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Tit-for-tat: After China’s ‘renaming’ spree in Arunachal, India to rechristen 30 places in “Occupied Tibet”

June 11, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For centuries, an expansionist and imperialist China has practiced the subtle art of cartography and quietly renamed foreign territories as its first and second moves to annex them. That was how it rechristened and grabbed the Muslim-majority Eastern Turkestan as “Xinjiang”, and, more recently, renamed several places in Arunachal Pradesh which […]

Business

Six days later: Finally, Pakistan’s Sharif Brothers congratulate PM Modi!

June 10, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India’s distant neighbor, Pakistan, finally caught up with the world and, six days after the Lok Sabha elections results came, congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his third consecutive term that commenced with the swearing-in of his Council of Ministers on Sunday. Of late, Pakistan, whose economy is in a dire […]

Business

EU election debacle: Macron dissolves French Parliament, announces snap polls

June 10, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In a surprise move, President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the National Assembly, the Lower House of France’s Parliament, sending shocked voters back to the snap polls in the coming weeks to choose new lawmakers, after his party was handed a humbling defeat by the far-right in the European Parliament elections on Sunday. […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Modi 3.0 gets going with Canada, the Maldives, and others

June 10, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after beginning his government’s third straight term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his likely External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Monday started refreshing India’s relations with other countries, especially with Canada and the Maldives with whom New Delhi’s bonhomie took a nosedive in the last few months. PM Modi […]

Business

Modi 3.0: Indian-Americans to celebrate the swearing-in event in 22 US cities

June 8, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Thousands of Indian-Americans, who support Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi, will celebrate his oath-taking ceremony for a third consecutive term on Sunday across 22 cities in the United States. The Modi supporters will celebrate the event in a big way, a senior leader from Overseas Friends of BJP-USA, said, the media reported […]

Business

Nepal: PM Prachand recalls ambassadors from 11 countries, including India

June 7, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Weeks after changing his alliance partners in government, Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachand” has decided to recall Kathmandu’s ambassadors to 11 countries, including India. The Nepalese PM, whose Cabinet took this decision on Thursday, will attend the swearing-in ceremony of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for a third straight […]

Defence

Roving Periscope: “Please marry, raise kids,” alarmed Japan urges its people

June 7, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While some countries fight overpopulation, Japan is so worried about its emptying schools and roads that it is set to officially launch an app to encourage young people to date, marry, and produce children. Rural areas are particularly affected by this aging and depopulation problem and hundreds of Japanese schools now […]

Business

Markets: Sensex, Nifty50 zoom after RBI, Modi-return sends positive signals

June 7, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Narendra Modi’s re-election to lead the NDA government for a third consecutive term, signaling political and economic stability and investors’ confidence, and the RBI keeping optimism about the economy alive, India’s benchmark equity indices zoomed back on Friday. The Reserve Bank of India also upped the real GDP growth projection […]

Business

Roving Periscope: After China, “India is the 2nd biggest threat,” claims Canada

June 6, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Canada on Thursday claimed that, after China, India is the second biggest threat to the North American nation’s “democracy.” Its claim came in the wake of the victory of two Khalistani militants—Amritpal Singh (from Khandoor Sahib LS constituency, Punjab) and Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa, son of former PM Indira Gandhi’s assassin Beant […]

Business

Modi 3.0 hopes: Bulls return, as Sensex and Nifty50 recover with 2,300, and 735 pts

June 5, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With a third term of the Narendra Modi government likely to begin on June 8, and reformist Andhra leader N. Chandra Babu Naidu’s possible support to the NDA, the equity markets bounced back on Wednesday, trying to recover the unprecedented losses it suffered a day before. The benchmark S&P Sensex and […]