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Vibrant Gujarat 2024: With $5 trn GDP, India to be the third-largest economy by FY28, says FM

January 10, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   Gandhinagar: India is all set to become the third-largest economy by 2027-28, with a GDP of over USD 5 trillion, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Wednesday. Going by even conservative estimates, the size of the Indian economy will be USD 30 trillion by 2047, she said at the Vibrant Gujarat Global […]

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Vibrant Gujarat: Adani to invest Rs. 2 trn; Reliance to set up carbon fiber facility

January 10, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   Gandhinagar: Billionaire Gautam Adani on Wednesday announced his group will invest Rs. 2 lakh crores, largely in building the world’s largest renewable energy park that would be visible even from space. Speaking at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2024 here, he said this investment would potentially create 1 lakh jobs. Of the […]

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Too clever by half: A week on, China supports the Maldives and hits back at India!

January 9, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Being utterly predictable is the worst thing in geopolitics. That’s what ails China. Everybody knows how and when the Dragon would change color like a chameleon but China reassures itself nobody would notice! So, it was unsurprising—both on January 2 and on January 9—when China alternated its praise and condemnation […]

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Pakistan: Already jailed, Imran ‘arrested’ for attacks on the military premises

January 9, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Nearly a month ahead of General Elections to the National Assembly, former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, already behind bars since August 2023, was on Tuesday ‘arrested’ on charges of attacks on the army establishments in the troubled South Asian nation on May 9 last year. An Anti-Terrorism […]

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Roving Periscope: ‘China’s attack on Taiwan may cost the world USD 10 trillion’

January 9, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Alerts and warnings flooded mobile telephones across Taiwan on Tuesday as China fired a rocket over the south of the island state, just four days before Taipei goes to elections on January 13. It wasn’t a missile as Taiwan initially believed, but a satellite. But the mistrust between Beijing and […]

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Pakistan: SC clears Army-supported Nawaz’s return to power next month

January 8, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday scrapped the lifetime disqualification clause in the Constitution, paving the way for the possible return of three-time Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif to power after the February 8 election to the National Assembly, the media reported. The clause under Article 62 (1) (f) of […]

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Technology: Microsoft to train one lakh Indian developers in AI tools

January 8, 2024 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: Technology behemoth Microsoft Corporation on Monday announced the launch of an artificial intelligence (AI) Odyssey initiative to train around 100,000 Indian developers in the latest AI technologies and tools. These developers will be trained in a month-long program open to all, without any work experience or background preference, the media reported. “The AI […]

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Roving Periscope: Amid Islamist opposition boycott, Hasina wins 5th term in Bangladesh

January 8, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed won re-election for a fifth term, amid a boycott led by the main opposition party she branded a “terrorist organization,” the media reported on Monday. Until the latest reports became available, the media said, her political party Awami League (AL) won 223 seats out […]

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Battle of the Begums: B’desh Opposition starts 48-hr strike against “one-sided” elections on Sunday

January 6, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Fearing electoral reverses once again, Bangladesh’s main Opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party headed by two-time former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, and other opposition groups, started a ‘general strike’ on Saturday, ahead of the Sunday elections to Parliament. These opposition parties, supported by Islamic militants, are boycotting the polls, claiming […]

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Exports: India optimistic about outgo worth $ 2 trillion by 2030, says Piyush Goyal

January 6, 2024 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: As the Indian economy grows by leaps and bounds, the country is targeting to export goods and services worth USD 2 trillion by 2030. Raising this optimism on Saturday, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said the country will meet its ambitious export target by 2030, notwithstanding geopolitical headwinds and inflationary concerns. […]

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