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Good News: India a “bright spot,” its economy to grow at 6.7% in 2024, says the UN

May 17, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid worldwide recessionary trends, hyperinflation in many countries, and the US economy threatened with a debt-cap crisis next month, the Indian economy has continued to perform exceptionally well among major nations and is now expected to grow at 6.7 percent next year, making it the fastest growing economy on the planet. […]

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Defence

Pakistan: Ex-PM Imran Khan arrested; Islamabad HC asks why?

May 9, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Nearly a year after he lost power in Pakistan, former Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, 70, was on Tuesday arrested in Islamabad, in what is seen as a tipping point pushing the terror-infested and bankrupt South Asian country closer than ever to a civil war. Commandoes of paramilitary forces, […]

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Business

War: Ukraine denies hand in Kremlin drone attack; Russia accuses the US of involvement

May 4, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Russia on Thursday accused the US of involvement in what it said was a drone attack on the Kremlin on Wednesday, aiming to kill Vladimir Putin, as a former President sought to ‘physically eliminate’ Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenski who denied his country used the drone to kill the Russian President. […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: From the back door, Europe imports Russian oil—via India!

April 28, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: How do times change? Five centuries ago, post-Crusades Europe depended on India and other Asian countries for the supply of spices and condiments to preserve the meat of cattle for extreme winters—the chief reason why the Europeans gradually colonized South and Southeast Asia for an unhindered supply of those natural […]

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Defense: After the US and China, India is the third-largest military spender

April 24, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After the United States and China, India has emerged as the planet’s third-largest military spender at USD 76.6 billion this year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a global report on Monday. India (11 percent), Saudi Arabia (9.6 percent), and Qatar (6.4 percent) are the world’s largest […]

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Business

Revanchism: To push its own Taiwan designs, China almost ‘justifies’ Russian invasion of Ukraine

April 24, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After wooing France, a revanchist China, like Russia, is trying to turn the clock back. And to buttress its claims as ‘righteous’ on Taiwan, it has given a new twist to the Ukraine saga: Beijing has claimed that the former Soviet Union’s breakaway republics, including Ukraine, have “no actual status […]

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Business

Monkey biz: After buying dogs and donkeys from Pakistan, China set to buy monkeys from Sri Lanka!

April 20, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi:  Even after the world accused it of being the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, believed to have originated from the wet markets of Wuhan, China has refused to learn that it cannot fiddle with nature. After buying dogs and donkeys from Pakistan in 2022, it is now set to purchase […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Pak FM Bilawal to lead a ‘delegation’ to SCO meet in India

April 20, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the grandson of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who, in 1972, had vowed to fight the war against India for a “thousand years,” will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers’ meeting at Goa next month. India and Pakistan became permanent members of the […]

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Business

Trade: At over $128 bn, the US became India’s biggest trading partner in FY23

April 17, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With increasing, strengthening, and deepening economic ties between the two countries, the USA emerged as India’s biggest trading partner in 2022-23, according to the provisional data of the Union Commerce Ministry. The bilateral trade between India and the US increased by 7.65 percent to USD 128.55 in 2022-23, compared to USD […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Pak turning into a ‘zombie state’, says its own top economist

April 17, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Pakistan Prime Minister Mian Mohammad Shehbaz Sharif, who has desperately been seeking financial bailouts from whoever would extend a lifeline, famously said “Beggars cannot be choosers.” His Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif openly declared a few weeks ago that Pakistan was already bankrupt. Now, Pakistan’s leading economist and former government […]

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