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Day 2: PM Modi gifts a Made in India diamond to First Lady Jill Biden

June 22, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: During his meeting with President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden at the White House on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted, among other things, a Made in India, laboratory-grown Green Diamond to the US First Lady, the media reported. According to the Prime Minister’s office, the gift is […]

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Day 2: India to sign Artemis Accord, send a joint mission to ISS, says WH

June 22, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: On the second day of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first State Visit to the US, the White House said on Thursday that India has decided to join the Artemis Accords, which brings like-minded countries together on civil space exploration, and NASA and ISRO have agreed to a joint mission to […]

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Day 2: GE+HAL to make Tejas engines; INDUS X launched for defense, technology cooperation

June 22, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: General Electric’s subsidiary GE Aerospace and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd will jointly produce fighter jet engines for the Indian Air Force (IAF)’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Mk-II, popularly known as Tejas, India’s indigenously-developed, single-engine, fourth-generation, high-agility, multirole, supersonic light combat aircraft. In a landmark announcement, GE Aerospace said this on Thursday […]

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Praise: “India’s, and PM Modi’s time has come…he is a radical reformer,” says Ray Dalio

June 21, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi:  One of America’s top billionaire investors Ray Dalio on Wednesday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying India’s and its PM’s time has come, and termed him as a “radical reformer” with the capability and popularity of bringing out transformative changes in India. After meeting Modi in New York, Dalio said […]

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Day One: “I’m Modi’s fan; may visit India in 2024,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk

June 21, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: “India has more promise than any other large nation,” said the world’s richest man on Wednesday after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York, adding he looked forward to visiting India next year as he is a Modi fan. About Tesla’s plans in India, its CEO Elon Musk asserted […]

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N-power: China extends a fresh USD 4.8 bn loan, inks deal for a 1200 MW plant in Pakistan

June 20, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Days after extending yet another loan of USD 1 billion to a nearly bankrupt Pakistan, China on Tuesday signed a USD 4.8 billion deal with its “all-weather friend” to set up a 1200 megawatt nuclear power plant, the media reported. Of Pakistan’s burden of nearly USD 130 billion in external […]

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Panicked Dragon: China urges India not to join the “US’ selfish game”, then boasts it will fail!

June 20, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday left for his landmark US visit, China urged India not to join the “US’ selfish game”, and then, in the same breath, claimed that even if New Delhi did so, it is bound to fail! Top diplomat and former Chinese Foreign Minister Wang […]

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Modi: ‘Leadership at global institutions like the UNSC should be re-evaluated’

June 20, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid growing demands to expand the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) by including India (besides Brazil, Germany, Japan, and South Africa) as Permanent Member, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that given New Delhi’s role in global peacekeeping and its economic prowess, the “world should be asked if it wants […]

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Roving Periscope: PM Modi leaves for 5-day State Visits to the US and Egypt

June 20, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: “Together we stand stronger,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday morning when he left for a historic five-day State Visit to the United States and Egypt. It is his first State Visit to the US and only second by an Indian PM. The key takeaway from his US visit […]

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War of Attrition: Who sabotaged the 2022 “peace treaty” between Russia and Ukraine?

June 19, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: When Russia launched a “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, it fancied the weaker neighbor could surrender within “48 to 72 hours.” That was why Moscow had not formally declared the action as a “war.” But the conflict, which became an all-out war for both countries, continues […]

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