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More than FDI: Indian diaspora remitted $107 billion in FY24

June 26, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Breaking their record of remitting USD 100 billion in 2022-23, the Indian diaspora remitted an unprecedented USD 107 billion to their families back home in FY24, the media reported. This is nearly double the combined total of USD 54 billion from foreign direct investments (FDI) and portfolio investments during the same […]

Business

America: “Admit more Chinese students for the humanities and Indians for sciences!”

June 25, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A top American diplomat said the US should welcome more students from China to study the humanities, and Indian students for sciences, noting that American universities are limiting Chinese students’ access to sensitive technology given security concerns. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said on Monday not enough Americans were studying […]

Business

Space: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams ‘stuck’ on the ISS for 2 weeks

June 25, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With NASA conducting additional reviews of the spacecraft’s technical issues, Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams’ return to Earth has been delayed by about two weeks, the media reported on Tuesday. Sunita Williams and her co-astronaut Butch Wilmore’s return to this planet has been postponed due to multiple technical issues. NASA will permit […]

Business

Roving Periscope: “They return to India, and China, become billionaires,” says Trump

June 22, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After threatening to deport illegal immigrants en masse, former US President Donald John Trump, whose grandfather migrated from Germany to America over a century ago, has softened his stand on immigration, promising to give automatic Green Cards to foreign students who graduate from US colleges to prevent them from returning to […]

Defence

NASSCOM: India’s DeepTech startups face fund crunch

June 22, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Although the number of India’s DeepTech startups surged significantly in 2023, funding dropped by 77 percent, according to the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM). The report, “India’s DeepTech Dawn: Forging Ahead”, drawn up by NASSCOM and global consulting firm Zinnov, highlighted the worrying trend of a funding winter, […]

Education

Roving Periscope: Now, Tajikistan bans women’s hijab, and ‘alien garments’

June 21, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The “Arab Spring”, which commenced in Tunisia in 2010 and quickly spread to many Islamic countries against fundamentalism and their monarchies, and forced some Muslim countries to introduce a whiff of freedoms, may now be flowering in the third season. Drawing lessons from Saudi Arabia introducing liberties, and Iranian women fighting […]

Business

AI’s risks: An ordinary downturn can spiral into a severe economic crisis, says Gopinath

June 11, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the positive and negative impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) unfold worldwide, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) second in command has warned that it (AI) also has the potential to turn an ordinary downturn into a severe economic crisis worldwide. The disruptive effects of AI on the economy and financial markets […]

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Roving Periscope: Oxford varsity to return 500-year-old statue ‘stolen’ from India

June 11, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Five years ago, renowned economist Utsa Patnaik and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor revealed that the British Empire, which systematically plundered the Indian subcontinent and pauperized its people, siphoned off their proverbial wealth to the tune of USD 45 trillion (9.2 trillion pounds) between 1765 and 1938. Besides, the British also took […]

Defence

Roving Periscope: “Please marry, raise kids,” alarmed Japan urges its people

June 7, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While some countries fight overpopulation, Japan is so worried about its emptying schools and roads that it is set to officially launch an app to encourage young people to date, marry, and produce children. Rural areas are particularly affected by this aging and depopulation problem and hundreds of Japanese schools now […]

Business

Space: Sunita Williams makes history, pilots NASA’s Boeing spacecraft

June 6, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Indian-American astronaut Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams-piloted spacecraft, carrying her fellow NASA astronaut Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore, was launched on Wednesday toward the International Space Station (ISS) from the Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida, the USA, in a test flight that was earlier hit with multiple delays. “Let’s go, Calypso,” Sunita, whose parents […]