constitutional right

March 6, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Christian theology has taught the faithful—particularly over 1.3 billion Catholics—that abortion is an unpardonable sin. For centuries, the faithful have fought amongst themselves on this critical issue. Even now, the Republicans and the Democrats fight in the USA on whether abortion is a woman’s right. Now, France, the largest Catholic […]

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Racism: Taiwan minister apologizes for commenting on Indian migrants’ skin color

March 6, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Racism sits skin-deep all over the world and the color of one’s skin often looks controversial—to the onlooker. That is why Taiwan, with which India has only business relations—not diplomatic or political—realized its faux pas. Taiwan Labour Minister Hsu Ming-chun on Tuesday apologized for her controversial comments on the recruitment of […]

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Roving Periscope: Hanged ex-PM Bhutto didn’t get a fair trial, says Pakistan SC

March 6, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Indicative of the declining stranglehold of the Pakistan Army on the entire life of the South Asian country, its Supreme Court on Wednesday observed that ex-Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who was thrown out of power and then hanged by the military regime in 1979, did not get a fair trial […]

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The Gaza War: Hamas terrorists raped hostage Israeli women, says a UN team

March 5, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A United Nations team has found “clear and convincing” information that Israeli women hostages terror group Hamas took to Gaza after its October 7 invasion of the Jewish state were sexually abused. “There are reasonable grounds to believe that the sexual violation is ongoing,” Pramila Patten, Special Representative on Sexual Violence […]

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Technology: Google agrees to restore Indian apps on Play Store—for now

March 5, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pending a decision by the antitrust body Competition Commission of India (CCI), search engine behemoth Google on Tuesday agreed to reinstate all the delisted apps of Indian startup companies on its Play Store after a government intervention got the two sides talking to resolve a dispute over service fee payments. Union […]

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Pakistan: PM Modi congratulates Shehbaz Sharif

March 5, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the first response from India after the February 8 General Elections in Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratulated Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, a day after he took oath as the 27th Prime Minister of the South Asian nation facing an existential crisis on multiple fronts. In his very […]

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Roving Periscope: China ups defense budget, says it’s lower than America’s

March 5, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid rising tensions with most of its neighbors, China is set to boost its defense budget this year by 7.2 percent at 1.6 trillion yuan (USD 222 billion), the world’s second-highest after the United States. Releasing the latest budget estimates, Beijing also toughened language against Taiwan, dropping the words “peaceful reunification” […]

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Price rise: CMIE’s inflation projections lower than RBI’s

March 4, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Contrary to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s projections, the leading economic think tank, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), said on Monday the country’s inflation may decline for two years in a row. It is likely to fall to 4.3 percent in 2024-25 from 5.4 percent in 2023-24, which […]