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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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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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