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Catastrophe: Over 280 mn in 59 countries faced acute hunger in 2023, says FAO

April 25, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nearly 282 million people in 59 countries suffered from acute hunger in 2023, with war-torn Gaza having the largest number of people facing famine, according to the United Nations “Global Report on Food Crises” released on Wednesday. It said 24 million more people faced an acute lack of food than in […]

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Roving Periscope: Worried, the West prepares for Trump’s return to WH!

April 25, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the first indication ever that Donald Trump may, after all, return to the White House after the November 2024 presidential elections, the allies of the USA are now preparing to ‘meet the situation.’ Germany is waging a charm offensive inside the Republican Party. Japan is lining up its own Trump […]

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What a relief: Britain “observes closely,” and discusses how horses bolted!

April 25, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: What do the retired people—and nations–do? They preach, wait for the next exciting news, and go back to take a siesta. That’s what the Britons are doing now: discussing threadbare seven horses’ escapades. They were being trained to take part in the King’s Birthday Parade–which they apparently protested against! Burdened with […]

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Dubai rainstorm: “Great lessons learned,” says the UAE; announces $544 mn for repairs

April 25, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A week after Dubai was devastated by unprecedented rains, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has allocated USD 544 million for rain-related repair works for Emirati people in the desert city which is still trying to get over the enormity of the natural disaster that affected a large area the size of […]

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Roving Periscope: To keep fires burning, US approves $95 bn package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan

April 24, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: War is big business and supporting, even financing, wars elsewhere keeps democracy alive and kicking in America. Nothing proves it better than what the US Congress has done just now even as pro-Palestinian and anti-Semitic protestors have brought several elite universities to a halt amid raging protests. And this is in […]

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Pakistan: Now, jailed Imran’s party denies it is “in talks” with the Army!

April 24, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Wheels within wheels. That defines Pakistan and its politics. A week, after the Sharifs floated a trial balloon that crises-ridden Pakistan should re-engage its “neighbor”—meaning India—the nearly bankrupt country is agog with speculations that the ruling regime might reopen a way to New Delhi. And that the omnipresent Pakistan Army, to […]

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Pakistan: PM Shehbaz fails to secure Iranian President’s support on J&K

April 23, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It was a routine visit. And it has remained precisely that. For, Pakistan Prime Minister Mian Muhammed Shehbaz Sharif has failed to secure the support of the Iranian President on the Jammu and Kashmir issue, the media reported on the second day of the three-day visit of Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi. President […]

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Roving Periscope: In an election year, US varsities are plagued with JNU-type “students” protests!

April 23, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In an election year, the United States, which loves to lecture the world on freedom and democracy, is testing its own medicines on college campuses over its pro-Israel policy in the Gaza War that has claimed nearly 34,000 people since the October 7, 2023, invasion of the Jewish state by Hamas […]

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Climate collapse: Post-Dubai floods, the WMO says Asia is worst hit

April 23, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after the worst Dubai floods in 75 years, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has said Asia was the planet’s most disaster-hit region from climate and weather hazards in 2023. The WMO, the United Nations’ weather and climate agency, said on Tuesday, that floods and storms are the chief cause of […]

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Road to Perdition: Pro-China Muizzu’s party wins landslide in the Maldives

April 22, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Reminiscent of the Rajapakse clan’s election victories on an anti-India plank in Sri Lanka until 2019, which dragged their pro-China government and the island nation into a debt trap and economic disaster by 2022, the political outfit of President Mohamed Muizzu has also won a landslide win in the Maldives on […]