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Roving Periscope: Over 900 Kuki infiltrators from Myanmar may reignite the Christian militancy in the Northeast

September 23, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Four months after the then Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed hinted at a ‘Western’ conspiracy to potentially cobble together a new Christian nation from the adjoining areas of Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar in the Northeastern region, her fears may be coming true with the reported infiltration of over 900 heavily-armed […]

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Semiconductors: President Biden, and PM Modi announce plans for a new plant in India

September 23, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The USA and India will work together on setting up a semiconductor fabrication plant in the South Asian nation, giving a boost to visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to bolster chip manufacturing in the country. The proposed plant will make infrared, gallium nitride, and silicon-carbide semiconductors, according to a White […]

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Roving Periscope: MS chief warns of ‘foreign interference’ on eve of US polls

September 19, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid this year’s Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had, in a TV interview, disclosed that some ‘foreigners’ were not only ‘interested’ in the Indian parliamentary elections but also ‘interfering’ in it. Now, Microsoft Corporation’s President Brad Smith has warned of possible meddling by foreign state actors in the final […]

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Good news? ADB to give $ 2bn annually as fresh loans to Pakistan!

September 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A nearly bankrupt and failing state, Pakistan, woke up on Tuesday to a piece of news it didn’t know if it was good or bad for national honor: the Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) has assured Islamabad that it would get USD 2 billion per annum, as fresh loans, every year, […]

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States: West Bengal’s economy declined from the early 1960s

September 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: West Bengal, which held the third-largest share of national GDP at 10.5 percent in 1960-61, now accounts for only 5.6 percent in 2023-24, and has seen a consistent decline throughout this period, a government report has said. The state, whose largest city Calcutta (now Kolkata) was the British Raj’s capital in […]

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Pakistan: Now, terrorists use PUBG features to avoid surveillance!

September 16, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Before they launched an attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on August 28, terrorists used the popular video game PUBG’s features to avoid being tracked by Pakistan intelligence officials, the media reported on Monday. According to the English daily Dawn, terrorists used features from PlayerUnknown’s BattleGrounds (PUBG), a popular video game, to […]

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The POTUS poll: Stuck at the ISS, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore to vote from space!

September 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Indian-origin veteran astronaut Sunita Williams and her fellow NASA colleague Butch Wilmore plan to vote from space to elect the next President of the United States (POTUS) on November 5, 2024. The two astronauts, who took off aboard Boeing’s Starliner on June 5, 2024, for a week but got stuck in […]

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Roving Periscope: The Dragon is fast-aging; China to hike retirement ages

September 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For decades, China had the dubious distinction of being the world’s most populous nation. In 2022-23, India replaced China on this count. But now China faces the twin threats of a growing aging population and a shrinking workforce because of a low birth rate, forcing it to consider raising its statutory […]

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Economy: India to drive a fifth of global growth in the next decade, says Kant

September 12, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India is set to drive around 20 percent of the global economic growth in the next decade as it relentlessly marches to become the world’s third-largest economy, G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant said on Thursday. Addressing the All-India Management Association (AIMA) convention in the national capital, he said the South Asian country […]

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Social media “scourge”: Australia to legally ban users under 16 years of age

September 10, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Although analysts are doubting its technological feasibility, Australia is considering introducing legislation this year to ban access to social media outlets by users under 16 years of age. Even the Opposition will support it, the media reported on Tuesday. The minimum age for children to log into social media sites including […]