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The Giving Pledge: HCL’s Shiv Nadar donated Rs. 5.6 crore every day in 2022!

November 2, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The long tradition of billionaires donating huge sums for philanthropic causes in the West is now catching up amongst the Indian rich and famous as well. In all, 119 Indian billionaires donated Rs. 8,445 crores in 2021-22, which was 59 percent more than they gave away in the year before. […]

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Aviation: In a bank fraud case, ED seizes Jet Airways’ assets worth Rs. 538 crores

November 1, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday seized properties worth over Rs. 500 crore in an alleged money laundering case linked to Jet Airways (India) Ltd, whose founder, Naresh Goyal, siphoned off funds availed as loans from Canara Bank to buy personal assets. The properties include 17 residential flats, bungalows, and commercial buildings registered […]

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EVs: Three-wheeler sales double since 2019, diminish crime rates!

November 1, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Electric three-wheelers have caught India’s attention and their sales have doubled since 2019, as the total sales of three-wheelers reached a record over one lakh each in September and October this year. Overall, 102,426 three-wheelers were sold in September and 100,987 in October 2023, a significant 51 percent increase compared […]

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The Gaza War: Bolivia cuts Israel ties; two more LatAm countries ‘consult’ envoys

November 1, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The fallout of the ongoing Hamas-Israel war has not surfaced only in those countries where the Muslims have expressed solidarity with the Palestinian terror groups, taken out massive parades, and pressured their respective governments to favor the Palestinian cause, it has also started sucking in nations far away from the […]

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Roving Periscope: Presidents Biden, and Xi to meet in mid-November, says White House

November 1, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid the 24-day-long Gaza war intensifying and the 20-month-long Russia-Ukraine conflict going nowhere, the Presidents of the world’s two largest economies—Joe Biden of the US and Xi Jinping of China—are meeting in San Francisco this month—in a bid to resolve their differences, including mistrust and trade deficits. The two Presidents […]

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The Gaza War: As Israel penetrates deeper, the UN warns of a humanitarian catastrophe

October 31, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As Israel penetrated deeper into the Gaza Strip and the death toll mounted amid wanton destruction, the United Nations has warned that “an immediate ceasefire has become a matter of life and death for millions” of the Palestinians. Philip Lazzarini, who heads the UN agency for the Palestinian refugees, briefed […]

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Roving Periscope: Amid the Gaza, and Ukraine wars, the world tries to chain AI, the latest ‘technology monster’

October 31, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) was in the works for nearly five decades, its sudden ‘explosion’ a year ago took the world by surprise…so much so that its major stakeholders, including the US, the UK, and the European Union, are trying to chain the ‘monster’ lest it damage the world amid […]

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Season’s worries: Ahead of Assembly elections, onion prices up, demand down

October 31, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: It happens almost every year when the gap between two crops shoots the prices up. As five state assemblies go to the polls in the coming weeks, the onion prices have gone through the roof across India in the last 10 days. This price rise has pulled down the bulb’s […]

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San Francisco: ‘The road to Biden-Xi meeting in Nov not smooth,’ says China

October 30, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Hinting that the Sino-American bilateral relations have come to a halt, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the road to the proposed meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping in November in San Francisco is “unlikely to be smooth.” According to the media reports, Yi said the “road to […]

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Roving Periscope: Angry Muslims build pressure against Israel, worldwide

October 30, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Ignoring the Hamas’ brutal invasion of Israel on October 7, which has since left nearly 10,000 people dead and wounded many more on both sides in the ongoing Israeli counteroffensive, Muslim activists across the world are building up pressure on their respective governments to take action against the Jewish nation. […]

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