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Gaming: Centre asks online firms to cough up Rs. one lakh crore as GST

October 25, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A month after cracking the whip on several online gaming companies, the Centre has served show-cause notices to them to pay GST to the tune of Rs. one trillion (one lakh crore). India’s cricket maniacs, who fell for celebrities endorsing online games, have reportedly ended up losing billions of rupees […]

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Electricity: ‘By 2050, India’s ACs would consume more power than entire Africa’

October 24, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India is geographically larger than Europe, minus Russia’s European part, and the British called the South Asian country a ‘subcontinent.’ By 2050, however, the air-conditioners installed in a rising India will alone consume more electricity than an entire continent—Africa—will do. India’s demand for electricity for running household air conditioners is […]

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Khalistan: “Canadian diplomats misused powers, gave visas to separatists”

October 23, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid the month-long Canada-India row, and New Delhi packing off 41 Canadian diplomats in one go last week, the media reported on Monday that these envoys were “misusing their power and granting visas to Khalistan supporters.” According to reports, the Canadian diplomats had gone “very soft” on visas to […]

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Conflict: The Hamas-Israeli clash may spur inflation, hamper growth, says IMF

October 12, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Until now, the five-day war between Israel and Sunni terror outfit Hamas is limited to the Jewish state and Gaza Strip, but, if it widens, it may trigger a significant rise in oil prices and hamper growth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday. The global lender’s First […]

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Economics: Claudia Goldwin wins the Nobel Prize 2023

October 9, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: American economic historian and labor economist Claudia Goldwin won the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2023, the media reported on Monday. She won it for “having advanced our understanding of women’s labor market outcomes,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. The prestigious award, formally known as the “Sveriges Riksbank […]

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Khalistan: British PM Sunak calls Canada’s Trudeau to de-escalate tension with India

October 7, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In a fresh move by the West to persuade Canada to get its bilateral relations with India back to normal, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau on Friday to de-escalate tension with New Delhi. The two leaders underscored the importance of de-escalation of the India-Canada […]

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Peace: For fighting oppression, Iranian woman Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Prize 2023

October 6, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Iran’s human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, who is imprisoned, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 for fighting against the oppression of women. The media reported on Friday that she has a long history of imprisonment, harsh sentences, and international calls for reviews of her case. “She fights for women […]

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Literature: The Nobel Prize for 2023 goes to Norwegian author Jon Fosse

October 5, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Norwegian novelist and dramatist Jon Fosse has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2023, “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,” the Swedish Academy announced on Thursday. Fosse’s body of work, written in Norwegian Nynorsk, included several plays, novels, poetry collections, […]

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Roving Periscope: Ousting its first House Speaker, the US makes history since 1776

October 4, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Come September, we all have springs in our feet. But as the month of October approaches each year, the world’s attention gets focused on the United States, Sweden, and Norway. On Washington, because the Opposition ritually flexes its muscles and tries to stall the Administration’s funding ahead of the new […]

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The Nobel Prizes 2023: Three awarded for Physics, another three for Chemistry

October 4, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Nobel Prize for Physics (2023) has been jointly won by Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’ Huillier, and the one for Chemistry has gone to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Alexei I. Ekimov. Announcing the Prizes, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the Prize for […]