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Water luxury: UN says bottled water industry can undermine safe water goal for all

March 18, 2023 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: A day after Tata Consumer Products called off the talks with Bisleri International, to potentially acquire it for nearly Rs. 7,000 crores, a United Nations report said the rapidly growing bottled water industry can undermine progress towards a key sustainable development goal: Safe water for all. Based on data from 109 […]

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Campa Cola: Reliance relaunches iconic beverage brand in India; to challenge foreign colas

March 10, 2023 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The 50-year-old iconic soft drink brand, Campa Cola, is back in India. The Reliance Group acquired this popular soft drink brand recently for a relaunch across the Indian market, the media reported on Friday. Campa-Cola was the beverage of choice in India until replaced by other foreign ones, like Pepsi […]

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Image makeover: A year after turmoil, China assures Colombo of IMF bailout

March 7, 2023 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Nearly a year after Sri Lanka declared default amid widespread economic and political turmoil—which ended the China-friendly Rajapakse dynasty’s long stranglehold on the island nation—Beijing has mercifully assured Colombo to support Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring. This comes days after China similarly assured its ‘all-weather friend’ Pakistan also as a face-saver […]

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Pakistan: Imran evades arrest, media regulator bans his speeches on TV

March 6, 2023 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Hours after controversial former Prime Minister Imran Khan dodged arrest in the Toshakhana corruption case and made ‘provocative statements’ against state institutions on Sunday, Pakistan’s electronic media watchdog banned satellite TV channels from broadcasting his live and recorded speeches with immediate effect. Evading arrest, Khan, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman, […]

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Roving Periscope: Amid multiple challenges and lower GDP growth, China hikes defense budget

March 6, 2023 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With US President Joe Biden and many other American leaders, cutting across party lines, warning against China’s increasing hegemony and belligerence, Beijing has increased its defense budget for 2023 by 7.2 percent despite its lowest economic growth in 25 years in a post-Covid recovery year. According to the media reports, […]

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CPEC: To protect USD 62 bn investment, China throws a USD 1.3 billion lifeline at drowning Pakistan

March 4, 2023 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid apprehensions that the Afghan Taliban-supported Tehreeke-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTK) and the Baluch terrorists could target the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) infrastructure projects and Gwadar Port, Beijing on Saturday approved a USD 1.3 billion loan for cash-strapped Islamabad to wean it away from declaring a Sri Lanka-type default in the coming […]

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Road to 2024: China the strongest and the most disciplined “enemy”, says Nikki Haley

March 4, 2023 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The level of superpower rivalry between the US and China showed up on Friday when Republican presidential aspirant, Indian-American politician Nikki Haley, warned that China is the strongest and the most-disciplined “enemy” that America has ever faced. The next US presidential election is due on November 5, 2024. In a […]

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Roving Periscope: ‘Outcome document’, not “joint statement” in G-20 FMM, too

March 2, 2023 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, cast its shadow on the last year’s G-20 meeting in Indonesia. This year, the conflict may be eclipsing the G-20 bloc’s ongoing meetings in India. As in the recent Bengaluru meeting of finance ministers and central bank chiefs, […]

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G-20 FMM: Global governance has failed to prevent wars; common interests ignored, says PM Modi

March 2, 2023 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said multilateralism is in crisis today and the failure of the global architecture of governance is affecting developing countries the most. Inaugurating the first foreign ministers’ meeting (FMM) of G-20 nations here in 2023, he said “The architecture of global governance created after the […]

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Telecom: With 3 years’ target surpassed in 6 months, India to expand 5-G services

March 1, 2023 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: In a rare feat, as the Indian telecommunication companies have surpassed the three-year 5-G rollout target given to them within six months, the government is all set to enhance the adoption of 5-G applications across various key segments in India. According to the media reports, quoting VL Kantha Rao, Additional […]

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