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Roving Periscope: Amid anti-Semitic sentiments, a Jew elected the first woman President of Mexico

June 3, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid the ongoing Gaza War and an anti-Semitic campaign in the West, a Jewish woman, Claudia Sheinbaum, 61, a Nobel Prize winner, is ready to become Mexico’s first woman president, the media reported on Monday. In a landslide victory, she was elected on Sunday to the highest office. For months, the […]

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Business

Pole-vault: Pro-NDA exit polls pump up Indian stock market ahead of June 4 results

June 3, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With exit polls predicting a massive win for the BJP-led NDA in the Lok Sabha elections ahead of the June 4 results, and anticipating key economic reforms soon, investors gained over Rs 12.48 trillion from a sharp market rally in early trading on Monday. Following the huge rally in equities, the […]

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Elections

South Africa: For the 1st time in 30 years, post-Mandela ANC may lose majority

May 31, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For the first time since 1994 when Nelson Mandela led South Africa into a post-Apartheid regime, his African National Congress (ANC) may be forced to form a national coalition government as partial election results put it well short of a majority. With over half of the votes counted across the country’s […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: America on the edge as ‘guilty’ Trump’s supporters threaten retribution

May 31, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Barely six months before the US votes to elect its 47th President, America on Friday appeared on the edge as a court found ‘frontrunner’ Republican Donald Trump guilty in a 2016 case and his supporters flooded social media with threats of violence and retribution, the media reported. The Democrats’s camp, campaigning […]

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Business

Gaza: Xi Jinping calls for a Middle East ‘peace conference’

May 30, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A week after threatening democracy in Taiwan and conducting its biggest military drill ever around the self-ruled island nation, China’s President-for-Life Xi Jinping on Thursday called for an ‘international peace conference’ in the Middle East which, he said, is ‘suffering tremendously’ amid the ongoing Gaza War. Addressing a Beijing Summit attended […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: China sitting on twin democratic volcanos of Taiwan and Hong Kong

May 30, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Since 1949, Communist China has been trying to crush democracy in its breakaway island territory, Taiwan, almost every week. It has also been attempting to sniff out democracy in Hong Kong, which the British returned to China in 1997 on the promise of retaining its democracy. It may now be sitting […]

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Business

US Polls: If he wins the WH again, Trump may invite Musk as an advisor

May 30, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: One of them is unpredictable. The other one is a maverick. They have often been at loggerheads. Six months ahead of the US presidential elections in November 2024, however, they may have come together, on the same page. Former United States President Donald Trump, a businessman-politician, is considering offering Tesla-X (ex-Twitter)-SpaceX […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Against Pak Army—Imran, and Nawaz are on the same page!

May 29, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For the first time, and by a strange coincidence, two arch-political enemies—former Prime Ministers Mohammed Nawaz Sharif and Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi—find themselves on the same page, and against the once-powerful Pakistani Army who had foisted them in Islamabad and then orchestrated their ouster. In the space of a year or […]

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Business

Markets: Ahead of June 4, Sensex, Nifty50 shed weight as S&P upgrades India

May 29, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Although S&P revised India’s outlook to ‘positive’ and maintained its ‘BBB-‘ rating on Wednesday, cautious stock markets shed some weight ahead of June 4 when results of the ongoing Lok Sabha election will be declared. The election campaign for the seventh and last phase of parliamentary elections will close on Thursday […]

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Business

Economy: IMF ups Chinese growth to 5% in FY24, 4.5% in FY25

May 29, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has upgraded Chinese economic growth forecasts after its ‘strong’ results in the first quarter of this year, the media reported on Wednesday. According to the global lender, China’s economy will grow 5 percent this year, after a ‘strong’ first quarter, compared to the previous forecast of […]

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