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Burning Bangladesh: Pak calls for ‘normalcy,’ as India evacuates nonessential staff

August 7, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In its first reaction to the Bangladesh imbroglio, Pakistan on Wednesday expressed hope for a “peaceful and swift return to normalcy” in the breakaway country which was known as East Pakistan until 1971. As the ousted former PM Sheikh Hasina, who is waiting in India ahead of taking political asylum elsewhere, […]

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Roving Periscope: Bangladesh may return to seed, in (East) Pakistan!

August 7, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Many Pakistanis are celebrating the fall of the Hasina regime, believing they have avenged the split of 1971. With all-around anarchy, mayhem, wanton arson, and bloodshed, a promising Bangladesh now resembles what it was until 1971: East Pakistan. Of course, (West) Pakistan also looks like going to seed—but Islamabad has the […]

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Roving Periscope: Hasina waits in India; Khaleda freed, as Hindus targeted in a burning Bangladesh

August 6, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As Bangladesh descended further into unprecedented anarchy, widespread riots, deaths, and destructions, the new military regime released former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, 78, and many activists of Muslim fundamentalist outfit Jamaat-I-Islami from prisons while London declined political asylum to ousted PM Sheikh Hasina Wazed, who is waiting in India to […]

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The UK: “You’ll regret,” PM Starmer warns ballooning anti-Muslim protestors

August 5, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A month after taking his oath, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday warned far-right, anti-immigration, anti-Muslim protesters that they would “regret” participating in England’s worst rioting in 13 years, as disturbances linked to the murder of three children last week flared across the country. The UK, which has a Muslim […]

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Markets: Recession fears in the US, M-E crisis tank global indices, including Sensex, Nifty

August 5, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Reports about a possible recessionary trend kicking off in the US, the escalating crisis in the Middle East, and domestic reasons caused a meltdown in world markets on Monday, as Sensex and Nifty crashed by nearly 3 percent each. Key factors behind the stock market crash included fears of a US […]

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Sri Lanka Reloaded: As a huge crowd storms the PM’s house, Hasina quits, flees to Tripura

August 5, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Aping the Sri Lankans of 2022, a huge crowd of anti-quota protestors stormed the Prime Minister’s official residence in Dhaka, soon after Sheikh Hasina Wazed resigned and fled along with her younger sister Rehana, the media reported on Monday afternoon. The Bangladesh Army gave an ultimatum of 45 minutes to PM […]

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Roving Periscope: PM Hasina leaves for a “safer place;” B’desh may return to the army rule

August 5, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: When Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed, whose Awami League won a massive 288 of the 300 parliamentary seats to return to power for a fifth overall term in January 2024, disclosed a “plot” in May 2024 to carve out a Christian country from her homeland and adjoining Myanmar, the attempts […]

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Roving Periscope: Fearing backlash, the poll-bound US cancels “deal” with the 9/11 mastermind

August 3, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Fearing a massive backlash of the non-Muslim voters ahead of the November presidential elections, the US on Friday hurriedly scrapped, just two days after announcing, a highly controversial “deal” with the 9/11 mastermind and his two accomplices, whose ‘softer’ sentences, the Democrats hoped, would appease the Muslims at home and worldwide […]

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Food: The UN’s goal of a hunger-free world by 2030 is unachievable

August 3, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The United Nations’ goal of creating a hunger-free world by 2030 would most likely not be achieved, an eminent German agriculture economist said on Saturday. Addressing the 32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), Martin Qaim, Professor of Agricultural Economics and Director of the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of […]

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Wayanad: Landslide toll up at 308 as search, and rescue operations enter fifth day

August 3, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The death toll in the massive landslide in the Wayanad district of Kerala, which buried at least three villages under mud and debris because of extremely heavy rains on July 30, mounted to 308 as of Friday as the ongoing search and rescue operations picked pace on the fifth day of […]

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