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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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Business

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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Business

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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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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