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Centre Taking Guard Afresh Against Covid-19

December 20, 2022 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Dec 20: Amidst warning coming from the United States that Covid-19 was again posing threat to “people everywhere,” the central government on Tuesday asked all the states and union territories to gear up genome sequencing of positive cases to keep track of the emerging variants. The new instruction was issued as […]

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Economy: World Bank slashes Covid-battered China’s growth to 2.7%

December 20, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The surest sign of what China, the world’s second-largest economy, may face in 2023, came from the World Bank on Tuesday when it slashed its 2022 China growth forecast predicted in June at 4.3 percent to 2.7 percent now. Various reports have suggested that China could be overwhelmed with a […]

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Roving Periscope: Curbs gone, now China may face over two million Covid-19 deaths in 2023

December 20, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: For the first time since 1949, Communist-ruled China briefly became a ‘People’s Republic’ in November when, under extreme pressure because of the widespread protests against the Zero Covid policy across the country, it suddenly lifted brutal tactics to keep the potential and real pandemic victims behind doors. But this has […]

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Covid-19: As infections sour, over a million Chinese may die in 2023

December 17, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: For three years, beginning in January 2020, China completely suppressed reports about Covid-19’s actual impact and severely punished journalists trying to uncover the facts. As on December 17, 2022, Beijing’s official death toll because of Covid-19 was just 5,235, while the worldwide number was 6,642,832. Come 2023. China cannot hide […]

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The Sunrise: India to be a $5-tr economy by FY25, says Gadkari; USD 30 tr by 2047, says Tata Sons chief

December 16, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Union Road Transport and Highways and MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said India, the world’s fastest-growing major economy, is all set to achieve a GDP worth USD 5 trillion by the financial year 2024-25. And Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran said India can look forward to becoming a USD […]

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Roving Periscope: India may use economics to fight Chinese politics

December 16, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Like other import-dependent countries gradually shifting their options from China to other nations—even through trade wars, as the US—India is also recalibrating its supply chains after nearly 20 years and may announce new measures to curb Chinese imports in Budget 2023. With the globalization of the world economy, geoeconomics has […]

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Covid-19: As China’s pandemic numbers go up, economic numbers slide down

December 15, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit     New Delhi: China is a classic example of the phrase: ‘You are damned if you do, and you are damned if you don’t!’ Its brutal Zero Covid policy kept the factories closed and people locked at home for weeks and months until protests forced the government to abandon it in November; […]

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Amid Ukraine war: Ailing, Putin cancels year-end press meet for 1st time since 2012

December 13, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid reports about his poor health and the Russian army’s ‘reverses’ in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin, 70, for the first time in 10 years, canceled his annual press meet in December. The media reported on Tuesday that this cancellation further sparked rumors about his failing health. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, […]

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Tory Pariwar: Six weeks into office, British PM Rishi Sunak faces a fresh revolt!

December 12, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: A century ago, India was the ‘Jewel in the British Crown.’ In the 2020s, India’s Janata Pariwar experiments in political and economic instability, of the 1970s and 1990s vintage, may have shifted to Great Britain, which currently has an Indian-origin Prime Minister in Rishi Sunak Just six weeks into office, […]

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Roving Periscope: With Finance Track, India starts rolling out year-long G20 meetings

December 12, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After the inaugural Sherpa Track Meeting of India’s G20 Presidency, held on December 4 at Udaipur, Rajasthan, the first meeting of the Finance Track of the Group involving central bank officials and finance ministry bureaucrats of the member countries, or the Finance and Central Bank Deputies (FCBD), will start in […]

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