Political

Business

Economic Survey: India predicts 6.5 to 7% GDP growth in FY25

July 22, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Asserting that inflation is under control and the Indian economy is on a strong footing, the Economic Survey 2023-24 on Monday highlighted the Narendra Modi government’s thrust on capital expenditure (capex), and said the sustained momentum in private investment has boosted capital formation growth. The survey, which Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman […]

Read more

Business

Investments: Ahead of FY25 Budget, Goyal invites diaspora to invest in India’s bright future

July 20, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Emphasizing India’s relentless growth potential, Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal on Saturday invited Indian-Americans and diaspora elsewhere to invest in India’s stock market, bond market, and other financial instruments. Virtually interacting with the Indian-Americans, three days ahead of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presenting the full Budget for 2024-25 […]

Read more

Business

Bangladesh: After 100+ deaths, PM Hasina cancels foreign visits as anti-quota stir intensifies

July 20, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Of the over 5,000 Indian students in Bangladesh, 1,000 have returned home while 4,000 are still stuck in the riot-torn neighboring country struggling to control violent anti-reservation agitation, that has claimed over 100 lives this week and forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed to cancel her foreign visits. PM Hasina was […]

Read more

Business

Roving Periscope: After Pelosi, Obama also drops Biden; Democrats may force him to quit

July 19, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After former Speaker Nancy Pelone, even ex-President Barack Obama has pulled the plug: Joe Biden, 82, may be forced to renounce his candidature for a second term in the White House as pressure mounted on the fast-aging US President, 82, who is still making last-ditch efforts to secure the Democratic Party’s […]

Read more

Business

US elections: Resisting calls to quit, ‘hard-lucky’ Biden, 82, down with COVID-19

July 18, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Gaffe-prone US President Joe Biden, who is fighting advanced aging symptoms and resisting intensifying pressure NOT to contest the November 5 elections against his predecessor-cum-potential successor Donald Trump, got the latest blow when doctors diagnosed him with COVID-19 on Wednesday and urged him to take rest. The incumbent President’s hopes of […]

Read more

Defence

Diplomacy: Dr. Jaishankar opens the first Jan Aushadhi Kendra in Mauritius

July 18, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar inaugurated India’s first overseas “Jan Aushadi Kendra” in the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius, testifying to the “close” bilateral cooperation between the two countries, especially in the key health sector. Dr. Jaishankar was in Mauritius on a two-day visit from July 16, one of the […]

Read more

Business

Roving Periscope: Trump’s MAGA White racists attack JD Vance’s “Hindu wife”

July 18, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Barely two days after Republican nominee Donald Trump picked a key former critic as his Vice-Presidential running mate, the fundamentalist Christian, far-right, and White racist brigade in the former President’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) umbrella has started attacking Usha Chilukuri, the Indian-origin wife of James David (JD) Vance, Senator from […]

Read more

Business

Ukraine: Startups developing a ‘robot army’ to fight against the Russian forces

July 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It looks straight from a science fiction movie. Losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the ongoing Russian invasion since February 2022, Ukraine, which is struggling with acute manpower shortages, is now creating an army of robots to take on the might of the Russian armed forces, the media […]

Read more

Business

Roving Periscope: Iran denies plot to assassinate Donald Trump

July 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Iran has rubbished claims in a section of the US media that it is planning to assassinate Donald Trump, who escaped a bid on his life in Pennsylvania on Saturday last week and was nominated on Tuesday as the Republican Party candidate against incumbent Democrat President Joe Biden before the November […]

Read more

Business

Pakistan: Army kills 10 terrorists who kill 8 soldiers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

July 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Call it the Law of Karma. What goes around, comes around. While Pakistan is pushing terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir to kill the Indian soldiers, its own army is being attacked by terrorists in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. At least eight soldiers of the Pakistan Army and 10 terrorists were killed […]

Read more