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Khalistan: “Canadian diplomats misused powers, gave visas to separatists”

October 23, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid the month-long Canada-India row, and New Delhi packing off 41 Canadian diplomats in one go last week, the media reported on Monday that these envoys were “misusing their power and granting visas to Khalistan supporters.”   According to reports, the Canadian diplomats had gone “very soft” on visas to […]

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Pakistan: Court indicts ex-PM Imran Khan for making ‘secret cable’ public

October 23, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Two days after his predecessor Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif returned home from a four-year-long self-exile in the United Kingdom, a Pakistani court framed charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan for making public the contents of a ‘secret diplomatic cable.’ The local media reported on Monday that Imran ‘leaked’ the […]

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Canada: After angering Sikhs, Trudeau earns Muslims’ ire, too!

October 21, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: His political immaturity is now a legend, not only in Canada but also worldwide. For, within two months, he has antagonized two of the largest immigrant communities in the North American nation: the Sikhs and the Muslims. Ahead of his 2015 parliamentary elections, a large number of Canadian Sikhs—except the […]

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Ummeed-e-Pakistan: Nawaz returns home, to lead party in January 2024 NA elections

October 21, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Three-time Prime Minister Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif on Saturday returned home after a four-year-long self-exile in the United Kingdom to lead his Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) party in the scheduled elections to National Assembly in January 2024, and try to secure a fourth term. The 73-year-old PML-N supremo flew from […]

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Khalistan: India-Canada business unaffected, as Ottawa recalls 41 diplomats from New Delhi

October 20, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The India-Canada row over the Khalistan issue revived on Friday when New Delhi rejected Ottawa’s attempts to portray its pullout of 41 diplomats as a violation of the Vienna Convention, but said India has no plans to affect ongoing trade and investment between the two democracies. “We reject any attempt […]

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Roving Periscope: After Biden fails, British PM Sunak tries to contain Hamas conflgration in Arab world

October 20, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: After the hospital blast this week, which allegedly killed some 500 people in Gaza and enraged the Muslims the world over, the Palestinians claimed on Friday that several people died in a mosque targeted by Israel, which awaited the most opportune moment to push its ground assault into the Gaza […]

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Exports: India to export 1mt of rice, but extends ban on sugar outgo beyond Oct 31

October 18, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Following concerns expressed abroad over food insecurity in many countries in the wake of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, India has allowed the export of 10.34 lakh tons of non-basmati white rice to seven countries on a government-to-government (G2G) basis but has extended the ban on sugar exports beyond October 3. […]

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Roving Periscope: Hamas tests Israel’s—and Netanyahu’s—nerves of steel

October 9, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Forty-seven years ago, his elder brother Yonatan Netanyahu, a special forces commander in Israel Defense Force’s elite Sayeret Matkal unit, sacrificed his life during the famous Operation Entebbe to rescue a hundred Jewish hostages kidnapped and taken to Uganda by the Palestinian terrorists in July 1976. Now, Prime Minister Benjamin […]

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Khalistan: British PM Sunak calls Canada’s Trudeau to de-escalate tension with India

October 7, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: In a fresh move by the West to persuade Canada to get its bilateral relations with India back to normal, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau on Friday to de-escalate tension with New Delhi. The two leaders underscored the importance of de-escalation of the India-Canada […]

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Roving Periscope: The US tries to woo China back from Russia; Biden-Xi may meet in Nov

October 6, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As bilateral tensions between the US and China flow and ebb on multiple issues, President Joe Biden may meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in San Francisco in November. San Francisco will host an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in November. President Xi Jinping, who recently skipped the G-20 Summit […]

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