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‘Contamination’: Britain tightens scrutiny of all Indian spice imports

May 16, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Millions of South Asians living in the United Kingdom may be deprived of some spices and condiments after London tightened scrutiny of all Indian spice imports in the wake of the controversies globally because of alleged ‘contamination.’ In the most stringent crackdown so far impacting all Indian spices, the UK’s Food […]

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AstraZeneca Admits of Blood Clots but in “Very Rare Cases”

April 30, 2024 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Apr 30: Global pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has said its AZD1222 vaccine against Covid-19, which was made under licence in India as Covishield, could cause low platelet counts and formation of blood clots in “very rare” cases. AstraZeneca has accepted a link between the vaccine and Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), a medical condition […]

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COVID-19: China expels from Parliament its top vaccine scientist for ‘graft’

April 29, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) has expelled the country’s top scientist Yang Xiaoming, who developed the first inactivated COVID-19 vaccine at the height of the pandemic in 2020, from Parliament for alleged corruption. Yang Xiaoming, the chairman of China National Pharmaceutical Group’s vaccine subsidiary China National Biotec Group (CNBG), has been […]

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The US elections: Despite the assurance, China seeks to “influence and interfere”

April 27, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that America has seen “evidence” of Chinese attempts to “influence and arguably interfere” with the upcoming Presidential elections in America—despite Chinese President Xi Jinping’s earlier commitment not to do so. He made these comments in an interview with CNN on Friday while […]

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

April 25, 2024 virendra pandit

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]