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Technology: India lifted 800 mn out of poverty “simply by smartphones”, says the UN

August 2, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Praising India for its achievements, the United Nations has said the South Asian country has lifted 800 million people out of poverty in the past five to six years “simply by the use of smartphones” and people in rural parts of the country can make transactions instantly on their phones, the […]

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Business

Wayanad: Landslide toll crosses 300; another 300 still missing

August 2, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid incessant rains and difficult terrain, more than 40 rescue teams from various agencies and government departments searched for any survivors in slush and mud left by the killer landslide on Tuesday in the Wayanad district of Kerala where the death toll mounted to over 300 as another 300-odd people were […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: To appease the Muslims, the US strikes a ‘deal’ with the 9/11 mastermind!

August 1, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It may well go down in the annals of human history as nothing less than a deal between God and Satan! For, amid the ongoing Gaza War, the presidential election-bound US has reached a deal with Kuwaiti-Pakistani trained mechanical engineer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), whom Washington had accused of being the […]

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Business

The Gulf: Employers reject Pakistanis for their “deplorable standards!”

July 31, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pakistan’s Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis has been informed about the “deplorable standards” of the South Asian nation’s workforce, mainly in the Gulf region, which has shifted hiring from other regional countries, like Bangladesh, the media reported on Wednesday. The Senate Committee meeting, chaired by Senator Zeeshan Khanzada, lamented the […]

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Business

The UK: After Islamist’s sentence and killing of three kids, mobs target mosque, injure 40 cops

July 31, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after British-Pakistani radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary, whose followers have been linked to numerous plots around the world, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday for directing a terrorist organization, and the killing of three children, an angry mob attacked a mosque and injured nearly 40 policemen, the media reported […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: By killing Hamas chief in Iran and attacking Lebanon, Israel expands war zone

July 31, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh, 62, was on Tuesday killed in “a treacherous Zionist attack on his residence in Tehran”, a day after Israel eliminated another key enemy in Lebanon, thus expanding the war zone in the already fragile Middle East, the media reported on Wednesday. Haniyeh was “specially designated” […]

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Business

Wayanad: Landslide toll mounts to 200; Kerala was pre-warned repeatedly, Shah tells RS

July 31, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday informed the Rajya Sabha that the Kerala government was given an early warning repeatedly from July 23 to 26 over very heavy rains and potential landslides in Wayanad and elsewhere in the southern state as the death toll in Tuesday’s tragedy climbed to 200 […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Venezuela snaps ties with 7 LatAm nations for doubting the poll outcome

July 30, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Venezuela on Monday snapped ties with seven neighboring Latin American nations expelled their diplomatic missions, and announced the withdrawal of its staff from those countries for doubting the outcome of its recent elections that brought controversial President Nicolas Maduro back to power for a third time, the media reported on Tuesday. […]

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Defence

Wayanad: At least 84 died in Kerala landslide; multi-pronged rescue ops intensified

July 30, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In a major tragedy, at least 84 people, including women and children, died in a massive landslide in Wayanad, Kerala, triggered by very heavy rains on Tuesday as rescue efforts were mounted on war footing to save hundreds of others trapped in the mud and debris, the media reported. The landslides […]

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English

Olympics’24: After a bronze in 10m singles, Manu wins another in doubles with Sarabjot Singh

July 30, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Manu Bhaker, the first Indian to win a medal (bronze) at the ongoing Olympic Games in Paris, in a 10-meter air pistols event, won another bronze in the same event in mixed doubles with Sarabjot Singh, the media reported on Tuesday. Manu and Sarabjot won 16-10 against South Korea’s Oh Ye […]

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