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Roving Periscope: No country wants Japan to release Fukushima waters in the Pacific Ocean

July 5, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Japan got a green signal from the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday for its plans to pump out and release 1.3 million tons of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean over the next few decades from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, but no country […]

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Roving Periscope: Canada’s domestic politics spoiling its relations with India

July 4, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Domestic political compulsions may have forced Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to go ‘soft’ on pro-Khalistani separatists in his North American country which has seen a recent spurt in violence by anti-Indian activists. The revitalized Khalistani separatists have resurfaced and attacked Indian interests in Canada, the US, and Australia, among […]

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Roving Periscope: PM Modi to host Putin, Xi, and others virtually in SCO Summit on Tuesday

July 3, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Ten days after the Wagner Group’s short-lived mutiny in Russia, its President Vladimir Putin will appear at the Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) hosted virtually by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. Besides President Putin, his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, among others, […]

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Cliffhanger: IMF approves Pak’s $3bn loan program; may be considered in two weeks

June 30, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Almost bankrupt Pakistan, facing a default on July 1, has clinched initial approval from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a USD 3 billion loan program, lowering the risk of a sovereign default, the media reported on Friday. The staff-level agreement is subject to approval by the IMF Executive Board, […]

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Farmers’ stir, Covid-19: Karnataka HC fines Twitter Rs. 50 lakhs, rejects its claims

June 30, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The Karnataka High Court on Friday dismissed global microblogging platform Twitter’s plea against the Union Ministry of Information Technology’s order to block its content about the farmers’ agitation and the pandemic and directed it to pay a fine of Rs. 50 lakhs. “You are not a farmer but a billion-dollar […]

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Warriors: As the war with Russia rages, 2,300 Indian students return to Ukraine

June 29, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid outcry from their worried parents, over 23,000 Indian students returned home when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Now, a tenth of them have returned to the war-torn nation which has faced wanton destruction in the last 16 months and is short on supplies of everything. After a […]

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Roving Periscope: It was a “bioweapon,”—Covid ghost puts China on the mat, again

June 28, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Despite Covid-19 subsiding worldwide, the pandemic’s ghost refuses to go under: now, a Wuhan researcher has revealed that China engineered the pandemic to ‘purposely infect’ the people in the world. According to media reports on Wednesday, this shocking information was disclosed by Chao Shan in an interview in 2020. Jennifer […]

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Day 3: Key takeaways from PM Modi’s landmark US visit—defense, technology, space cooperation

June 23, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: If the UPA government, led by Dr. Manmohan Singh, had pushed India into the US orbit after the 2008 nuclear deal, despite the Left’s Opposition, the landmark State Visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to America has firmed up multiple deals that would propel New Delhi to new heights in […]

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Yet another loan: On the verge of default, Pak gets $1 bn breather from China

June 17, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: On the verge of default after June 30, and amid the bailout delays by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Pakistan on Friday received a fresh loan of USD 1 billion from China, the media reported. Of the USD 130 billion worth of external loans Pakistan has to pay to lenders, […]

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Modi overseas: the Indian PM to lead Yoga Day at the UN, visit the US and Egypt next week

June 16, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have a busy schedule next week as he embarks upon his visit to the US (June 20 to 24), lead the International Day of Yoga at the United Nations (June 21), and pays a visit to Egypt thereafter (June 25-26) while returning home. On June […]

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