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Roving Periscope: Terrorists kill 10 police officers as Pakistan hurtles into Feb 8 polls

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Amid socio-economic and political conflagrations, and the February 8 elections to the National Assembly, terrorists struck a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 10 police officers. More than 30 terrorists attacked the police station early morning and, after an hours-long assault, killed the police officers, the […]

China: IMF predicts 4.6% growth in 2024 and 4% in 2025; calls for data transparency

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected a 4.6 percent growth in China’s economy this year and 4 percent in 2025, even as it called for greater transparency in financial and economic data availability, underlined by a six-month suspension of official youth unemployment data. Uncertainty surrounding China’s economy remains high […]

Roving Periscope: Attacking Iran-linked targets, the US sinks deeper into the Middle East’s marshes

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Although Iran has yet to respond in kind—it has for long been only threatening the US of dire retaliation—the American attacks on Iranian-linked targets in the Middle East on Friday have pushed it down deeper into the volatile region’s inferno. The US launched airstrikes against Iranian forces and militias in […]

Aviation: Loss-making Pakistan International Airlines up for sale

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As Islamabad braces for the General Elections to the National Assembly next week, its caretaker government has fast-tracked a plan to sell loss-making state-owned Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the media reported on Friday. In the past, the South Asian nation’s elected governments shied away from undertaking unpopular reforms, including the […]

Budget highlights: Good news on fiscal deficit, infra, SHGs, green energy…and more

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The following are the key takeaways from the Interim Budget 2024 that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled in Parliament on Thursday. The Interim Union Budget for the financial year 2024-25 focused on fiscal consolidation, infrastructure, agriculture, green growth, and railways. However, no changes were made in the tax rates, disappointing […]
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