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Elections: Putin, contesting himself, extends good wishes to PM Modi for 2024 LS polls

December 28, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is contesting the March 2024 elections to retain his office, has extended good wishes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Lok Sabha elections due by May 2024. Referring to the Lok Sabha election due mid-next year, President Putin said he wished “our friends every […]

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2024: India to remain the world’s fastest-growing economy, says Assocham

December 28, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Amid a gloomy 2024 creeping into many recessionary economies worldwide three days from now, India’s leading business and industry body has predicted that the South Asian nation, currently the fifth-largest economy in the world, is likely to remain the fastest-growing as well in the new year beginning on Monday next. […]

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2100: India to emerge as the world’s largest economy, says CEBR

December 27, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Already the fifth-largest and poised to be the third-largest economy in a decade, India is also set to emerge as the topmost economy on the planet by the end of this century, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), a London-based economic consultancy specializing in economic forecasts […]

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Roving Periscope: Dr. Saveera Parkash, the first Hindu woman, to contest polls in Pakistan

December 26, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Nearly a month ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi consecrating the idols of Lord Rama on January 22, the Ayodhya event has hit headlines in neighboring Pakistan where some people now wonder if the mosques they go to for prayers were erected on the ruins of Hindu temples. But an […]

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The ‘forgotten war:’ Ukraine still hopes for US aid, worried over what next?

December 21, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: After Russia invaded it on February 24, 2022, Ukraine became the center of geopolitics with support, sympathy, weapons, and funds pouring in. With Hamas invading Israel on October 7, 2023, however, Palestine returned as the world’s foremost geopolitical hotspot. Both these wars continue unabated, with no end in sight. They […]

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Roving Periscope: National interest is India’s foremost guiding principle in foreign policy, says PM Modi

December 21, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: National interest is the foremost guiding principle in India’s foreign policy, which follows a “mix-and-match diplomacy” focused on pragmatic engagement aligned with the country’s interests, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said. “The world is interconnected as well as interdependent,” he observed in an interview with the British daily Financial Times, […]

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Payments: UPI transactions up 118% in rural and semi-urban retail stores in 2023

December 20, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: India’s financial miracle, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), being followed by around 50 countries worldwide, is unstoppable within the nation as well. It is not only a predominant mode of payment in cities and towns, but it has also percolated to semi-urban and rural areas, making it the driving force […]

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Pannun case: Indo-US ties won’t be derailed, says PM Modi in first reaction

December 20, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asserted that diplomatic ties between India and the United States would not be derailed by a “few incidents” and New Delhi will consider any information Washington shares on allegations of a plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist in New York. In an interview with British […]

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Roving Periscope: Uncertainty grips the US over its next President in 2024

December 20, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Who will be elected the next US President in November 2024? Nobody knows. Both the principal contenders are facing multiple controversies and health issues while the minor ones are what they are: minors learning to swim in tricky political splash pools. The Democrat incumbent, Joe Biden, is 81 and ailing. […]

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Additional spends: Parliament okays Rs. 58k crores, mainly for rural and farm sectors

December 19, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: During the ongoing Winter Session, Parliament on Tuesday approved a net additional spending of Rs 58,378 crore in the current fiscal ending March 2024, with a large chunk allocated to MGNREGA and fertilizer subsidies. The gross additional spending would now be more than Rs 1.29 lakh crore, out of which […]

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