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Technology: Google’s Indian app delisting cannot be permitted, says Vaishnaw

March 2, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Asserting that the startup ecosystem is key to the rising Indian economy and its fate cannot be left to any technology giant to decide, Union Minister for Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnav on Saturday said Google’s move to delist some Indian apps cannot be permitted. Taking a strong view of Google pulling […]

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Madhya Pradesh: Adani Group to invest Rs. 75,000 crore in diverse sectors

March 1, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit Gandhinagar: The Adani Group will invest about Rs 75,000 crore in Madhya Pradesh in power plants, building the Mahakaal Expressway, and setting up cement grinding units, among other sectors, in the coming years. The apples-to-airport group has already invested almost Rs 18,000 crore in the state and will continue investing in diverse sectors, […]

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Roving Periscope: Courtesy his bete noire Nawaz, Zardari to return as President!

March 1, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Call it an irony, or a quirk of fate. Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif, whose party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), had once denounced then President Asif Ali Zardari (2008-13) as “Mr. Ten Percent,” and agitated against his alleged corruption, is now all set to re-install the same person as the Head of […]

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Semiconductors: India to have 3 more plants at Rs. 1.26 trillion investment

March 1, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the Union Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approving proposals to set up three more fabrication plants to manufacture semiconductors, key to most of the state-of-the-art technologies, India will soon enter the microchip revolution under the Make in India drive. Two of these new plants will be set up […]

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Economy: India’s GDP grows at 8.4% in Q3FY24; economy to expand at 7.6% in FY24

February 29, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India’s economic growth accelerated to 8.4 percent in the third quarter of 2023-24, mainly due to good performance by the manufacturing, mining quarrying, and construction sectors. The Indian economy recorded a growth of 8.4 percent in the third quarter of this fiscal (October-December 2023), according to data released by the National […]

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The Gaza War: Over 30k dead since Oct 7; 576,000 face famine now

February 29, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the Middle East as the number of dead in the ongoing Gaza War has crossed the 30,000 mark and over 576,000 Gazans face famines in the coming days. The United Nations has said at least 576,000 people in the war-torn Gaza Strip are only […]

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Pakistan: Three-time PM, Nawaz takes oath as ‘ordinary’ MNA

February 29, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: He is the ‘power’ behind the uneasy throne—politically—who will do the backseat driving for his younger brother, the new Prime Minister-designate of Pakistan. And he is aware he is himself being backseat-driven by the Pakistan Army. This, in a nutshell, is the current status of Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif, three-time PM, […]

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Roving Periscope: “National extinction” fears worry China, Japan, South Korea, and more…

February 29, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Imagine China, the world’s most populous country until November 2023, reporting no new birth at all in two months of 2024… a South Korean businessman offering USD 75,000 as a bonus to each of his workers for producing a kid…and Japan is worried about its increasingly emptying roads… For, population, statisticians […]

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Ukraine: Russia happy at the French humiliation and NATO’s disarray

February 28, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Two years after Russia launched its “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24, 2023, the US-led West’s bravado and sanctions have largely failed to be disruptive. On the contrary, Washington and its NATO allies seem exhausted from aiding Ukraine with money and arms, and the anti-Russian coalition’s disarray is out […]

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Roving Periscope: Insecure, British MPs feel Gaza War heat; to get extra security

February 28, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A century ago, they ruled the world, and their Union Jack reigned the Seven Seas. They were the predominant global power and their word was the law of the planet. Those were halcyon days of the British Empire…until 1997 when the Crown exited from its last colony, Hong Kong. The British […]