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Roving Periscope: Covid-19 surge forces President Xi to admit challenges ahead

January 2, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit     New Delhi: Ahead of the scary Lunar New Year on January 22 amid a Covid-19 tsunami across the land, Chinese President Xi Jinping said tough challenges remain in the country’s fight against the pandemic and acknowledged divisions in society that led to rare spontaneous mass protests in November across the land. […]

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Roving Periscope: Amid Covid-19 catastrophe, WHO team meets Chinese officials

December 31, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: A team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) met with Chinese officials on Friday as the Asian country battled its worst-ever health crisis because of an unprecedented outbreak of the scourge this month that has left millions infected and thousands dead. In 2020, when Covid-19 assaulted the world, […]

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Roving Periscope: Is China following a ‘scorched earth’ policy on Covid-19?

December 29, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The way it rode the roughshod and stonewalled all attempts to investigate the cases when Covid-19 broke out in 2020, and then across the world, China’s current tactics and strategy have given rise to speculations whether it might be following a ‘scorched earth’ policy— a military strategy that aims to […]

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India-Australia FTA: Effective today, trade to triple to $70 bn in 5 years

December 29, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The India-Australia free trade agreement (FTA), which came into effect on Thursday, will help boost bilateral trade in goods and services to cross USD 70 billion in the next five years, an economic think said. The two countries signed the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA) on April 2 this […]

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Covid-19: ‘Not one but a cocktail of 4 Omicron variants roiling China’

December 28, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid China’s Covid explosion, which has infected millions and killed thousands this month, a top Indian expert said not one but four variants of the highly contagious Omicron strain are roiling the Asian country in its worst-ever health crisis. Dr. NK Arora, who heads the Government of India’s Covid-19 panel, […]

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Roving Periscope: Russia retaliates against oil price-cap as war rages on in Ukraine

December 28, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As its ongoing war in Ukraine entered the 10th month, Russia retaliated on Tuesday against a price cap on its oil imposed by western countries, while its rather reluctant armed forces got involved in heavy fighting around the bombed-out ghost town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, the media reported on […]

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Extreme weather: ‘Bomb cyclone’ kills 32 in the US as millions freeze in the darkness

December 26, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: A relentless and brutal winter storm that brought Christmas chaos to millions of Americans will dissipate only slowly, the US National Weather Service (NWS) said on Monday, after intense snow and frigid cold caused power outages, travel delays, and at least 32 deaths across the eastern part of the country. […]

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Roving Periscope: ‘Bomb cyclone’ forecast panics 200 mn people in the US, Canada

December 24, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: A record-breaking, once-in-a-generation snowstorm is freezing the USA and Canada on Christmas. A day ahead of Christmas, as millions of people packed bags to celebrate the world’s biggest festival and holiday season, a deep freeze gripped the United States and Canada, where the forecast of an arctic ‘bomb cyclone’ panicked […]

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Roving Periscope: Seeking support, Putin goes to Belarus, Zelensky to the US

December 22, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Frustrated over Russia’s failure to tame Ukraine despite shelling it relentlessly for 10 months, President Vladimir Putin asked his reluctant soldiers to do more and sought ally Belarus to open a second front, as his rival President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the US to bolster support to Kyiv to push back […]

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Covid-19: China may already be suffering with 1 mn infections and 5,000 deaths daily

December 22, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With the exponential spread of coronavirus, China is estimated to be already suffering with one million Covid-19 infections and around 5,000 deaths every day, the media reported on Thursday. The current virus wave sweeping the Asian giant may witness a daily case rise to 3.7 million infections in January and […]

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