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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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The Bug Returns: China, the US, Brazil, S. Korea, Japan…back on the Covid-19 map

December 21, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With India returning to the mask-and-sanitation regime, Covid-19 threatens to overwhelm not only China but also the US, South Korea, Brazil, Japan, and several other countries as their ships and aircraft potentially turn into carriers of the pandemic in the next few weeks, the media reported. With fresh coronavirus waves […]

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Roving Periscope: After ‘Zero Covid’ collapse, China may face 3 killer waves in 3 months

December 21, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As China’s budget deficit hit a record low of USD 1.1 trillion this year because of the Zero Covid slump, the world’s second-largest economy is now headed to face its worst-ever year in decades—experts have warned of three killer waves of the highly-infectious Omicron’s B.7 variant in the next three […]

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Economy: World Bank slashes Covid-battered China’s growth to 2.7%

December 20, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The surest sign of what China, the world’s second-largest economy, may face in 2023, came from the World Bank on Tuesday when it slashed its 2022 China growth forecast predicted in June at 4.3 percent to 2.7 percent now. Various reports have suggested that China could be overwhelmed with a […]

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Roving Periscope: Curbs gone, now China may face over two million Covid-19 deaths in 2023

December 20, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: For the first time since 1949, Communist-ruled China briefly became a ‘People’s Republic’ in November when, under extreme pressure because of the widespread protests against the Zero Covid policy across the country, it suddenly lifted brutal tactics to keep the potential and real pandemic victims behind doors. But this has […]

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The Sunrise: India to be a $5-tr economy by FY25, says Gadkari; USD 30 tr by 2047, says Tata Sons chief

December 16, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Union Road Transport and Highways and MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said India, the world’s fastest-growing major economy, is all set to achieve a GDP worth USD 5 trillion by the financial year 2024-25. And Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran said India can look forward to becoming a USD […]

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Covid-19: As China’s pandemic numbers go up, economic numbers slide down

December 15, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit     New Delhi: China is a classic example of the phrase: ‘You are damned if you do, and you are damned if you don’t!’ Its brutal Zero Covid policy kept the factories closed and people locked at home for weeks and months until protests forced the government to abandon it in November; […]

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Tory Pariwar: Six weeks into office, British PM Rishi Sunak faces a fresh revolt!

December 12, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: A century ago, India was the ‘Jewel in the British Crown.’ In the 2020s, India’s Janata Pariwar experiments in political and economic instability, of the 1970s and 1990s vintage, may have shifted to Great Britain, which currently has an Indian-origin Prime Minister in Rishi Sunak Just six weeks into office, […]

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