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“Allow Israel to nuke Gaza”: US Senator Graham shocks the world!

May 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While US President Joe Biden is “withholding” the supply of some key weapons to Israel, which ignored it and invaded the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah bordering Egypt on Sunday to flush out Hamas terrorists, an American senator has shocked the world by saying Washington should allow Jerusalem to drop […]

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Disinvestment: Broke, Pakistan tries again to privatize all govt companies, except for strategic ones

May 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: What India did without much resistance after 1991, a nearly-bankrupt Pakistan is trying to do once again: selling off the most government-owned white elephants. Prime Minister Mohammed Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday that Pakistan will privatize all state-owned enterprises (SOEs), except strategic entities, thereby broadening the government’s initial plans to sell […]

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Roving Periscope: The US smells a rat in Chabahar, warns India of “sanctions”

May 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: No Democrat American President has probably turned as ‘anti-Indian’ within a few months as Joe Biden, 81, has done in 2024, the year for his re-election bid—although his administration is studded with nearly 300 Indian-Americans working at different levels of his government. Under pressure from the so-called Liberal-Democratic-Secular (LibDemSec) cabal at […]

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The Maldives: India extends a $50 mn lifeline to prevent it going the Lanka way

May 13, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Despite its bitter relations with the pro-China Maldives, India has extended a USD 50 million lifeline to the archipelago country in the Indian Ocean if only to rescue it from going the Sri Lanka way, because of its debt burden. The Maldives on Monday thanked India for extending vital budgetary support […]

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The Ukraine War: Putin replaces Russian defense minister with a technocrat

May 13, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after starting his fifth term, President Vladimir Putin on Sunday shuffled his defense and security team to remobilize Russia’s sagging economy for a long and intensified war in Ukraine against the West which, since it started on February 24, 2022, has not produced a decisive victory so far. According to […]

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Roving Periscope: Ignoring protests, Israel pushes into Rafah to flush out Hamas

May 13, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Seven months and nearly 36,000 deaths after, Israel started pushing inside Rafah on the Egyptian border of the Gaza Strip to flush out Hamas terrorists in what it believes might be its decisive ground offensive against the Iran-supported group that has ruled the enclave’s 2.3 million people with an iron hand […]

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Roving Periscope: The US refutes Russian claims, denies ‘interference’ in Indian polls

May 10, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The United States on Thursday refuted Russia’s claims and denied Washington is ‘meddling’ in India’s ongoing Lok Sabha elections. The US reaction came a day after Russia said that America was trying to interfere in India’s parliamentary elections and “unbalance” the internal political situation in the South Asian country. “No, of […]

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The Maldives: India withdraws 51 soldiers before the May 10 ‘deadline’

May 9, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the Maldives followed the Maoist policy of “two steps forward, one backward,” India has withdrawn 51 of its soldiers from the Maldives so far, the capital Male said ahead of the May 10 deadline set by President Mohamed Muizzu for the complete withdrawal of Indian military personnel from his pro-China […]

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Roving Periscope: Pakistan dubs as a “Dark day” the May 9, 2023 anti-army ‘coup’

May 9, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As jailed former Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi refused to apologize, the Pakistani government decided to mark Thursday (May 9) as a “Black Day,” the first anniversary of the unprecedented anti-army riots and violence that gripped the nearly bankrupt country after the cricketer-turned-politician’s arrest. For the first time in Pakistan’s […]

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Aviation: As Air India helps, AI Express sacks 25 cabin crew, warns others

May 9, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Tatas-owned Air India Express on Thursday terminated the services of at least 25 cabin crew members after hundreds of them suddenly reported ‘sick’ a day before causing huge disruptions in flights, canceling 85 flights, and forcing to operate only 283 flights on Thursday. The media reported that the AI Express […]