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Gaza: Israeli intel warned of Hamas plot before Oct 7 attack

June 18, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After more than 38,000 deaths and wanton destruction during the ongoing Gaza Conflict, it has emerged that the Israeli intelligence had forewarned officials about a month before the October 7, 2023, attack by the Gaza Strip-based Hamas terrorist group, the media reported. An Israeli intelligence brief prepared weeks before Hamas’s attack […]

Business

What security: US spy robbed at gunpoint during President Biden’s visit to California!

June 18, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Barely six months before the November Presidential elections, this incident throws a spotlight on America’s superpower-dom and the hollowness of its ‘superior’ security and defense apparatus, at a time its incumbent President Joe Biden 81, is trying to retain the White House against the efforts of his predecessor, Donald Trump, 78, […]

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Israel: Amid the Gaza War, PM Netanyahu dissolves his emergency War Cabinet

June 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid the ongoing Gaza War, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday dissolved his six-member emergency War Cabinet, triggering more uncertainties about the peace efforts, led by US President Joe Biden who wants to add a feather to his cap before the November elections in a bid to retain the White […]

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Roving Periscope: As Trump vows deportation, the US hurries up with Gupta’s extradition

June 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Reflecting America’s internal political dynamics, a day after Donald Trump vowed the “largest deportation operation” in US history against suspect immigrants, the Biden Administration, in a bid to keep the pro-Khalistanis in good humor, secured the extradition of an Indian accused in the alleged plot to kill a separatist Sikh, Gurpatwant […]

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South Africa: President Ramaphosa re-elected for a second term

June 15, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, 71, has been re-elected for a second term of five years after a late-night coalition agreement with the opposition parties, the media reported on Saturday. This came after the ruling Black-majority African National Congress (ANC) lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in 30 years […]

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FY25: FM Sitharaman to make history—seventh budget in a row!

June 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Breaking the record set by Morarji Desai, who tabled the Union Budget for six consecutive financial years in the 1950s-1960s, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to make history when she presents the document a seventh time in a row in the coming weeks for the financial year 2024-24 as the […]

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Pakistan: Facing bankruptcy, FM Aurangzeb ups defense budget by 15%

June 13, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pakistan Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Wednesday announced a nearly 15 percent hike in the cash-strapped nation’s defense spending and allocated Rs 2,122 billion in the 2024-25 budget, marking a significant increase from last year amid efforts to secure a fresh loan from the IMF to meet the hand-to-mouth country’s external […]

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G-7 Summit: PM Modi flying to Italy on Thursday

June 12, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In his first overseas trip after assuming charge as the Prime Minister for a third consecutive term, Narendra Modi will on Thursday fly to Italy to attend the Group of Seven (G-7) Summit. He has been invited by his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni. After the Summit, India may also join the […]

Defence

Living beyond means: The Maldives may follow the Sri Lankan financial woes

June 12, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Being politically anti-Indian and pro-Chinese ruins a whole country. Sri Lanka’s ruling Rajapaksa clan realized it in 2022; the Maldives’ pro-China President Mohamed Muizzu may soon realize that his Indian Ocean archipelago nation is slipping into the same pit. When the then Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the anti-government uprising […]

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Roving Periscope: During Modi 3.0, India to remain the world’s fastest-growing economy

June 12, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government, which kicked off on a positive note for a third consecutive term of five years on June 9, is likely to lead India’s economic success on a global scale in the coming years, according to various growth projections. After the United Nations recently upgraded […]