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Roving Periscope: From this weekend, China may witness 36,000 Covid deaths, daily

January 18, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Fears of a dark Covid-19  winter in rural China grew exponentially this week as the Asian country descended into uncertainty. Just four days ahead of the Lunar New Year (January 22-23), the media reported on Wednesday that China is likely to see nearly 36,000 Covid deaths a day during this […]

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WEF: India, B’Desh may benefit in likely global recession in 2023

January 16, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: A global recession is likely this year but India and Bangladesh may benefit from global trends, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said on Monday. Pressures on food, energy, and inflation may peak in 2023, the WEF, in its Chief Economists Outlook Survey, said, according to the media reports. Some economies […]

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Covid explosion: Finally, China admits 60,000 deaths in a month!

January 16, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: A week before the worried Chinese celebrate their Lunar New Year on January 22, and amid hundreds of millions of people crisscrossing China for this 40-day-long event, Beijing, on Saturday last weekend, admitted witnessing almost 60,000 Covid-related deaths in a month, as the tides of deadly infections swept the country. […]

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Roving Periscope: ‘One percent of Indians own over 40% of the country’s wealth’

January 16, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The wealthiest one percent of people in India now own more than 40 percent of the country’s total wealth, while the bottom half of the population together share just 3 percent of the wealth, the media reported on Monday. Releasing the India supplement of its annual inequality report on the […]

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Roving Periscope: World braces for the worst as 900 mn Chinese now Covid-infected

January 14, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With the internal migration of hundreds of millions of Chinese beginning on January 7 for the Lunar New Year on January 22-23, over 900 million people in the Asian country are estimated to have already contracted infections because of the fresh resurgence of Covid-19 pandemic, the media reported on Saturday. […]

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Global South: PM Modi advocates ‘equivalent voice’ at all forums

January 12, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Advocating an ‘equivalent voice’ for the countries of Global South on all international forums, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the voice of these countries and their priorities are also that of India. Addressing the inaugural leaders’ session of the “Voice of Global South: For human-centric development,” through video-conferencing, he […]

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Global economy: World Bank slashes growth forecasts to just 1.7% in 2023

January 11, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Painting a gloomy picture for 2023, the World Bank has slashed its growth forecasts for most countries and regions, and warned that new adverse shocks could tip the global economy into a recession. Global GDP will probably increase only 1.7 percent this year, about half the pace forecast in June 2022, […]

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Roving Periscope: ‘No safe limit for alcohol drinking’, says WHO

January 11, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Ten days after the New Year, 2023, kicked off—when liquor consumption worldwide is reported to be the maximum in a year—the World Health Organization (WHO) has said drinking alcohol is risky and there is no safe limit for its consumption for health. At least 200 million people in Europe alone […]

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The $9 bn lifeline: Emboldened, bankrupt Pak may now spike terror attacks in India

January 10, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With donors assuring a USD 9 billion lifeline to rescue the sinking economy of a failed Pakistan, an emboldened Islamabad may multiply terrorist attacks on India to divert its hungry people’s attention from the internal Taliban challenge to revanchist agenda in Jammu and Kashmir in the next few weeks. Bankrupt […]

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Roving Periscope: As China relents, talks to Pfizer for US vax, Jack Ma ‘retires’

January 7, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid reports that Covid-battered China is talking to the US multinational Pfizer to import its vaccines, Jack Ma, the second best-known Chinese globally after President Xi Jinping, has decided to retreat from his online empire in the wake of Beijing’s crackdown on technology behemoths. The media reported on Saturday that […]

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