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G-20: Members’ coop can prevent economic offenders from crossing borders, says PM Modi

August 12, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Asserting that cooperation between G-20 member nations can prevent economic offenders from using legal loopholes to cross borders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said an informal agreement between these countries’ enforcement agencies would strengthen their drive against fugitive criminals. Addressing via video-conferencing the Anti-Corruption Ministerial Meet of G-20 under […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Now, Pak SC throws a spanner in ex-PM Nawaz’s return from self-exile

August 11, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: In the ongoing political drama, Pakistan Supreme Court on Friday unanimously struck down a recently-passed judgments review law, which will now dim former Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif’s prospects to challenge his lifetime disqualification from contesting elections and return home. The apex court’s ruling came on the day his younger […]

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Business

Online gaming, casinos: LS passes amendments to two GST bills to impose a 28% tax

August 11, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Taking cognizance of online gaming’s runaway popularity, especially among youths and housewives, and its fallouts such as screen addiction, the Lok Sabha on Friday passed amendments to two Goods and Services (GST) bills to levy a 28 percent tax on gaming. The ambit of the two bills includes an equal […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Biden prohibits new investments in China’s high-tech cos

August 10, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Aiming to prevent American capital and innovations from helping China develop high technologies, that could support its military modernization and undermine the US national security, President Joe Biden has ordered a ban on fresh investments in those sectors in the Asian country. In a letter to the US Congress, he […]

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Confidence: From fragile to foremost economy in 9 years, says Sitharaman

August 10, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Asserting that the Indian economy is currently the fastest-growing in the world, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday that a global ranking company has moved its rating for India from fragile to foremost in the last 9 years of the Narendra Modi government. Addressing the Lok Sabha during the […]

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Business

Contraction: As post-Covid recovery falters, China’s economy slips into deflation

August 9, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The world’s second-largest economy, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), slipped into deflation in July for the first time in over two years as slowing domestic spending, and waning exports and imports, weigh heavily on the post-Covid economic recovery. The shock came a day after reports, quoting official data, emerged […]

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Roving Periscope: As Imran pleads ‘mercy’, and Shehbaz dissolves Parliament, bankrupt Pak sinks into uncertainty

August 9, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As Pakistan Prime Minister Mohammad Shehbaz Sharif prepared to dissolve the National Assembly on Wednesday, and set up an interim government to hold the next general elections without his predecessor in the fray, his jailed predecessor Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi has virtually pleaded for mercy. “Take me out of here; […]

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I-Day: US lawmakers to attend PM Modi’s Aug 15 address at the Red Fort

August 8, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: As India celebrates the 75th anniversary of Independence Day on August 15, a bipartisan group of leading US lawmakers will attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort in the national capital. The US Congressional delegation will be led by Indian-American Congressman […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Why didn’t the Saudis even invite Russia for Ukraine talks?

August 8, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: In this era of frenemies and geopolitical promiscuity, everything is possible. It appears the US, China, and Saudi Arabia are, for now, on the same page, and coming closer to isolating Russia on the Ukrainian issue. For, despite Russia being a member of the Saudi Arabia-led Organization of the Petroleum […]

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Education

Women: Iran sends anti-Hijab activists to psychiatrists, clean morgues

August 7, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: After lying low for a few months, Iran is punishing anti-Hijab women activists with psychiatric treatment, cleaning of morgues, and other means, the media reported. A court in Tehran province sentenced a woman to spend a month cleaning corpses in a morgue when she was caught driving without a hijab. […]

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