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Roving Periscope: Post-BBC and Adani episodes, investors relook at India’s robust growth story

February 3, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The geopolitical manipulators’ attempts to force India to join the western camp ahead of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine entering its second year on February 24—the BBC’s sponsored purported ‘documentary’ against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Hindenburg Research recycling old Adani records, in the public domain for years, […]

Business

Economy: India to be the third largest by 2027-28, says Panagariya

February 2, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Professor Arvind Panagariya, former Vice-Chairman of NITI Ayog, has said India is on the cusp of returning to a post-Covid high growth trajectory, making it a strong candidate to become the world’s third-largest economy by 2027-28. The eminent economist, who teaches at Columbia University, USA, said India is already the […]

Business

Budget@24: Free ration for a year, push to the farm sector

February 1, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With global geopolitical, economic, and Covid uncertainties persisting, and ahead of crucial elections to the nine Vidhan Sabhas and the Lok Sabha in the months ahead, the government on Wednesday extended free ration support to the urban and rural poor for another year. In her Budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala […]

Defence

Easter bombings: Sri Lankan SC orders ex-Prez Sirisena, and others to compensate victims

January 13, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Supreme Court in Sri Lanka has found top government, police, and intelligence officials responsible for “failing to prevent” the 2019 Easter bombings in the island nation and ordered former President Maithripala Sirisena and others to pay millions of rupees as compensation to the victims. The Islamist serial suicide bombings, […]

Business

Roving Periscope: After Trump, Biden also caught in ‘classified documents’ imbroglio

January 13, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Just like his controversial predecessor Donald Trump, US President Joe Biden has also been caught keeping ‘classified documents’ at his private residence and may face a high-level Congressional inquiry. “When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House,” Trump wrote on […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Brazil goes the Sri Lankan way, with a dash from the US!

January 9, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In January 2020, pro-Donald Trump militants attacked the US Congress against the defeat of the former President in the November 2019 elections. In April 2021, anti-Rajapakse family Sri Lankans stormed into several important buildings, including the President’s Palace and Parliament, against an unprecedented economic crisis and forced President and the […]

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Roving Periscope: Now, the US House inherits Trump’s dysfunctionality!

January 6, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For decades, ‘experts’ in the UK and the US laughed at democratic tremors in India where political instability reigned for years. Now, the shoe is on the other leg: India is politically stable while America and Britain are feeling the heat of being the big daddies of democracy! Last year, the […]

Business

Demonetization: How it achieved its objectives—in J&K and UP!

January 2, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the Supreme Court, armed with a 4-1 majority, upholding the Narendra Modi Government’s 2016 decision to demonetize high-value old currency notes of Rs. 500 and Rs.1000, the spotlight is back on whether this significant step could really achieve its unsaid objectives. Critics, mostly merely politically motivated and unlettered in […]

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Roving Periscope: “White Revolution” rattles authoritarian China to the core

December 5, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: When Dr. Verghese Kurien launched “Operation Flood” in January 1970, he set in motion the world’s largest dairy development program later known as India’s White Revolution, which empowered millions of milk farmers. In contrast, the ongoing, youth-led “White Revolution” in China has rattled the Communist regime entrenched in the country […]

Business

Misusing social media: WhatsApp banned over 23 lakh Indian accounts in October

December 1, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With governments tightening screws to contain misuse of social media platforms, the European Union has warned Twitter to protect users from hate speech while WhatsApp said it banned over 23 lakh accounts in India in October alone. WhatsApp appears to be the most popular social media platform globally, with around […]