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Roving Periscope: The US okays $450 mn F-16 plan for starving Pakistan !

September 8, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Plagued with extreme weather and existential economic crisis, a near-bankrupt Pakistan is crying for international aid, but its ‘frenemy,’ the US, will rearm a crippled Islamabad with a USD 450 million F-16 fighter jet fleet “sustainment program.” It is still unclear if the US has provided any aid to Pakistan […]

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Nasal Vaccine Approved for Covid-19

September 6, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Sept 6: Bharat Biotech’s nasal vaccine against Covid-19 has been approved by the Drugs Controller General of India for “restricted use” among adults “in emergency situation,” Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced on Tuesday. The minister said the nasal vaccine could be used for primary immunisation of those aged 18 years and above in […]

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Pakistan: Food shortages stare at 33 million people as floods multiply miseries

September 3, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pakistan’s backseat driver, Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, after an aerial survey of the flood-hit areas, said this week it would take his country several years to recover from the natural disaster. India can offer help, and even Pakistan’s Finance Minister Miftah Ismael favors it, but Prime Minister Shehbaz […]

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Covid-19 returns: China locks down 21 million people in Chengdu

September 1, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: There is no respite from fresh waves of Covid-19 as the pandemic returned to haunt China, forcing it to lock down over 21.2 million people in the southwestern metropolis of Chengdu, the media reported on Thursday. The fresh outbreak was noticed during the four-day citywide testing in Chengdu. During four days […]

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Relief: Tata’s Air India to restore staff salaries to pre-Covid levels

August 26, 2022 virendra pandit

New Delhi: Air India on Friday announced the restoration of its staff’s salaries to pre-pandemic levels from September 1, 2022. The airline had cut their salaries in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The loss-making airline, which the Tatas took over from the Government of India in January this year, will also revise crew layover […]

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ADTPS, AEML and Adani Foundation organise Cancer Detection Camp in Dahanu

August 25, 2022 Vinayak Barot

Although India has, for a long time, battled the incidence of cancer, latest estimates peg them to be rising at significantly higher rate. This is generally due to poorer prognosis, because of relatively low cancer awareness, inadequate early detection mechanisms, and the lack of equitable access to affordable curative care. However, cancer is curable, if […]

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Modi Inaugurates Two Healthcare Centres: Multi-Speciality Hospital in Faridabad and Cancer Hospital in Mohali

August 24, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Aug 24: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated a 2,600-bed private hospital at Faridabad in Haryana boosting up the modern medical infrastructure in the National Capital Region (NCR) and the country. The Rs 6,000 crores super multi-speciality hospital with 2,600-beds capacity is equipped with cutting-edge technology, including a centralised fully-automated laboratory […]

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Roving Periscope: Broke, Sri Lanka crushes protesting students, spurs professionals’ brain drain

August 24, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Unable to face economic and political crisis any longer, those who can are moving out of Sri Lanka as the South Asian country, where a mass uprising since March forced the dominant Rajapaksa family out of power and country. According to the media reports, thousands of Sri Lankans are fleeing […]

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Economy: China tries to prevent cascading effect of the real estate sector’s bust

August 22, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Global crises like the Covid-19 pandemic, resultant recession, and general distrust of China worldwide, which have adversely affected the second-largest economy since 2020, have forced Beijing to lower the interest rate of home loans to prevent buyers from declaring bankruptcy. With this aim, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the […]