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Pakistan: Without congratulating PM Shehbaz, Biden assures continuous support!

March 30, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi waited and waited in vain for years even for a telephonic call from the US Presidents—Donald Trump and Joe Biden—while he was Pakistan’s Prime Minister from 2018 to 2022. His successor, Mian Mohammed Shehbaz Sharif, is faring a little better. President Biden has written to him, assuring […]

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The US polls: Biden claims world leaders don’t want Trump to return!

March 30, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Making tall claims and promises spices up an election. But US President Joe Biden, 81, may have stolen a march on all others, including his rival Donald Trump, 77, as they face off to reclaim the White House in the November 2024 presidential elections. “Almost every world leader has told me […]

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Roving Periscope: “What gives you the right to lecture us,” an angry Guyana President rips BBC apart

March 30, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Much water has flown across the oceans and seas of the planet since colonialism ended with the 1997 British withdrawal from its last colony, Hong Kong. But the West, unable to shed its hangover and still riding its dead high horse, continues to treat the Third World with contempt. The holier-than-thou […]

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Diplomacy: Dr. Jaishankar meets his Ukrainian counterpart Kuleba

March 29, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid increasing efforts to end the ongoing, 25-month-long war between Russia and Ukraine, India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar had a crucial meeting on Friday with his visiting Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in the national capital. Kuleba’s visit comes amid efforts to seek a peaceful resolution to the over two-year-old Russia-Ukraine […]

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Technology: “Surpass AI,” PM Modi to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates

March 29, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Asserting that technology can play a major role in sectors such as agriculture, health, and education, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged Microsoft Inc. co-founder to encourage technologists to aim higher and surpass even Artificial Intelligence (AI) with greater innovation. In a 45-minute-long wide-ranging interaction, the two world leaders—one in […]

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Roving Periscope: Poll-clock ticking, under LLD pressure, the US harps on Kejriwal, again; adds Cong too

March 28, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Trying a second shot—and presumably the last—at the White House in November 2024, incumbent US President Joe Biden appears under extreme pressure from the liberal-left-democratic (LLD) cabal at home to take on India, whose Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “autograph” he had sought only last year. Biden, 81, is engaged in a […]

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Pakistan: As terrorists target their manpower, Chinese firms start leaving ‘friendly country’

March 28, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Pakistan failing to contain ongoing terrorist attacks on Chinese interests and citizens, China’s companies have started shutting shops in the troubled South Asian country that they once thought was their backyard. Terrorists of various hues—ranging from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTK) to the Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA)—have relentlessly targeted Chinese nationals […]

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Economy: “If India grows at 8% until 2047, it can become a $55 trillion economy”

March 28, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Reforms being the key, the Indian economy can grow at 8 percent or more until 2024, according to Krishnamurthy Venkata Subramanian, Executive Director for India, International Monetary Fund (IMF). “And if India grows at 8 percent, it can become a USD 55 trillion economy by 2047.” The target of an 8 […]

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Judiciary: Six Pak HC judges seek judicial intervention against ISI’s ‘interference’

March 27, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It has been well-known for decades. Now, six judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) have sought intervention by the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) against alleged interference in the working of the judiciary by Pakistan’s dreaded and army-run espionage network called the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). In an unprecedented move, a March […]

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Thailand: PM Thavisin feels proud as Parliament nods same-sex marriage!

March 27, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With its Parliament legalizing it, the Buddhist-majority Kingdom of Thailand has become the first Southeast Asian nation—and the world’s 26th—to make same-sex marriages lawful. Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said he was “proud” after the approval of the bill. “The passing (of this draft law) in the Parliament today is a proud […]

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