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Canada: “Trudeau incompetent…will restore ties with India,” says Oppn chief

October 25, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is ‘incompetent and unprofessional’, Conservative Party and opposition leader Pierre Poilievre said on Tuesday and vowed to ‘restore relationship with New Delhi’ if he becomes the next PM. “We need a professional relationship with the Indian government. India is the largest democracy on Earth. And it’s […]

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UNSC: India snubs Pak attempts to link Kashmir with Palestine

October 25, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India has said it will treat Pakistan’s reference to Kashmir at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on the Israel-Gaza conflict with the “contempt it deserves,” and will not dignify it with a response. The remarks by India’s Deputy Permanent Representative at the UN, Ambassador R Ravindra, came on […]

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Roving Periscope: Israel says ready to invade Gaza—and asks UN chief to quit

October 25, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Continuing its air strikes on the Gaza Strip for more than two weeks now, Israel on Wednesday said it is ‘ready’ to launch a ground attack on the Gaza Strip, the hideout of Hamas terrorists, and also took potshots at the United Nations chief, demanding that Antonio Guterres should resign […]

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Gaming: Centre asks online firms to cough up Rs. one lakh crore as GST

October 25, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A month after cracking the whip on several online gaming companies, the Centre has served show-cause notices to them to pay GST to the tune of Rs. one trillion (one lakh crore). India’s cricket maniacs, who fell for celebrities endorsing online games, have reportedly ended up losing billions of rupees […]

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Energy: IAEA chief meets PM Modi, praises India as a responsible nuclear power

October 25, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid loose talks on the use of nuclear weapons, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has praised India as a responsible nuclear power. This statement came after some uninformed people—including a section of the media—advocated the use of nuclear weapons to settle conflicts like those between Russia and Ukraine and […]

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Electricity: ‘By 2050, India’s ACs would consume more power than entire Africa’

October 24, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India is geographically larger than Europe, minus Russia’s European part, and the British called the South Asian country a ‘subcontinent.’ By 2050, however, the air-conditioners installed in a rising India will alone consume more electricity than an entire continent—Africa—will do. India’s demand for electricity for running household air conditioners is […]

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Economy: India to surpass Japan, become second-largest in Asia-Pacific, 3rd in the world

October 24, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Post-pandemic, India, which has emerged as the fifth-largest economy worldwide, may overtake Japan to become the third-largest with a GDP of USD 7.3 trillion and also the second-largest in Asia after China by 2030. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence’s latest issue of PMI, after two years of rapid economic […]

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Khalistan: “Canadian diplomats misused powers, gave visas to separatists”

October 23, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid the month-long Canada-India row, and New Delhi packing off 41 Canadian diplomats in one go last week, the media reported on Monday that these envoys were “misusing their power and granting visas to Khalistan supporters.” According to reports, the Canadian diplomats had gone “very soft” on visas to […]

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Roving Periscope: Saudi Prince slams Hamas, asks it to learn from India’s Independence Movement

October 23, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid the Hamas-Israeli conflict in the Middle East, which has claimed over 6,000 lives and wounded thousands of others since October 7, a veteran Saudi Prince has slammed and advised the Palestinian terror group to learn from India’s Independence Movement. Prince Turki Al Faizal also revealed that Hamas sabotaged the […]

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Pakistan: Court indicts ex-PM Imran Khan for making ‘secret cable’ public

October 23, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Two days after his predecessor Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif returned home from a four-year-long self-exile in the United Kingdom, a Pakistani court framed charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan for making public the contents of a ‘secret diplomatic cable.’ The local media reported on Monday that Imran ‘leaked’ the […]