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Roving Periscope: Are Jaishankar and Doval preparing the ground for the Russia-Ukraine peace meet?

September 12, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Russia and Ukraine in July and August, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, currently visiting various capitals, seem to be preparing the ground for a potential Russia-Ukraine peace meeting in India. Without sharing details, the Ministry of External Affairs in […]

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Economy: India to drive a fifth of global growth in the next decade, says Kant

September 12, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India is set to drive around 20 percent of the global economic growth in the next decade as it relentlessly marches to become the world’s third-largest economy, G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant said on Thursday. Addressing the All-India Management Association (AIMA) convention in the national capital, he said the South Asian country […]

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Technology: PM Modi promotes ‘silicon diplomacy’ for semiconductor revolution

September 11, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday unveiled the goal to grow India’s electronics sector, currently valued at more than USD 150 billion, to make it worth USD 500 billion, with the potential to create six million jobs by 2030. “The world is now moving forward from an era of oil diplomacy […]

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Roving Periscope: Kamala may trump Trump to become the first woman US President

September 11, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After an assassination attempt on him in July, that left him with a bandaged right ear, the Time magazine aptly described Donald Trump as the “Man of the Ear.” His popularity suddenly soared and the incumbent Joe Biden lost his second shot at the White House to his deputy Kamala Harris […]

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Social media “scourge”: Australia to legally ban users under 16 years of age

September 10, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Although analysts are doubting its technological feasibility, Australia is considering introducing legislation this year to ban access to social media outlets by users under 16 years of age. Even the Opposition will support it, the media reported on Tuesday. The minimum age for children to log into social media sites including […]

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Roving Periscope: In Europe’s Far-Right season, the new French PM also turns right!

September 7, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: If the centrist French President Emmanuel Macron has gambled on appointing a Conservative Prime Minister to ‘course correct’ and avert the inexorable rise of the Far Right, he may regret his decision much before the next presidential election in 2027. For, the new PM, Michel Barnier, has hinted at his rightward […]

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The USofA: WH asks a smirking Putin to keep off polls; he now supports Harris!

September 6, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Despite stagnation and a series of recent reverses—Ukraine, economy, geopolitics, etc.—Russian President Vladimir Putin, 71, has managed to laugh at the bete noire, relish the campaign of the main contenders during the ongoing presidential elections, and the discomfiture of the White House! Irritated, the White House called Thursday on Putin to […]

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Roving Periscope: Pro-Khalistani NDP may now inch closer to Canada’s Conservatives to save its skin

September 6, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Sensing that the unpopular Liberal Party may lose power next year, the pro-Khalistani New Democratic Party (NDP) has pulled out support to the Justine Trudeau government and may inch closer to the Conservatives to avert a possible crackdown on the anti-India outfit by the next rulers. Canadian Leader of Opposition and […]

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Roving Periscope: War-fatigued, Putin wants peace, and shifts Ukraine talks focus on BRICS bloc!

September 5, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the third biting winter approaches after the Russia-Ukraine war began in 2022, a war-fatigued President Putin may now be looking for an honorable exit from the prolonging zero-sum conflict and shift the focus of potential peace talks involving the West and its allies to the BRICS bloc—Brazil (Russia), India, China […]

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Singapore: Wary of China, PMs Modi and Wong elevate ties to “comprehensive strategic partnership”

September 5, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After his successful visit to the island nation of Brunei at the edge of the South China Sea, the first by an Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, and his Singaporean counterpart Lawrence Wong elevated the bilateral ties to a “comprehensive strategic partnership,” the media reported on Thursday. Soon after arrival from […]