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Catastrophe: Over 280 mn in 59 countries faced acute hunger in 2023, says FAO

April 25, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nearly 282 million people in 59 countries suffered from acute hunger in 2023, with war-torn Gaza having the largest number of people facing famine, according to the United Nations “Global Report on Food Crises” released on Wednesday. It said 24 million more people faced an acute lack of food than in […]

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Viksit Bharat: As PM Modi sets the tone, bureaucrats discuss new goals for his 3rd term

April 5, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi, confident of winning a third term in a row following the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, giving them a go-ahead, bureaucrats in the government are currently busy discussing the new draft policies and goals achievable in the next five years. The election campaign for the Lower House […]

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EFTA deal: Cheaper good from Switzerland, three other European nations coming into India

March 11, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: From next year, Indian customers will start getting access to high-quality Swiss products—watches, chocolates, biscuits, and clocks—at lower prices as India will phase out customs duties in the coming years under its just-concluded trade pact with the EFTA bloc on these goods. India and the four-European nation bloc EFTA signed a […]

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Abortion: France, the largest Catholic nation, makes pregnancy termination a constitutional right

March 6, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Christian theology has taught the faithful—particularly over 1.3 billion Catholics—that abortion is an unpardonable sin. For centuries, the faithful have fought amongst themselves on this critical issue. Even now, the Republicans and the Democrats fight in the USA on whether abortion is a woman’s right. Now, France, the largest Catholic […]

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Price rise: CMIE’s inflation projections lower than RBI’s

March 4, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Contrary to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s projections, the leading economic think tank, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), said on Monday the country’s inflation may decline for two years in a row. It is likely to fall to 4.3 percent in 2024-25 from 5.4 percent in 2023-24, which […]

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Economy: Moody’s ups India growth forecast to 6.8% for 2024

March 4, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Global rating agency Moody’s on Monday raised India’s growth forecast for the 2024 calendar year to 6.8 percent, from 6.1 percent estimated earlier, on the back of ‘stronger-than-expected’ economic data of 2023 and fading global economic headwinds. This forecast came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, exuding confidence in the […]

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Roving Periscope: “National extinction” fears worry China, Japan, South Korea, and more…

February 29, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Imagine China, the world’s most populous country until November 2023, reporting no new birth at all in two months of 2024… a South Korean businessman offering USD 75,000 as a bonus to each of his workers for producing a kid…and Japan is worried about its increasingly emptying roads… For, population, statisticians […]

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Budget highlights: Good news on fiscal deficit, infra, SHGs, green energy…and more

February 1, 2024 revoi editor

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Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The following are the key takeaways from the Interim Budget 2024 that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled in Parliament on Thursday. The Interim Union Budget for the financial year 2024-25 focused on fiscal consolidation, infrastructure, agriculture, green growth, and railways. However, no changes were made in the tax rates, disappointing […]

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529 Fresh COVID cases on Wednesday

December 27, 2023 Editor In Chief

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NEW DELHI, Dec 27: Even as India recorded 529 fresh COVID-19 cases in a single day on Wednesday, the union health ministry reported a wide gap between the first and second vaccine doses compared to the booster doses administered to the eligible people across the country. According to the data released by the health ministry […]

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WHO Clears Second Malaria Vaccine Produced by SII

December 21, 2023 Editor In Chief

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NEW DELHI, Dec 21: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday prequalified a second malaria vaccine developed by Oxford University and manufactured by Serum Institute of India (SII). In October, WHO had recommended the use of this R21 vaccine to prevent malaria in children following the advice of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts […]

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