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Season’s worries: Ahead of Assembly elections, onion prices up, demand down

October 31, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It happens almost every year when the gap between two crops shoots the prices up. As five state assemblies go to the polls in the coming weeks, the onion prices have gone through the roof across India in the last 10 days. This price rise has pulled down the bulb’s […]

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Energy: Sri Lanka renews Lanka-IOC petroleum license for 20 years

October 30, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Sri Lanka has renewed the Lanka-Indian Oil Corporation (LIOC)’s petroleum products license for another 20 years. The Lanka-IOC is the local subsidiary of the IOC in the island nation next door to India. The media reported on Monday that the license, originally issued in 2003, was to expire in January […]

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Canada: “Trudeau incompetent…will restore ties with India,” says Oppn chief

October 25, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is ‘incompetent and unprofessional’, Conservative Party and opposition leader Pierre Poilievre said on Tuesday and vowed to ‘restore relationship with New Delhi’ if he becomes the next PM. “We need a professional relationship with the Indian government. India is the largest democracy on Earth. And it’s […]

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UNSC: India snubs Pak attempts to link Kashmir with Palestine

October 25, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India has said it will treat Pakistan’s reference to Kashmir at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on the Israel-Gaza conflict with the “contempt it deserves,” and will not dignify it with a response. The remarks by India’s Deputy Permanent Representative at the UN, Ambassador R Ravindra, came on […]

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Electricity: ‘By 2050, India’s ACs would consume more power than entire Africa’

October 24, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India is geographically larger than Europe, minus Russia’s European part, and the British called the South Asian country a ‘subcontinent.’ By 2050, however, the air-conditioners installed in a rising India will alone consume more electricity than an entire continent—Africa—will do. India’s demand for electricity for running household air conditioners is […]

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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 […]