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Good news? ADB to give $ 2bn annually as fresh loans to Pakistan!

September 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A nearly bankrupt and failing state, Pakistan, woke up on Tuesday to a piece of news it didn’t know if it was good or bad for national honor: the Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) has assured Islamabad that it would get USD 2 billion per annum, as fresh loans, every year, […]

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States: West Bengal’s economy declined from the early 1960s

September 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: West Bengal, which held the third-largest share of national GDP at 10.5 percent in 1960-61, now accounts for only 5.6 percent in 2023-24, and has seen a consistent decline throughout this period, a government report has said. The state, whose largest city Calcutta (now Kolkata) was the British Raj’s capital in […]

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Roving Periscope: “Bullets are flying, and it will only get worse,” says Trump as he blames Biden and Harris

September 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life on Sunday, US President Joe Biden held a “cordial” phone call with his predecessor and the Republican Party’s nominee who is trying to reoccupy the White House after the November 5 presidential election, the media reported. The phone call on Monday came […]

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Pakistan: Now, terrorists use PUBG features to avoid surveillance!

September 16, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Before they launched an attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on August 28, terrorists used the popular video game PUBG’s features to avoid being tracked by Pakistan intelligence officials, the media reported on Monday. According to the English daily Dawn, terrorists used features from PlayerUnknown’s BattleGrounds (PUBG), a popular video game, to […]

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Renewable energy: PM invites global firms to invest in India’s green energy transition

September 16, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday invited global companies to invest in India’s ongoing green energy transition where, his minister Prahlad Joshi, said USD 386 billion worth of investments have already been committed. Inaugurating the Fourth Global Re-Invest Renewable Energy Investors’ Meet, in Gandhinagar, PM Modi said India was the “best […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump survives another assassination attempt; one held

September 16, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Ahead of the high-profile presidential election on November 5, now barely 50 days away, and nearly nine weeks after the first attempt on his life, Republican nominee Donald Trump survived another assassination attempt at a Florida golf club on Sunday, the media reported. Trump was the target on Sunday of “what […]

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The POTUS poll: Stuck at the ISS, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore to vote from space!

September 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Indian-origin veteran astronaut Sunita Williams and her fellow NASA colleague Butch Wilmore plan to vote from space to elect the next President of the United States (POTUS) on November 5, 2024. The two astronauts, who took off aboard Boeing’s Starliner on June 5, 2024, for a week but got stuck in […]

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Roving Periscope: The Dragon is fast-aging; China to hike retirement ages

September 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For decades, China had the dubious distinction of being the world’s most populous nation. In 2022-23, India replaced China on this count. But now China faces the twin threats of a growing aging population and a shrinking workforce because of a low birth rate, forcing it to consider raising its statutory […]

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Ukraine: Russia ‘expels’ 6 British diplomats as tensions mount over missiles

September 13, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid Track II diplomatic efforts for a potential ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, who have been fighting an inconclusive war since February 2022, Moscow on Friday announced the expulsion of six British diplomats from the country, accusing them of engaging in espionage and sabotage work, the media reported. However, the British […]

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Roving Periscope: Biden’s final push to ‘re-energize’ Quad on Sept 21

September 13, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: To dispel the impression that his four-year presidency weakened the progress of ‘Asian NATO,’ aimed at containing China’s expansionist ambitions, outgoing US President Joe Biden is giving a final push to ‘re-energize’ the four-democracy organization, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), on September 21. He will host the final Quad Summit of […]