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G-20 FMM: Global governance has failed to prevent wars; common interests ignored, says PM Modi

March 2, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said multilateralism is in crisis today and the failure of the global architecture of governance is affecting developing countries the most. Inaugurating the first foreign ministers’ meeting (FMM) of G-20 nations here in 2023, he said “The architecture of global governance created after the […]

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Telecom: With 3 years’ target surpassed in 6 months, India to expand 5-G services

March 1, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In a rare feat, as the Indian telecommunication companies have surpassed the three-year 5-G rollout target given to them within six months, the government is all set to enhance the adoption of 5-G applications across various key segments in India. According to the media reports, quoting VL Kantha Rao, Additional […]

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Roving Periscope: 30 lakh textile, other workers may lose jobs in Pakistan

March 1, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid reports that a broke Islamabad is also considering rationing food supplies even to the all-powerful armed forces, and that many companies are paying only 15-days’ salaries to their staff, Pakistan is likely to see millions of employees and workers being thrown out of jobs in the coming weeks. With […]

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G-20 FMM: A two-day meeting begins in New Delhi

March 1, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The capital of India is hosting from Wednesday evening an important meeting of foreign ministers of the member-states of the Group of 20 (G-20) economies in the backdrop of the recent conclave of these countries’ finance ministers and central bank chiefs in Bengaluru which ended without a consensus, or a […]

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Recurrence of Coronavirus is Still Possible: WHO

February 28, 2023 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Feb 28: Even when cases of infection from Covid-19 has reached a low level in most parts of the world, the World Health Organisation (WHO) does not agree that the threat is all but over. After the WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said earlier this month that the coronavirus “continues to […]

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Covid-19: After 945 days, Hong Kong people drop masks, breathe freely

February 28, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The world’s longest mask mandate ended in Hong Kong on Tuesday, literally giving its people breathing space as they will no longer have to wear masks from Wednesday, made compulsory after the outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020. Masks will no longer be necessary outdoors, indoors, or on public transport, Hong […]

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Roving Periscope: The US reopens Covid origin issue, says it may have spread from a Chinese lab

February 28, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As Sino-US relations deteriorate further and America goes to the presidential polls next year, the theory of the Covid-19 virus first circulating in Wuhan around November 2019 and spreading from a laboratory, has resurfaced. And, if she became US President in 2024, Indian-origin hopeful Nikki Haley has vowed to cut […]

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Energy transition: Essar launches EET, to invest $ 3.6 bn in the UK and India

February 27, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Essar Group on Monday announced the formation of Essar Energy Transition (EET) to drive the creation of the United Kingdom’s leading energy transition hub in North-West England. EET plans to invest a total of USD 3.6 billion in developing a range of low-carbon energy transition projects over the next […]

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G-20: FMs may fail to draw consensus over Russia—Ukraine war, debt burdens

February 25, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine entered the second year on Thursday, a meeting of finance chiefs of the Group of 20 (G-20) countries may have failed to arrive at a consensus over the devastating war and the debt burden of the “Global South.” Russia, a member […]

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Roving Periscope: China, which attacked India in 2020, wants peace in Ukraine!

February 24, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: On Friday’s first anniversary of the ongoing war in Ukraine, China claimed neutrality, then blamed the West and its allies for ‘inciting’ the Russian invasion and called on all parties to support the two countries in reaching “a comprehensive ceasefire.” In fact, China spoke a lot without really saying anything […]