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The Gaza inferno: The US ‘returns’ to the Middle East, warns Iran, Hezbollah…and others

October 18, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The bottom line of the 12-day-old Hamas-Israeli conflict is that the United States, which had in recent years gradually ‘abandoned’ the Middle East—prompting China to try its luck in March 2023 to fill the supposed vacuum—has returned in full force to the planet’s biggest geopolitical cauldron. “I want you to […]

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Roving Periscope: Hospital blast kills over 500 in Gaza; Biden’s Jordan meet with Arab leaders called off

October 18, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: After a mysterious blast, that killed over 500 people in a Gaza hospital overnight and Hamas and Israel blamed each other for, US President Joe Biden landed in Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning, surprised that his proposed meeting with Arab leaders in Jordan later in the day has been canceled […]

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Exports: India to export 1mt of rice, but extends ban on sugar outgo beyond Oct 31

October 18, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Following concerns expressed abroad over food insecurity in many countries in the wake of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, India has allowed the export of 10.34 lakh tons of non-basmati white rice to seven countries on a government-to-government (G2G) basis but has extended the ban on sugar exports beyond October 3. […]

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Congress party’s abysmal record on rights of marginalised

October 18, 2023 Vinayak Barot

(Guru Prakash) Khusrupur, a small village near Patna, was in the news recently as a woman from the Dalit community was made to suffer the insufferable. Last month, she was reportedly stripped, and subject to unprintable humiliations because her husband had taken a loan worth Rs 1,500 and had not paid the interest to a […]

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“Dear friend”: Russia’s Vladimir Putin meets with China’s Xi Jinping

October 17, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: A day before US President Joe Biden lands in Israel on Wednesday, his bete noire Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing, the media reported on Tuesday. The occasion was China’s Belt and Road Initiative Forum Summit which Putin is attending for a third time. […]

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Roving Periscope: President Biden to visit Israel, Jordan on Wednesday to contain Hamas inferno

October 17, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: With a grievously bruised Israel determined to annihilate Hamas, and level to the ground its stronghold Gaza Strip— and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s whirlwind shuttle diplomacy to prevent a conflagration in the Middle East yielding little, a worried US President Joe Biden is visiting the Jewish state on […]

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Economy: India to be among the top three soon, says PM Modi

October 17, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: India is poised soon to be among the three largest economies in the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. The day is not far when India will achieve this distinction, he said, adding that everyone was looking at the country in the hope that it would lead the […]

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Roving Periscope: “Our hands on the trigger,” Iran warns Israel as the US tries to douse Hamas fires

October 16, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: As the United States frantically tried to contain the fallout of the 10-day-old Hamas-Israeli war from spreading across the Middle East and beyond, Tehran warned Tel Aviv of escalation. “Our hands are on the trigger.” Amid the catastrophe-like situation, and spiraling death count beyond 4,000 on both sides, United Nations […]

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War: Israel kills Oct 7 Hamas commander as thousands flee Gaza

October 14, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned them again to evacuate the strife-torn Gaza Strip, thousands of Palestinians fled south towards Egypt on Saturday while the Israeli forces killed a senior Hamas commander. India, which received the first batch of evacuated citizens on Friday, is sending another chartered aircraft to rescue […]

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IMEEC: With the Israel-Hamas conflict, the Corridor’s fate hangs in the balance

October 14, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi:   Barely a month after its announcement, the fate of the proposed India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEEC) has come under a cloud. During the G-20 Summit in New Delhi, India, the US, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, and the European Union signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on September 10 […]

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