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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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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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