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Roving Periscope: After Taiwan, the US tightens the Tibetan screw on China

June 19, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the 1950s and 1960s, America geopolitically ‘encircled’ the then-Communist bastion of the Soviet Union by stitching together multiple security alliances like NATO, SEATO, and CENTO. Six decades later, it is following a similar policy against China the dyed-in-wool “communist” citadel. While the US-led ‘anti-China’ alliances, in trade, business, and security, […]

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Energy transition: Adani Group to invest over $100 bn in a decade

June 19, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Adani Group will invest over USD100 billion (Rs 83,400 crore) over the next decade in energy transition projects and manufacturing capability to produce every major component required for green energy generation, Gautam Adani, Chairman, said on Wednesday. Besides building solar parks to produce electricity from sunlight and wind farms from […]

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Gaza: Israeli intel warned of Hamas plot before Oct 7 attack

June 18, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After more than 38,000 deaths and wanton destruction during the ongoing Gaza Conflict, it has emerged that the Israeli intelligence had forewarned officials about a month before the October 7, 2023, attack by the Gaza Strip-based Hamas terrorist group, the media reported. An Israeli intelligence brief prepared weeks before Hamas’s attack […]

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What security: US spy robbed at gunpoint during President Biden’s visit to California!

June 18, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Barely six months before the November Presidential elections, this incident throws a spotlight on America’s superpower-dom and the hollowness of its ‘superior’ security and defense apparatus, at a time its incumbent President Joe Biden 81, is trying to retain the White House against the efforts of his predecessor, Donald Trump, 78, […]

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Roving Periscope: Uninvited and peeved, China spews venom against G7

June 18, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Grapes are sour. China is peeved at not being invited to the Group of Seven (G7) advanced and democratic economies, despite being the second-largest in the world, while its bitter foe India has repeatedly been invited. That’s why, responding to the G7 Leaders’ Communique, after their just-concluded Summit in Italy, China […]

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Economy: Fitch raises India’s GDP growth in FY25 to 7.2 %

June 18, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Fitch Ratings on Tuesday raised India’s GDP growth forecast for the current fiscal (2024-25) from 7 percent estimated in March 2024 to 7.2 per cent now in view of a recovery in consumer spending and increased investment. For the next two fiscal years, it projected growth rates of 6.5 percent (FY26) […]

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Israel: Amid the Gaza War, PM Netanyahu dissolves his emergency War Cabinet

June 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid the ongoing Gaza War, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday dissolved his six-member emergency War Cabinet, triggering more uncertainties about the peace efforts, led by US President Joe Biden who wants to add a feather to his cap before the November elections in a bid to retain the White […]

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Ukraine: India and others abstain from signing the Swiss Peace Summit communique

June 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pushing for a ‘sincere’ engagement between Russia and Ukraine, India and some other countries abstained from signing the joint communique issued at the end of the four-day global peace summit hosted by Switzerland, on Sunday, the media reported. India did not sign the communique as New Delhi called for a “sincere […]

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Agriculture: Amid heatwaves, farmers are worried as monsoon rains 20% less so far

June 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the new Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan planning ambitious schemes to boost farm production across India, as he did in Madhya Pradesh during his nearly two decades as its Chief Minister, the farmers have a fresh reason for concern: an overall deficit of 20 percent rains since the much-awaited […]

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Roving Periscope: As Trump vows deportation, the US hurries up with Gupta’s extradition

June 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Reflecting America’s internal political dynamics, a day after Donald Trump vowed the “largest deportation operation” in US history against suspect immigrants, the Biden Administration, in a bid to keep the pro-Khalistanis in good humor, secured the extradition of an Indian accused in the alleged plot to kill a separatist Sikh, Gurpatwant […]