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Viksit Bharat: As PM Modi sets the tone, bureaucrats discuss new goals for his 3rd term

April 5, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi, confident of winning a third term in a row following the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, giving them a go-ahead, bureaucrats in the government are currently busy discussing the new draft policies and goals achievable in the next five years. The election campaign for the Lower House […]

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Overpopulation: After the UK, Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany also!

April 4, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: “This is not a joke,” says Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi. And it may well be the weirdest story ever from the conservation of wildlife. African nation Botswana, home to the world’s largest elephant population, has threatened to send 20,000 tuskers to Germany amid a dispute over the import of hunting trophies, […]

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‘You are on the way to seeing the high noon of the new India’: SEBI Chief Ms Madhabi Puri Buch Says to Graduating Students at IIMA Convocation

March 30, 2024 Vinayak Barot

March 30, 2024: The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) hosted its 59th Annual Convocation in the lush green lawns of the majestic Louis Kahn Plaza today, which has served as the Convocation venue since 1974. This year, the Institute had the honour to host Ms Madhabi Puri Buch, IIMA alumna and Chairperson of the Securities and […]

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Roving Periscope: “What gives you the right to lecture us,” an angry Guyana President rips BBC apart

March 30, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Much water has flown across the oceans and seas of the planet since colonialism ended with the 1997 British withdrawal from its last colony, Hong Kong. But the West, unable to shed its hangover and still riding its dead high horse, continues to treat the Third World with contempt. The holier-than-thou […]

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Technology: “Surpass AI,” PM Modi to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates

March 29, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Asserting that technology can play a major role in sectors such as agriculture, health, and education, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged Microsoft Inc. co-founder to encourage technologists to aim higher and surpass even Artificial Intelligence (AI) with greater innovation. In a 45-minute-long wide-ranging interaction, the two world leaders—one in […]

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Trade: India-US trade to surpass $200 billion in 2024, says Garcetti

March 8, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The India-United States trade is likely to surpass the previous record of USD 200 billion this year and huge opportunities exist for the two largest democracies to expand cooperation in defense and space sectors, besides critical emerging technologies like semiconductors and artificial intelligence, said US American Ambassador Eric Garcetti on Thursday. […]

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Abortion: France, the largest Catholic nation, makes pregnancy termination a constitutional right

March 6, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Christian theology has taught the faithful—particularly over 1.3 billion Catholics—that abortion is an unpardonable sin. For centuries, the faithful have fought amongst themselves on this critical issue. Even now, the Republicans and the Democrats fight in the USA on whether abortion is a woman’s right. Now, France, the largest Catholic […]

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600 students of Adani Vidya Mandir, Bhadreshwar, pledge to plant over 25,000 saplings

March 6, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Mundra, March 6, 2024: In a unique celebration, students of Adani Vidya Mandir, Bhadreshwar (AVMB), dedicated their 12th annual day ‘Utkarsh’ to United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As part of this, 600 students pledged to plant over 25,000 saplings over a period of three years on the school premises and outside, including mangroves on […]

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Technology: Google agrees to restore Indian apps on Play Store—for now

March 5, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pending a decision by the antitrust body Competition Commission of India (CCI), search engine behemoth Google on Tuesday agreed to reinstate all the delisted apps of Indian startup companies on its Play Store after a government intervention got the two sides talking to resolve a dispute over service fee payments. Union […]

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Price rise: CMIE’s inflation projections lower than RBI’s

March 4, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Contrary to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s projections, the leading economic think tank, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), said on Monday the country’s inflation may decline for two years in a row. It is likely to fall to 4.3 percent in 2024-25 from 5.4 percent in 2023-24, which […]

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