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Campa Cola: Reliance relaunches iconic beverage brand in India; to challenge foreign colas

March 10, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The 50-year-old iconic soft drink brand, Campa Cola, is back in India. The Reliance Group acquired this popular soft drink brand recently for a relaunch across the Indian market, the media reported on Friday. Campa-Cola was the beverage of choice in India until replaced by other foreign ones, like Pepsi […]

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Pandemic Fund to Strengthen Health facilities in Poor, Middle-Income Countries Under-Funded

March 7, 2023 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Mar 7: The global initiative to create a purse for preventing the return of Covid-19-type pandemic has remained under-funded. More than 100 poor and middle-income countries have already put in early bids for assistance from the Pandemic Fund set up under the auspices of the World Bank totalling over 5.5 billion […]

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9,000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras in Operation in India

March 7, 2023 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Mar 7: The centre has opened more than 9,000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras across the country to make health facilities accessible to all people, Union Minister Bhupender Yadav said on Tuesday. Addressing a gathering on the occasion of Jan Aushadhi Diwas, Yadav said medicines are available at these centres at low prices, due to […]

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Image makeover: A year after turmoil, China assures Colombo of IMF bailout

March 7, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Nearly a year after Sri Lanka declared default amid widespread economic and political turmoil—which ended the China-friendly Rajapakse dynasty’s long stranglehold on the island nation—Beijing has mercifully assured Colombo to support Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring. This comes days after China similarly assured its ‘all-weather friend’ Pakistan also as a face-saver […]

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Celebrate world kidney day with the slogan “kidney health for all” on March 9th 

March 6, 2023 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi, March 6: The kidney education foundation to celebrate the world kidney day to spread awareness about kidney-related diseases on March 9th. The kidney education website which works for health related issues and mainly focuses on diseases related to the kidney and also promotes to take better care of patients with kidney diseases. To […]

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Roving Periscope: Amid multiple challenges and lower GDP growth, China hikes defense budget

March 6, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With US President Joe Biden and many other American leaders, cutting across party lines, warning against China’s increasing hegemony and belligerence, Beijing has increased its defense budget for 2023 by 7.2 percent despite its lowest economic growth in 25 years in a post-Covid recovery year. According to the media reports, […]

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Rise in Flu Cases Causing Panic about Return of Pandemic

March 4, 2023 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Mar 4: The sudden rise in cases of fever and long-duration cough with some symptoms similar to Covid-19 are causing concern to the people in several parts of the country reminding them of the pandemic days. Several parts of India have lately been reporting a high number of influenza cases in […]

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CPEC: To protect USD 62 bn investment, China throws a USD 1.3 billion lifeline at drowning Pakistan

March 4, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid apprehensions that the Afghan Taliban-supported Tehreeke-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTK) and the Baluch terrorists could target the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) infrastructure projects and Gwadar Port, Beijing on Saturday approved a USD 1.3 billion loan for cash-strapped Islamabad to wean it away from declaring a Sri Lanka-type default in the coming […]

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Road to 2024: China the strongest and the most disciplined “enemy”, says Nikki Haley

March 4, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The level of superpower rivalry between the US and China showed up on Friday when Republican presidential aspirant, Indian-American politician Nikki Haley, warned that China is the strongest and the most-disciplined “enemy” that America has ever faced. The next US presidential election is due on November 5, 2024. In a […]

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Roving Periscope: ‘Outcome document’, not “joint statement” in G-20 FMM, too

March 2, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, cast its shadow on the last year’s G-20 meeting in Indonesia. This year, the conflict may be eclipsing the G-20 bloc’s ongoing meetings in India. As in the recent Bengaluru meeting of finance ministers and central bank chiefs, […]

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