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Roving Periscope: Unease in Pakistan as Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye support India

September 11, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Pakistan’s last key bastions of support in the Muslim Ummah (Brotherhood) may have fallen. For, Turkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the only Muslim leader supporting Pakistan on the Kashmir issue, said on Monday that his country will be ‘proud’ if a country like India becomes a permanent member of the […]

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Post-G20 success: Sensex zooms past 67k, Nifty crosses 20k, as manufacturing awaits a Chandrayaan-3 moment

September 11, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi; The stupendous success of the G20 Summit was reflected immediately on Monday at the country’s stock markets where Sensex zoomed by 500 points and Nifty50 touched the 20,000 mark for the first time, enthused as India Inc. is with the newly proposed India-Middle East-Europe (IMEE) Economic Corridor for a multinational […]

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Roving Periscope: With the 18th G-20 Summit, a ‘world without China’ policy begins

September 10, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Trust China to sabotage anything good if it has no control over it. That sums up why Xi Jinping skipped the just-concluded G-20 Summit. Prime Minister Narendra Modi completely dominated the two-day event; besides, the powerful but ailing Chinese dictator had no appetite to face the frail democratic US President […]

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G-20: The New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration skips Russia’s role in Ukraine

September 9, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Trying to walk a tightrope, member countries of the ongoing G-20 Summit here on Saturday, while decrying the “use of force” in Ukraine, refrained from naming Russia whose war against its neighbor continues after over 18 months of invasion. The West and its allies had insisted on a stronger language […]

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Roving Periscope: In bilateral with PM Modi, US President Biden woos India with more ‘gifts’

September 9, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: While other world leaders are visiting India for a day or two to participate in the ongoing G-20 Summit (September 9 and 10), what is US President Joe Biden doing in New Delhi for four days (September 8 to 11)? That sums up the US-India bonhomie to take their bilateral […]

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Beyond G-20: Countering BRI, the Saudis, US, India, and others to ink logistics deal

September 9, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Two years after US President Joe Biden announced in a G-7 meeting the USD 40 trillion global infrastructure initiative called the Build Back Better World (B3W) to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), America, India, the European Union, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are set to sign a major […]

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Day 1: AU the new member of G-20; now diplomats busy on Russia-Ukraine tangle

September 9, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Like the increasingly ‘irrelevant’ United Nations, the second-largest association of countries, Group of 20 (G-20) has so far produced little in its previous 17 Summits. But the 18th could be remembered for at least three key takeaways: induction of the 55-member African Union (AU) as G-20’s 21st member, a possible […]

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Roving Periscope: To legitimize annexation, Putin holds sham ‘polls’ in occupied Ukraine areas!

September 8, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Although he is skipping the two-day G-20 Summit in New Delhi, beginning on Saturday—he will not even address it virtually!—Russian President Vladimir Putin is all set to showcase his ‘democratic’ side—to get votes for his candidates at gun-point in the occupied areas of Ukraine where Moscow is waging a relentless, […]

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G-20: Summit to chart a new path in human-centric development, says PM Modi

September 8, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: On the eve of the Group of 20 (G-20) Summit, its host, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed confidence that the mega-event will chart a new path in human-centric and inclusive development across the world. Invoking Mahatma Gandhi, he said on X (formerly Twitter) that it is important to […]

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G-20 Summit: Amid unprecedented security, India ready to host the 2-day mega-event

September 8, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Forty-one Heads of State/Government and other world leaders will participate in the much-anticipated, 18th Group of 20 (G-20) Summit beginning here on Saturday, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said. Over 50,000 security personnel have been deployed in the highly sensitive part of New Delhi and strict vigil and traffic arrangements will […]

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