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Education

Women: Iran sends anti-Hijab activists to psychiatrists, clean morgues

August 7, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: After lying low for a few months, Iran is punishing anti-Hijab women activists with psychiatric treatment, cleaning of morgues, and other means, the media reported. A court in Tehran province sentenced a woman to spend a month cleaning corpses in a morgue when she was caught driving without a hijab. […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Earth enters the “era of global boiling”, says UN chief

July 28, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Three days before the month of August begins, the United Nations has said July 2023 was the “hottest month” ever recorded worldwide. Some experts believe that July might well be the warmest month in the past 120,000 years. Amid blistering heatwaves in several countries, July is “virtually certain” to be […]

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Business

Pollution: India, France to bolster talks with nations to end the plastic menace

July 15, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: India and France will step up their collaboration in combating climate change and in environmental protection, and constructively engage other like-minded countries to strengthen the negotiations for an international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution. After talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris […]

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Business

Media: Now, the BBC ‘covers up’ the anchor’s name after sexual pictures payoff

July 10, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Weeks after flouting tax norms in India and its disgraced chairman quitting on corruption charges, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), a self-proclaimed defender of ‘free’ journalism worldwide, is now being accused of not disclosing the name of an anchor, suspended for payments in a sex scandal. The media reported on […]

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Business

Green Cards: Thousands of Indian-Americans may benefit

July 7, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Thousands of Indian-Americans are expected to benefit from the latest US move on providing green cards to them after a US President’s Advisory Commission approved that over 230,000 unused cards for family and employment categories since 1992 be recaptured. A green card, officially known as a Permanent Resident Card (PRC), […]

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Business

Economy: India’s growth sustainable, FinMin says, and cautions against headwinds

July 6, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi:  Noting that the Indian economy grew by 7.2 percent in 2022-23, especially in its last quarter (January-March 2023), the Finance Ministry on Thursday said the country will continue to register sustained growth in a more durable way than before—but also cautioned about the possible headwinds that could pose major challenges, […]

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Defence

Roving Periscope: No country wants Japan to release Fukushima waters in the Pacific Ocean

July 5, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Japan got a green signal from the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday for its plans to pump out and release 1.3 million tons of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean over the next few decades from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, but no country […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: PM Modi to host Putin, Xi, and others virtually in SCO Summit on Tuesday

July 3, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Ten days after the Wagner Group’s short-lived mutiny in Russia, its President Vladimir Putin will appear at the Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) hosted virtually by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. Besides President Putin, his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, among others, […]

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Business

Warriors: As the war with Russia rages, 2,300 Indian students return to Ukraine

June 29, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid outcry from their worried parents, over 23,000 Indian students returned home when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Now, a tenth of them have returned to the war-torn nation which has faced wanton destruction in the last 16 months and is short on supplies of everything. After a […]

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Business

‘Reverse’ aging: All South Koreans are now younger by a year!

June 29, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: When do we become one year old? At birth? Or a year after birth? Unlike other countries, a South Korean child was, until now, deemed a year old the day he or she was born because of society’s traditional age counting practices. Not anymore. For, South Korea has now joined […]

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