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Roving Periscope: Dubai shows why Pakistan is near-bankrupt

May 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nearly 17,165 Pakistanis, who fleeced their nation for decades and now own properties of over USD 12.5 billion in Dubai alone, can still rescue their nearly bankrupt country from its current financial morass if they demonstrate their patriotism, sell off their assets, and funnel that ill-gotten money back into the South […]

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Economy: The UN upwardly revises India’s 2024 growth projection to 6.9%

May 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The United Nations has revised upwards India’s growth projections for 2024, with the country’s economy now forecast to expand by 6.9 percent this year, mainly driven by strong public investment and resilient private consumption. The global body’s report “World Economic Situation and Prospects”, in mid-2024, released on Thursday, said, the Indian […]

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Economy: India to surpass Japan in FY26, says Sanjeev Sanyal

May 16, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India is set to emerge as a USD 4 trillion economy in 2024-25 and surpass Japan by early next fiscal (FY26) to become the world’s fourth largest economy, Sanjeev Sanyal, a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), said on Thursday. A 7 percent economic growth rate […]

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LS polls: “PM Modi will return; hope Pak also gets a leader like him”

May 16, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Leading Pakistani-American media commentator and businessman Sajid Tarar has said that Narendra Modi is set to return a third time as the Prime Minister of India, and expressed the hope that Pakistan would also get a leader like him. The Baltimore-based Tarar said PM Modi is a strong leader who has […]

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Roving Periscope: “Indians lands on the Moon, but Pak kids die in the open gutter”

May 16, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the massive anti-Pakistan protests, total strike, and demand for merger with India in Pak-occupied Kashmir (PoK) entered the sixth day, a leading politician lamented in Islamabad that while Indian satellites were landing on the Moon, the Karachi children were dying in gutters. Syed Mustafa Kamal, a member of Pakistan’s National […]

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LS polls: Dr. Jaishankar slams the West, and its media, for dishing “gyan” to India

May 15, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi revealed that some foreign countries were not just influencing but trying to ‘interfere’ in India’s ongoing Lok Sabha polls, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hit out at the West and its media for dishing out unsolicited “gyan” to the world’s largest democracy. The Western countries […]

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Roving Periscope: “Narrow view,” EAM remarks after the US warning to India on Chabahar

May 15, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after the US warned India of a “potential risk of sanctions” in the wake of the India-Iran 10-year deal for running the Chabahar Port in the Gulf nation, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said this project will benefit the entire region and people should not take a “narrow view.” […]

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Trade war: President Biden sharply hikes US tariffs on many Chinese imports

May 15, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Intensifying his predecessor’s trade war against China, President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced steep tariff increases on several categories of Chinese imports including electric vehicles, computer chips, and medical products, risking an election-year standoff with Beijing in a bid to woo voters dissatisfied with his economic policies. Democrat President Biden will […]

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Sushil Modi’s life was a lesson in how to keep the nation first, the party next, and the self last

May 15, 2024 Vinayak Barot

(Guru Prakash) Very few leaders in contemporary India have enjoyed cross-party support, admiration, and respect. One such senior politician was Sushil Kumar Modi, who came from Bihar, the heart of India. A RSS swayamsevak from his childhood and then an ABVP member, he was a product of the J P Movement. He rose through the […]

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Over 35,000 deaths in Gaza: It’s no genocide, claims the US!

May 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Self-righteous and the world’s preacher-in-chief, the US does not believe a “genocide” is going on in the Gaza Strip where over 35,000 people have died in Israeli bombing since October 7, 2023, in its counter-offensive after Hamas terrorists invaded the Jewish state, killed nearly 1,200 Israelis, and fled with nearly 250 […]

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