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Roving Periscope: ‘China’s attack on Taiwan may cost the world USD 10 trillion’

January 9, 2024 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Alerts and warnings flooded mobile telephones across Taiwan on Tuesday as China fired a rocket over the south of the island state, just four days before Taipei goes to elections on January 13. It wasn’t a missile as Taiwan initially believed, but a satellite. But the mistrust between Beijing and […]

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Pakistan: SC clears Army-supported Nawaz’s return to power next month

January 8, 2024 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday scrapped the lifetime disqualification clause in the Constitution, paving the way for the possible return of three-time Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif to power after the February 8 election to the National Assembly, the media reported. The clause under Article 62 (1) (f) of […]

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Roving Periscope: Amid Islamist opposition boycott, Hasina wins 5th term in Bangladesh

January 8, 2024 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed won re-election for a fifth term, amid a boycott led by the main opposition party she branded a “terrorist organization,” the media reported on Monday. Until the latest reports became available, the media said, her political party Awami League (AL) won 223 seats out […]

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Battle of the Begums: B’desh Opposition starts 48-hr strike against “one-sided” elections on Sunday

January 6, 2024 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Fearing electoral reverses once again, Bangladesh’s main Opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party headed by two-time former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, and other opposition groups, started a ‘general strike’ on Saturday, ahead of the Sunday elections to Parliament. These opposition parties, supported by Islamic militants, are boycotting the polls, claiming […]

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Roving Periscope: Jailed Imran cocks a snook at the Pak army and govt–twice in two weeks

January 6, 2024 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Riding a sympathy wave after Indira Gandhi’s assassination in 1984, when her son Rajiv Gandhi-led Congress won a brute majority, winning 413 of 543 Lok Sabha seats and crushing the Opposition, the media took it upon itself the responsibility of a credible rival to the government. It challenged the arrogant […]

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Wealth: With $97.6 billion, Gautam Adani is again Asia’s richest man

January 5, 2024 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: India’s billionaire Gautam Adani has reclaimed the top position on the Asian rich list after the Supreme Court reprieve this week. His net worth rose USD 7.7 billion in a day to USD 97.6 billion, making him reclaim the top spot in Asia from compatriot Reliance chief Mukesh Ambani, whose […]

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Roving Periscope: Beware of China’s Modi praise—“Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai 2.0”

January 5, 2024 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Idiots in India are going gaga over China’s latest praise of its Enemy Number One! In his famous treatise, The Art of War, ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu (fifth century BC) advised the rulers to develop good information sources in the enemy country, specifying five types of intelligence gathering, […]

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Roving Periscope: India politically ready to navigate the 2024 challenges, says EAM Jaishankar

January 4, 2024 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: India is ready and politically well-positioned with a fair deal of confidence to navigate challenges in 2024, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on Wednesday. This year, 2024, would remain turbulent for the world but India is well-positioned politically and economically to navigate the challenges and maintain its rising global […]

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Terrorism: Tasting its own medicine, terror-friendly Pakistan witnessed a 17% rise in violence in 2023

January 4, 2024 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Pakistan, the state-supported global nursery of terrorism, is getting it back. In its coin. Actively supported by its all-powerful military-led establishment, home-grown and foreign terrorists are boomeranging on Pakistan to haunt it. Everyday. In 2023, the Islamist-infested South Asian nation witnessed a 17 percent spike in terrorist violence with 693 […]

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Roving Periscope: “Annihilate the US, S. Korea….if provoked,” Kim orders N. Korean army!

January 1, 2024 Vinayak Barot

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: North Korea’s dynastic dictator Kim Jong Un, viewed as China’s convenient proxy, opened the New Year 2024 with an order to his military to “thoroughly annihilate the United States and South Korea”—if provoked. As he usually does, Kim is likely to ramp up weapons tests in 2024 ahead of the […]

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