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Roving Periscope: Hamas releases 2 American captives as aid starts flowing in from Egypt

October 21, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Before launching a massive ground attack into the Gaza Strip, Israel is still giving a long rope to Hamas, which released two American hostages as hundreds of thousands of Gazans anxiously waited for their turn to get the much-need humanitarian aid that started flowing in from Egypt on Saturday. The […]

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Roving Periscope: After Biden fails, British PM Sunak tries to contain Hamas conflgration in Arab world

October 20, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: After the hospital blast this week, which allegedly killed some 500 people in Gaza and enraged the Muslims the world over, the Palestinians claimed on Friday that several people died in a mosque targeted by Israel, which awaited the most opportune moment to push its ground assault into the Gaza […]

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Roving Periscope: As British PM Sunak visits, Israel pauses, allows aid, and gives a long rope to Hamas

October 19, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: After pounding the Gaza Strip for nearly two weeks and amassing troops and weapons in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation, Israel might be giving a long rope to the Hamas terror group to make its next move, as Tel Aviv allowed limited aid from the Egyptian border to flow into the war-ravaged […]

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Roving Periscope: Hospital blast kills over 500 in Gaza; Biden’s Jordan meet with Arab leaders called off

October 18, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: After a mysterious blast, that killed over 500 people in a Gaza hospital overnight and Hamas and Israel blamed each other for, US President Joe Biden landed in Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning, surprised that his proposed meeting with Arab leaders in Jordan later in the day has been canceled […]

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Roving Periscope: President Biden to visit Israel, Jordan on Wednesday to contain Hamas inferno

October 17, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: With a grievously bruised Israel determined to annihilate Hamas, and level to the ground its stronghold Gaza Strip— and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s whirlwind shuttle diplomacy to prevent a conflagration in the Middle East yielding little, a worried US President Joe Biden is visiting the Jewish state on […]

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Food: Zomato, Big Mac fined Rs.1 lakh for delivering non-veg to a veg customer

October 13, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: As large parts of India prepare for the onset of Navaratri on Sunday and observe fast or stick to vegetarian food, a consumer court has imposed a fine of Rs. One lakh on online food ordering and delivering platform Zomato and its restaurant partner McDonald’s for allegedly delivering non-vegetarian food […]

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A new menace: Bedbug epidemic in Paris; rodents ‘take over’ parts of Kolkata

October 5, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: India’s Kolkata is waiting for a pied-piper to rid the metropolis of its innumerable rodents who are eating even a ‘bridge like a cake’. Thousands of miles away, the French are faced with an unprecedented ‘national emergency’ and praying to keep the bedbug menace away lest it repel the millions […]

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Green logistics: Essar’s GreenLine to invest Rs. 200 cr, inks deal with Hindustan Zinc

October 4, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Mumbai: In a significant step towards sustainability and environmental responsibility, Vedanta Group’s Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL), India’s largest and only integrated producer of zinc, lead, and silver, has signed a deal with Essar Group’s GreenLine Mobility Solutions Ltd for the deployment of LNG-powered fleet in its supply and transportation operations. GreenLine will invest Rs. 200 […]

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Good news: Joblessness lowest in one year, says CMIE

October 2, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Contrary to the Opposition’s claims of rising unemployment, India’s joblessness rate dropped to a one-year low in September as unemployment in rural areas fell despite weak monsoon rains this year, the media reported on Monday. The overall joblessness rate slid to 7.09 percent in September, from 8.10 percent in August, […]

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Essar: Vertex is now EET Hydrogen, commences FEED for its HPP2 plant

September 25, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Mumbai: Essar Oil’s UK arm Vertex Hydrogen on Monday announced its plan to switch to a new brand identity, EET Hydrogen, as it looks to become a major pillar in the group’s energy transition. This change is a natural progression in the development of the company from an early-stage idea into the leading hydrogen production […]

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