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Covid-19: Brutal lockdowns trigger rare protests in China’s Guangzhou City

November 15, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: From angry and widespread protests—accompanied by loud slogans like “Let it Rot”, to “Lie Down”—the Chinese people’s frustrations over the brutal implementation of the Zero Covid policy to confine them behind doors, found a vent in violence in Guangzhou City where hundreds of people clashed with police as they marched […]

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Population Bomb: As the world now has 8 bn people, India to replace China in 2023

November 15, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: It is worrying that Earth now has 8 billion mouths of Homo sapiens to feed when the global climate is collapsing, the world is worried over international conflicts with new war theatres emerging, and the planet is facing a global recession in 2023, with food, fuel, and financing crises looming […]

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Price rise: India’s WPI inflation the lowest in 19 months, eases from 10.7% in Sept to 8.39% in Oct

November 14, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: While many economies worldwide are fighting soaring inflation, and recessionary trends, India’s annual Wholesale Price-based Inflation (WPI) eased from 10.7 percent in September to 8.39 percent in October to 8.39 percent year-on-year, the lowest since March 2021, because of a fall in commodity prices, the government said on Monday. “Decline […]

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Covid-19: Pandemic returns to Australia with 800 infections aboard a ship

November 12, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic appeared returning to Australia on Saturday with nearly 800 people testing positive on a cruise ship in Sydney, the media reported. The health officials called it a “high-risk” incident, and rated the fresh Covid-19 outbreak’s risk level at “Tier 3”, showing a high level of transmission. Australia’s […]

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Roving Periscope: Putin to skip; Biden, Xi meeting at G20 Summit in Indonesia next week

November 11, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Nearly nine months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, amid reports he could be assassinated, President Vladimir Putin will skip the next week’s G-20 meeting in Indonesia, but the US President is all set to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told journalists on […]

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What a fall! Amazon loses USD 1 trillion in market capitalization since July 2021

November 10, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: That technology-enabled giant companies have lost money heavily this year is known. In India, for example, education technology companies are bleeding; in the US, social media behemoths are sliding swiftly. But who had imagined a technology-based e-commerce and cloud company like Amazon would also follow the same route? But it […]

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Deadlier than Covid-19: China, Pak researching on new bioweapons, says report

November 7, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: While China is still battling with fresh outbreaks of Covid-19 and locked down over 230 million people—on Sunday, it reported a 27 percent increase in new infections to number over 5,000—it is simultaneously researching in a Pakistan facility to create pathogens deadlier than Covid-19, a media report has claimed. In […]

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Covid-19: With over 1,000 fresh infections daily, China’s Zero Covid policy fails

November 4, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With around 1,000 fresh coronavirus infection cases still being reported daily across the country, China’s draconian Zero Covid strategy to contain the bug seems to have failed, the media reported on Friday. The brutal execution of the policy to contain the pandemic in a country widely believed to be the […]

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Woes of power: Novice, UK PM Sunak takes U-turn, says will attend climate meet in Egypt

November 2, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: In politics, they say, those who can come to power; and those who can’t criticize and plot! And political honeymoons are even shorter than marital ones. Nobody knows this better than the greenhorn British PM Rishi Sunak, the first Indian-origin occupant of 10 Downing Street in London, who now wears […]

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Winter waves: Covid-19 forces a 7-day lockdown around the world’s largest iPhone plant in China

November 2, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid reports of a recurrence of Covid-19 in the northern hemisphere of the planet in the coming winter weeks—in the last three years, this coronavirus has evolved over 300 variants and sub-variants worldwide—China on Wednesday clamped a seven-day lockdown in Zhengzhou in the area around the world’s largest iPhone manufacturing […]

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