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Roving Periscope: PM Modi leaves for 5-day State Visits to the US and Egypt

June 20, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: “Together we stand stronger,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday morning when he left for a historic five-day State Visit to the United States and Egypt. It is his first State Visit to the US and only second by an Indian PM. The key takeaway from his US visit […]

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Business

Modi overseas: the Indian PM to lead Yoga Day at the UN, visit the US and Egypt next week

June 16, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have a busy schedule next week as he embarks upon his visit to the US (June 20 to 24), lead the International Day of Yoga at the United Nations (June 21), and pays a visit to Egypt thereafter (June 25-26) while returning home. On June […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Broke Pakistan’s FY24 budget sets aside half the loaf to pay the debt

June 10, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With no lender ready to help it any longer, a nearly bankrupt Pakistan has set aside half of its USD 51 billion budget for the financial year 2023-24 to service its crippling external debt amounting to over USD 125 billion. No new taxes have been levied in this budget as […]

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Business

Technology: India’s Internet-based economy to grow 6-fold to USD 1 trillion by 2030

June 6, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi:  As the Indian economy marches ahead, the South Asian country’s Internet-based economy is likely to grow exponentially six-fold to USD 1 trillion by 2030, mainly driven by the e-commerce vertical, a report said on Tuesday. This growth will be led by the B2C e-commerce segment, followed by B2B e-commerce, software-as-a-service […]

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Business

Debt-ceiling: As the House nods, no US default for now; Bill sent to the Senate

June 1, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi:  Ahead of the June 5 default deadline, the US Congress’ Lower House (House of Representatives) on Wednesday passed the debt-limit legislation forged by President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy that would impose restraints on government spending through the 2024 election and sent it to the Upper House (Senate) for […]

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Education

Adani Vidya Mandir, Ahmedabad & UNICEF join hands for a unique educational initiative

May 17, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad, 17 May 2023: In a one-of-its-kind collaboration, Adani Vidya Mandir, Ahmedabad (AVMA) is joining hands with UNICEF to roll out the ‘UNICEF on Campus Knowledge Initiative’ for all the school students from June to December 2023. It is being implemented by the UNICEF office of Gujarat and the collaboration letters were signed this morning […]

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Education

Adani SAKSHAM Launches Skill Centre in Metaverse : The skill-development vertical of Adani Foundation marks the completion of 7 years with a new milestone

May 16, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad: Adani Skill Development Centre (ASDC) was registered on May 16, 2016 as a not-for-profit company to skill India’s youth and contribute towards nation building. Marking the completion of seven years, it has become the world’s first skill centre to enter the Metaverse, beginning by introducing two courses. With this milestone, the skill-development vertical of […]

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Business

Technology: To cut costs and face reverses, Cognizant to fire 3,500 employees

May 4, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: American Information Technology major Cognizant, once a bellwether in the sector with revenues of nearly USD 20 billion in 2022, became the latest IT company to join the layoff bandwagon as it announced to fire some 3,500 employees and close or curtail office spaces to save cost. The New Jersey-based […]

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Business

Green signal: The US to issue over a million visas to Indians this year

April 22, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The USA is set to create a record by issuing over 10 lakh visas to Indians in 2023, an official said on Friday, adding the Biden administration will process all of the student visas for Indians whose school starts this fall. According to the media reports, US Assistant Secretary of […]

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Astro Science

ISRO launched two Singaporean satellites into space on PSLV-C55

April 22, 2023 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi, April 22: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the two Singapur-made satellites on the Indian-made space module PSLV-C55 on Saturday. The mission launched from the SDSC-SHAR Sriharikota in Indian standard time at 14:19 hours. The satellite is launched under the contract of the new Space India Limited, the commercial arm of the Indian […]

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