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“Brothers forever”: Presidents Putin and Xi cement their ties, again

May 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In February 2022, days before Russia invaded Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin attended the Olympic Games in Beijing, returned with a promise of “limitless friendship” with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, and ordered his armed forces to launch a “special military campaign” that has dragged on from his intended “48 hours” to […]

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LS polls: “PM Modi will return; hope Pak also gets a leader like him”

May 16, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Leading Pakistani-American media commentator and businessman Sajid Tarar has said that Narendra Modi is set to return a third time as the Prime Minister of India, and expressed the hope that Pakistan would also get a leader like him. The Baltimore-based Tarar said PM Modi is a strong leader who has […]

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LS polls: Dr. Jaishankar slams the West, and its media, for dishing “gyan” to India

May 15, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi revealed that some foreign countries were not just influencing but trying to ‘interfere’ in India’s ongoing Lok Sabha polls, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hit out at the West and its media for dishing out unsolicited “gyan” to the world’s largest democracy. The Western countries […]

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Trade war: President Biden sharply hikes US tariffs on many Chinese imports

May 15, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Intensifying his predecessor’s trade war against China, President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced steep tariff increases on several categories of Chinese imports including electric vehicles, computer chips, and medical products, risking an election-year standoff with Beijing in a bid to woo voters dissatisfied with his economic policies. Democrat President Biden will […]

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“Allow Israel to nuke Gaza”: US Senator Graham shocks the world!

May 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While US President Joe Biden is “withholding” the supply of some key weapons to Israel, which ignored it and invaded the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah bordering Egypt on Sunday to flush out Hamas terrorists, an American senator has shocked the world by saying Washington should allow Jerusalem to drop […]

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Roving Periscope: The US smells a rat in Chabahar, warns India of “sanctions”

May 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: No Democrat American President has probably turned as ‘anti-Indian’ within a few months as Joe Biden, 81, has done in 2024, the year for his re-election bid—although his administration is studded with nearly 300 Indian-Americans working at different levels of his government. Under pressure from the so-called Liberal-Democratic-Secular (LibDemSec) cabal at […]

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LS polls: Amid global turbulence, India needs stable and mature leadership, says Jaishankar

May 10, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India must have a stable and mature leadership as the world will witness a “very, very stormy” churn because of conflicts, power shifts, and sharpening competition in this decade, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on Friday. He painted a picture of a world radically different by the end of the […]

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Roving Periscope: The US refutes Russian claims, denies ‘interference’ in Indian polls

May 10, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The United States on Thursday refuted Russia’s claims and denied Washington is ‘meddling’ in India’s ongoing Lok Sabha elections. The US reaction came a day after Russia said that America was trying to interfere in India’s parliamentary elections and “unbalance” the internal political situation in the South Asian country. “No, of […]

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The Maldives: India withdraws 51 soldiers before the May 10 ‘deadline’

May 9, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the Maldives followed the Maoist policy of “two steps forward, one backward,” India has withdrawn 51 of its soldiers from the Maldives so far, the capital Male said ahead of the May 10 deadline set by President Mohamed Muizzu for the complete withdrawal of Indian military personnel from his pro-China […]

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Roving Periscope: Pakistan dubs as a “Dark day” the May 9, 2023 anti-army ‘coup’

May 9, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As jailed former Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi refused to apologize, the Pakistani government decided to mark Thursday (May 9) as a “Black Day,” the first anniversary of the unprecedented anti-army riots and violence that gripped the nearly bankrupt country after the cricketer-turned-politician’s arrest. For the first time in Pakistan’s […]