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Roving Periscope: With Finance Track, India starts rolling out year-long G20 meetings

December 12, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After the inaugural Sherpa Track Meeting of India’s G20 Presidency, held on December 4 at Udaipur, Rajasthan, the first meeting of the Finance Track of the Group involving central bank officials and finance ministry bureaucrats of the member countries, or the Finance and Central Bank Deputies (FCBD), will start in […]

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Defence

Roving Periscope: No Zero Covid policy may now overwhelm China with infections!

December 9, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After three years of stringent Zero Covid policy, China’s rapid abandonment of mass testing, lockdowns, and centralized quarantine may overwhelm the world’s most populous country with fresh waves of infections, ahead of the Chinese New Lunar Year on January 22, 2023, when millions of holidaying people traditionally migrate within the […]

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Defence

Ukraine: Western sanctions-hit Russia requests India to provide over 500 spare parts

November 29, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Severely hit because of the West and its allies’ comprehensive sanctions, the invasion of Ukraine which Russia started on February 24 this year is now biting Moscow itself, forcing it to request New Delhi to deliver spare parts for hundreds of products urgently. According to the reports on Tuesday, Russia’s […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: China tries to douse nationwide fires of unrest, woo investors back

November 29, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Worried over the security forces’ apparent reluctance to crush the widespread protests across the country—the Sri Lankan police officers joined protesters six months ago!—China is attempting to douse the countrywide protests against mounting multiple crises by adopting a combination of soft measures like subtly censoring social media and quietly easing […]

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Roving Periscope: China trembles as the pandemic cocks a snook at Zero-Covid policy

November 28, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As widespread protests against China’s brutal Zero-Covid policy multiplied across the country, where nearly 100 towns and cities are under lockdowns over the fresh outbreak of the infections, panicked investors readied for a dip as markets opened in Asia on Monday to grim reports of growing unrest in the world’s […]

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Business

Global slowdown: S&P hopeful, but cuts India’s growth forecast in FY23 to 7%

November 28, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With shadows of global slowdown advancing across the planet like an eclipse, S&P Global Ratings on Monday cut the forecast for India’s economic growth in 2022-23 from 7.3 percent earlier to 7 percent now, but said the domestic demand-led economy, now the fifth largest in the world, will be less impacted […]

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Business

Energy terror: Russia weaponizes winter, begins to freeze defiant Ukraine

November 24, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine entered the ninth month on Thursday, it has now weaponized bitter winter to freeze its war-torn neighbor, many of whose areas plunged into darkness amid water, food, and fuel shortages. Now, Russia is likely to tighten the screws on Europe as well. Moscow […]

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Ukraine: “It’s the beginning of the war’s end,” says President Zelensky

November 15, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Although Russia has only tactically retreated a part of its armed forces from Kherson it occupied months ago, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a surprise visit to the ‘liberated’ area, on Monday exuded confidence that it’s the “beginning of the end of the war.” According to reports, Russia pulled back […]

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Business

G20 Summit: India to get 50% of electricity from renewables by 2030, says PM Modi

November 15, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: India is pushing ahead with the target of generating 50 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the Group of 20 (G20) Summit at Bali, Indonesia, on Tuesday, as he ruled out “any restrictions” on energy supply and stability. The two-day Summit […]

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Business

Covid-19: Brutal lockdowns trigger rare protests in China’s Guangzhou City

November 15, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: From angry and widespread protests—accompanied by loud slogans like “Let it Rot”, to “Lie Down”—the Chinese people’s frustrations over the brutal implementation of the Zero Covid policy to confine them behind doors, found a vent in violence in Guangzhou City where hundreds of people clashed with police as they marched […]

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