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Ukraine: Now, Russia punishes own soldiers, deploys them to die like ‘meat’

October 3, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Can a country engaged in a 19-month-long war with a neighbor, force its own hapless soldiers to die like “meat” on the war front? This is what is happening in a replay of what Communist dictator Josef Stalin did in Russia during the Second World War in the 1940s. Now, […]

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Media: With raids on China-linked outlets in India, focus back on ‘American Singham’

October 3, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the Delhi Police raiding homes of some activist-turned-journalists linked with an allegedly Chinese-funded news outlet, and other locations on Tuesday, the focus is back on a China-based American millionaire, Neville Roy Singham, who is accused of managing anti-Indian activities on diverse fronts, including the media. The Delhi Police Special […]

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Roving Periscope: India tightens screws, asks Canada to pull back 41 diplomats by Oct 10

October 3, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After waiting for Canada to take concrete steps against the Khalistanis, criminals, and drug peddlers it has sheltered over the years, India warned it again on Tuesday and asked the North American country to pull out 41 of its diplomats deployed in the country by October 10, the media reported. […]

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Good news: Joblessness lowest in one year, says CMIE

October 2, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Contrary to the Opposition’s claims of rising unemployment, India’s joblessness rate dropped to a one-year low in September as unemployment in rural areas fell despite weak monsoon rains this year, the media reported on Monday. The overall joblessness rate slid to 7.09 percent in September, from 8.10 percent in August, […]

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The Nobel Prize 2023: Kariko and Weissman share it in physiology/medicine

October 2, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2023 has been awarded to Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States for their pioneering work to develop vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic. The two scientists, who had been tipped as favorites, were honored “for their discoveries concerning […]

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Make in India: For PM Modi’s tech push, Google starts making Chromebook laptops

October 2, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Partnering with Hewlett Packard (HP) Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Monday started manufacturing its Chromebook laptops in India to push Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of an Atmanirbhar Bharat (Self-Reliant India). Over the last few years, India has been expanding its footprint in electronics manufacturing as different tech companies started […]

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Mumbai is now 400 KV national grid Integrated

October 2, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad, 2 October 2023: Kharghar Vikhroli Transmission Limited (KVTL), which will enable additional power to be brought into Mumbai and thus enable in meeting the city’s growing and future electricity demand, is commissioned. Built by Adani Energy Solutions Limited (earlier known as Adani Transmission Limited), the energy solution, transmission and distribution arm of the Adani […]

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Khalistanis in the UK: London assures New Delhi on swift action

September 30, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After a group of pro-Khalistan extremists prevented the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from entering a Gurdwara in Scotland on Friday, London has assured India to take swift action against the perpetrators. The media reported on Saturday that the UK has taken the matter seriously. High Commissioner Vikram […]

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Roving Periscope: After terror and donkeys, Pakistan now ‘exports’ beggars!

September 29, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In an acute embarrassment to Pakistan, its co-religionist nations like Saudi Arabia, and Iraq have asked the nearly bankrupt South Asian country to stop ‘exporting’ beggars! Not surprising though because, according to reports, a tenth of the Pakistani population—25 million in a country of nearly 250 million–resorts to begging either […]

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Joe the First: US President Biden himself joins agitating workers against automakers!

September 28, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Trust politicians to do anything they can to woo voters. But it can happen only in America. In an unprecedented move, Joe Biden joined agitating auto workers on the picket line in Michigan on Tuesday in a historic first for a sitting US president, a day before rival Donald Trump […]