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Roving Periscope: As British PM Sunak visits, Israel pauses, allows aid, and gives a long rope to Hamas

October 19, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: After pounding the Gaza Strip for nearly two weeks and amassing troops and weapons in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation, Israel might be giving a long rope to the Hamas terror group to make its next move, as Tel Aviv allowed limited aid from the Egyptian border to flow into the war-ravaged […]

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Too clever by half: Now, CPC warns cadres against poking their nose in private biz!

October 19, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: After going hammer and tongs against its many billionaires since 2021 and dragging down the world’s second-largest economy into the pit, the Communist Party of China (CPC) may have, belatedly, come to senses about the foolhardiness of digging its own foundations. Now, the CPC, led by President-for-Life Xi Jinping, has […]

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Make in India: Google to manufacture and roll out Pixel smartphones in 2024

October 19, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Three days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed with its CEO Sundar Pichai, Google said on Thursday it will manufacture and market the first India-made Pixel devices in 2024. These devices include Pixel 8 smartphones, the media reported. Rick Osterloh, who is Head of Devices, said during the ninth edition […]

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The Gaza inferno: The US ‘returns’ to the Middle East, warns Iran, Hezbollah…and others

October 18, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The bottom line of the 12-day-old Hamas-Israeli conflict is that the United States, which had in recent years gradually ‘abandoned’ the Middle East—prompting China to try its luck in March 2023 to fill the supposed vacuum—has returned in full force to the planet’s biggest geopolitical cauldron. “I want you to […]

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Roving Periscope: Hospital blast kills over 500 in Gaza; Biden’s Jordan meet with Arab leaders called off

October 18, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: After a mysterious blast, that killed over 500 people in a Gaza hospital overnight and Hamas and Israel blamed each other for, US President Joe Biden landed in Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning, surprised that his proposed meeting with Arab leaders in Jordan later in the day has been canceled […]

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Exports: India to export 1mt of rice, but extends ban on sugar outgo beyond Oct 31

October 18, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Following concerns expressed abroad over food insecurity in many countries in the wake of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, India has allowed the export of 10.34 lakh tons of non-basmati white rice to seven countries on a government-to-government (G2G) basis but has extended the ban on sugar exports beyond October 3. […]

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“Dear friend”: Russia’s Vladimir Putin meets with China’s Xi Jinping

October 17, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: A day before US President Joe Biden lands in Israel on Wednesday, his bete noire Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing, the media reported on Tuesday. The occasion was China’s Belt and Road Initiative Forum Summit which Putin is attending for a third time. […]

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Roving Periscope: President Biden to visit Israel, Jordan on Wednesday to contain Hamas inferno

October 17, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: With a grievously bruised Israel determined to annihilate Hamas, and level to the ground its stronghold Gaza Strip— and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s whirlwind shuttle diplomacy to prevent a conflagration in the Middle East yielding little, a worried US President Joe Biden is visiting the Jewish state on […]

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Economy: India to be among the top three soon, says PM Modi

October 17, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: India is poised soon to be among the three largest economies in the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. The day is not far when India will achieve this distinction, he said, adding that everyone was looking at the country in the hope that it would lead the […]

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Roving Periscope: “Our hands on the trigger,” Iran warns Israel as the US tries to douse Hamas fires

October 16, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: As the United States frantically tried to contain the fallout of the 10-day-old Hamas-Israeli war from spreading across the Middle East and beyond, Tehran warned Tel Aviv of escalation. “Our hands are on the trigger.” Amid the catastrophe-like situation, and spiraling death count beyond 4,000 on both sides, United Nations […]

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