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The Road to Goa: “Very difficult to engage” with Pakistan, says Dr. Jaishankar

April 25, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Barely 10 days ahead of the Goa conclave of foreign ministers of the member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar took a dig at Pakistan, saying it is “very difficult to engage” with a neighbor which practices cross-border terrorism against India. The SCO’s Council of […]

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Business

The Ageless: Joe Biden, 80, throws the hat in the ring for the 2024 Presidential election

April 25, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior—or Joe Biden—turned 80 in November 2022. The 46th US President has, ever since he took the oath in January 2021, repeatedly demonstrated that he has aged. He even forgot the name of his deputy, Vice President Kamala Harris. His videos went viral telling the world how […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Riding Ukraine, and the ex-Soviets’ bogie, China pushes the Taiwan plot

April 25, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: From the start, it hinted that China was eyeing Taiwan from behind the smokescreens of Ukraine and other former Soviet republics, which are all internationally recognized, sovereign, and territorially-integrated full members of the United Nations. Taiwan is not. The fact is, China is the Dragon, sanitized of any human emotions […]

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Business

SCO: China’s Defense Minister may hold a bilateral meeting with Rajnath Singh

April 24, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The visiting Chinese Defense Minister General Li Shangfu is likely to hold bilateral talks with his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh later this week, the media reported on Monday. General Li, a close confidante of President Xi Jinping, will be on a two-day maiden visit to India to attend the Defense […]

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Business

Defense: After the US and China, India is the third-largest military spender

April 24, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After the United States and China, India has emerged as the planet’s third-largest military spender at USD 76.6 billion this year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a global report on Monday. India (11 percent), Saudi Arabia (9.6 percent), and Qatar (6.4 percent) are the world’s largest […]

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Business

Revanchism: To push its own Taiwan designs, China almost ‘justifies’ Russian invasion of Ukraine

April 24, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After wooing France, a revanchist China, like Russia, is trying to turn the clock back. And to buttress its claims as ‘righteous’ on Taiwan, it has given a new twist to the Ukraine saga: Beijing has claimed that the former Soviet Union’s breakaway republics, including Ukraine, have “no actual status […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Nawaz supporter and Ex-PM Abbasi warns of a military coup in Pakistan

April 24, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said the Pakistan Army staged coups in the past in less severe circumstances, while the current political and economic crises are so critical that they may attract a military takeover anytime. The media reported on Monday that Abbasi, a senior leader of the […]

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Elections

Roving Periscope: Amid confrontation with judiciary, Pakistan curtails SC Chief Justice’s powers

April 22, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid ongoing confrontation between the judiciary, parliament, and executive, the Shahbaz Sharif government on Friday curtailed the Chief Justice of Pakistan’s powers as it suspected the judges were favoring former Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi and his party and creating political instability. Currently, leading jurist Umar Ata Bandial, 65, […]

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Business

Green signal: The US to issue over a million visas to Indians this year

April 22, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The USA is set to create a record by issuing over 10 lakh visas to Indians in 2023, an official said on Friday, adding the Biden administration will process all of the student visas for Indians whose school starts this fall. According to the media reports, US Assistant Secretary of […]

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Business

Britain: Sunak’s deputy announces resignation on ‘bullying’ issue!

April 21, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: In India, politicians bullying others is routine—in fact, most ‘bulls’ consider it their birthright. But the British, who bullied the world for over three centuries, now take it as a serious matter! That is why British Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Dominic Raab had to announce his resignation on […]

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