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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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Business

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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Business

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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Scientists Found Covid-19 Activate Inflammatory Response in Brain and also Suggest Possible Treatment

November 1, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Nov 1: A research team led by the University of Queensland, Australia, has found that COVID-19 activates the same inflammatory response in the brain as Parkinson’s disease. According to the study report, the scientists have identified a potential future risk for neurodegenerative conditions in people who have had COVID-19 and it has also […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Bappi Lahiri’s romantic song is now the Chinese protesters’ anthem!

November 1, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Barely a week after President Xi Jinping ‘secured’ a third, five-year term in office, his Communist Party of China (CPC) is facing the music, literally, from an unlikely Indian source: a 1982 song of the maverick composer Bappi Lahiri (1952-2022) who passed away in February this year. Lahiri, well-known for […]

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“Living Amazon”: Brazil is back, says Lula as polls return him as President

October 31, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After defeating the incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, 67, in a stunning comeback veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 77, on Sunday declared “Brazil is back”, and he will strive to see the great River Amazon becomes living once again. Former Brazilian President Lula, who will return to power on […]

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Pandemic’s after-effects: Xi Jinping’s China staring at the financial meltdown

October 28, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Wuhan haunts China again, and again. The infamous city has locked down millions of people again as Covid-19 resurfaced this week in this epicenter of the pandemic in 2019. As of now, crores of Chinese are facing severest lockdowns in dozens of cities across the length and breadth of the […]

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