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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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‘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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Friendship: The US-India ties among the ‘most consequential’ in the world, says POTUS

June 26, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Taking stock two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first State Visit concluded, US President Joe Biden hailed relations with India, saying the friendship between the two democracies is among the “most consequential in the world.” Taking to Twitter on Sunday, he said, “The friendship between the United States and […]

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Business

Day 4: Google, and Amazon to invest $25 bn in India

June 24, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Search engine behemoth Google will invest USD 10 billion in India’s digitization fund, while e-commerce giant Amazon plans to invest another USD 15 billion in the country, the media reported on Saturday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interaction with the CEOs of global companies. Announcing fresh investments, Google’s CEO Sunder […]

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Business

Day 3: Key takeaways from PM Modi’s landmark US visit—defense, technology, space cooperation

June 23, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: If the UPA government, led by Dr. Manmohan Singh, had pushed India into the US orbit after the 2008 nuclear deal, despite the Left’s Opposition, the landmark State Visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to America has firmed up multiple deals that would propel New Delhi to new heights in […]

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Day One: “I’m Modi’s fan; may visit India in 2024,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk

June 21, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: “India has more promise than any other large nation,” said the world’s richest man on Wednesday after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York, adding he looked forward to visiting India next year as he is a Modi fan. About Tesla’s plans in India, its CEO Elon Musk asserted […]

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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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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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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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