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Economy: India’s GDP is up, but any hike in crude prices could dent progress

November 6, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As rating agency Fitch on Monday upgraded India’s mid-term GDP growth forecast from 5.5 percent earlier to 6.2 percent now, investment banker Morgan Stanley cautioned that any crude price hike above USD 110 per barrel might force the RBI to increase interest rates again. For 2023-24, Fitch said the Indian […]

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Roving Periscope: Amid Taliban’s protest and threats, Pak deports 170,000 Afghans

November 6, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Islamabad, which is shedding tears over the plight of fellow Muslim Palestinians of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip amid its war with Israel, has itself deported nearly 170,000 ‘unregistered’ poor Afghan refugees in about two weeks, despite the Taliban’s threats and approaching winter. The media reports, quoting Pakistan’s border officials, said […]

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Super-volcano: First time since the 1538 eruption, Italy prepares to evacuate thousands

November 4, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Italy is preparing to evacuate tens of thousands of people because a super-volcano, Campi Flegrei, is threatening to erupt any day, for the first time since its last eruption in 1538, the media reported on Saturday. The government started planning for a possible mass evacuation because the volcanic activity has […]

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Roving Periscope: Hamas ‘predicts’ the USA’s Soviet-type collapse!

November 4, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As Israel relentlessly encircled Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, killing many and wounding even more people, the Hamas terror outfit ‘predicted’ that the USA, the chief supporter of the Jewish state, would “collapse just like the USSR”, at a time US Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to […]

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Testing own medicine: Terrorists attack Pak air force base, damage 3 aircraft, all 9 killed

November 4, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As Pakistan forced 1.7 million “illegal” Afghan refugees to flee home this week, supports the Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel, and heads to hold General Elections to the National Assembly in February next year, a little-known terror outfit, Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan (TJP) launched a massive attack on a major Pakistan Air […]

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Hezbollah: Now, Russia’s Wagner Group may arm the Iran-supported outfit with advanced missiles

November 3, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Iran and Russia are likely to unofficially enter the Hamas-Israel war through their proxies–Hezbollah and the Wagner militia–to expand the Middle East conflict into a wider area. Ever since Russia invaded its neighbor on February 24, 2022, the US-led West has been arming and funding the war-torn Ukraine to prolong […]

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Roving Periscope: AI the most ‘disruptive force’ in history, warns Elon Musk

November 3, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The world’s wealthiest person and among the foremost technology savants, Elon Musk, has dubbed Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the “most disruptive force in history.” “We will have something smarter than the smartest man,” he remarked, adding “As a result, there will come a point where no job is needed. You […]

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The Gaza War: India favors a two-state solution, says Oct 7 Hamas attack on Israel a “big terror act”

November 3, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Reiterating India’s time-tested policy of zero tolerance for terrorism in all its formats, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas was an “act of terrorism,” as he emphasized a two-state solution on the Palestinian issue for ushering in peace in the Middle East.  […]

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Neighbors: India for deepening civilizational ties, and economic integration with Sri Lanka

November 3, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said India favors deepening its civilizational ties and economic integration with India and will closely work with the island nation on debt restructuring attempts and economic recovery. Addressing the India-Sri Lanka Business Summit in Colombo on Thursday, during a three-day visit, she urged industry […]

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Roving Periscope: As Nawaz returns, Afghans flee, Pakistan announces Feb 11 polls

November 2, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Days after three-time Prime Minister Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif returned home after four years in self-exile in London to try his luck a fourth time, and Islamabad started a crackdown on 1.7 million Afghan refugees to force them out amid Taliban threats, the Election Commission of Pakistan  (ECP) on Thursday […]

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