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Roving Periscope: “Annihilate the US, S. Korea….if provoked,” Kim orders N. Korean army!

January 1, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: North Korea’s dynastic dictator Kim Jong Un, viewed as China’s convenient proxy, opened the New Year 2024 with an order to his military to “thoroughly annihilate the United States and South Korea”—if provoked. As he usually does, Kim is likely to ramp up weapons tests in 2024 ahead of the […]

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2024: The world needs India as a reliable challenger to China, says Mahindra

January 1, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The world needs India to become a reliable challenger to China’s supply chain dominance, Mahindra & Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra said on Monday in his New Year message. The first day of the New Year opens a new chapter and a fresh opportunity for optimism and renewal. It provides […]

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Convicted: In a labor law case, Nobel Laureate Md. Yunus gets six months in jail in Bangladesh

January 1, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus and three others were on Monday convicted in a labor law court case in Bangladesh and awarded a six-month jail term, the media reported. Lead prosecutor Khurshid Alam Khan said that Professor Yunus and three of his Grameen Telecom colleagues were convicted under labour laws […]

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Roving Periscope: South Africa accuses Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza, moves ICJ

December 30, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: In a first, South Africa, which suffered the perils of the Whites’ apartheid policy for decades before achieving freedom, on Friday filed a case in the World Court against Israel for allegedly carrying out ‘genocide’ in Gaza, but the Jewish state’s foreign ministry rejected the suit as “baseless.” According to […]

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Growth: India has transformed from a savers’ to an investors’ nation, says Kotak

December 30, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: In the last four decades, India has transformed from a country of savers to a nation of investors, leading banker Uday Kotak said on Friday. The tussle between the two models of savers and borrowers on one side and the issuers and investors on the other is underway, the founder […]

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Roving Periscope: Another ‘setback’ to Donald Trump’s candidacy in the 2024 US polls

December 29, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: After Colorado, Maine became the second US state to throw a spanner in Donald Trump’s attempts to become the President again next year as the US Supreme Court started weighing a State’s authority to block the former President from contesting, the media reported. Reacting to this latest setback, the Trump […]

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The Gaza War: Pak PM announces a ‘strict ban’ on New Year celebrations

December 29, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Himself a Baloch, he was not moved when the notorious Pakistani Army and the Islamabad police brutally crushed a Baloch women’s 1,200-km-long march amid biting cold early this month. Thousands of these women, and their supporters, were treated like animals before stuffing them into prisons. But Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister […]

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Technology: Equipped with AI, Google may sack thousands of employees

December 29, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Post innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), search engine behemoth Google is likely to sack thousands of employees. Earlier, Google had laid off nearly 12,000 employees which its CEO Sundar Pichai deemed essential for the company’s adaptability and capacity to invest in emerging areas amid a transformative global environment, the media […]

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Elections: Putin, contesting himself, extends good wishes to PM Modi for 2024 LS polls

December 28, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is contesting the March 2024 elections to retain his office, has extended good wishes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Lok Sabha elections due by May 2024. Referring to the Lok Sabha election due mid-next year, President Putin said he wished “our friends every […]

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NPAs: Bad assets of banks decline multi-year low of 0.8% in September 2023

December 28, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday said the net non-performing assets (NPAs) ratio of banks declined to a multi-year low of 0.8 percent at the end of September 2023 and that the country’s domestic financial system remains resilient. “The resilience of the non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) sector improved […]

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