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Roving Periscope: Ousting its first House Speaker, the US makes history since 1776

October 4, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Come September, we all have springs in our feet. But as the month of October approaches each year, the world’s attention gets focused on the United States, Sweden, and Norway. On Washington, because the Opposition ritually flexes its muscles and tries to stall the Administration’s funding ahead of the new […]

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Roving Periscope: India tightens screws, asks Canada to pull back 41 diplomats by Oct 10

October 3, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: After waiting for Canada to take concrete steps against the Khalistanis, criminals, and drug peddlers it has sheltered over the years, India warned it again on Tuesday and asked the North American country to pull out 41 of its diplomats deployed in the country by October 10, the media reported. […]

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Roving Periscope: After terror and donkeys, Pakistan now ‘exports’ beggars!

September 29, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: In an acute embarrassment to Pakistan, its co-religionist nations like Saudi Arabia, and Iraq have asked the nearly bankrupt South Asian country to stop ‘exporting’ beggars! Not surprising though because, according to reports, a tenth of the Pakistani population—25 million in a country of nearly 250 million–resorts to begging either […]

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Joe the First: US President Biden himself joins agitating workers against automakers!

September 28, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Trust politicians to do anything they can to woo voters. But it can happen only in America. In an unprecedented move, Joe Biden joined agitating auto workers on the picket line in Michigan on Tuesday in a historic first for a sitting US president, a day before rival Donald Trump […]

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Grain: ‘Ungrateful’, Ukraine complaints against Poland, others in WTO

September 22, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Although the West and its allies are still helping Ukraine with funds and arms in its war against Russia, the war-torn victim nation is now earning the wrath of those helping it as an ‘ungrateful’ country. In particular, Poland, which has sheltered over 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees, is both angry […]

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Pakistan: Nawaz to return in Oct, take on army bosses; polls in January 2024

September 21, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: With three-time Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, who has been in self-exile in London since 2019, announcing his return home next month and making the bosses in the army and judiciary “accountable”, the stage is being set for yet another stormy General Elections to the National Assembly in Pakistan in […]

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Roving Periscope: On the Khalistani issue, India and Canada expel each others’ diplomats

September 19, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The so-called pro-Khalistani separatists may have lost support in India but they have successfully blackmailed the minority government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau they support in faraway Canada to expel a top Indian diplomat and, in return, get back a top Canadian diplomat whom New Delhi expelled on Tuesday. India […]

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In the same boat: After Donald Trump, President Biden also faces ‘impeachment’

September 14, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: His predecessor Donald Trump faced two impeachments during his term (2017-21) and is still embroiled in various court cases. Now, US President Joe Biden, 80, is also facing an impeachment inquiry on his allegedly ‘lying’ about his son Hunter’s controversial business deals over a decade ago in China and Ukraine. […]

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Roving Periscope: To legitimize annexation, Putin holds sham ‘polls’ in occupied Ukraine areas!

September 8, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Although he is skipping the two-day G-20 Summit in New Delhi, beginning on Saturday—he will not even address it virtually!—Russian President Vladimir Putin is all set to showcase his ‘democratic’ side—to get votes for his candidates at gun-point in the occupied areas of Ukraine where Moscow is waging a relentless, […]

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G-20 Summit: With Putin and Xi abstaining, the Modi-Biden duo to steal the show next week

September 4, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Would the Group of 20 (G-20) be eventually overshadowed by the G-7, and become ‘irrelevant’ just like the erstwhile Non-Alignment Movement (NAM), the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), and the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)? Will the Global South, formerly the “Third […]

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