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Roving Periscope: “No bilateral talks”, says Bilawal Bhutto about India visit

April 21, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Coming as he does on the orders of the all-powerful Army, “the Establishment”—or as many scared Pakistanis identify it as Naamaaloom (You Know Who!), Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has clarified that there is no chance of bilateral talks with India during his visit to Goa in May to attend the […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Pak FM Bilawal to lead a ‘delegation’ to SCO meet in India

April 20, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the grandson of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who, in 1972, had vowed to fight the war against India for a “thousand years,” will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers’ meeting at Goa next month. India and Pakistan became permanent members of the […]

Defence

G-7: FMs warn Russia, and underscore India’s importance in the Indo-Pacific

April 19, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: At the end of their conference in Japan, the Foreign Ministers of the Group of Seven nations warned that any Russian use of nuclear weapons would be met with ‘severe consequences’, as they also underscored cooperation with India in view of its importance in the Indo-Pacific Region. They also reaffirmed […]

Business

Almost a civil war: Over 200 dead in Sudan as combatants attack the US convoy, and EU envoys

April 18, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nearly 200 people died and hundreds were injured in the ongoing ‘civil war’ between the forces of friends-turned-foes that broke out four days ago between the Sudanese army and a powerful militia as a US diplomatic convoy and the EU envoy also came under attack, the media reported on Tuesday. […]

Business

Roving Periscope: After the Saudi-Iran deal, China tries to untie the Israel-Palestine knots

April 18, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The fluttering Dragon is trying to land on the volatile runway in the Middle East, and elbow out the West from what may emerge as the most important geopolitical strategy in the 21st century. And this is when an atheist China is virtually stamping out both the monotheist faiths—Christianity and […]

Business

Ramadan: Pak police arrest a Chinese engineer for his “blasphemous” remarks

April 17, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For the first time, the Pakistan police on Sunday evening arrested a Chinese engineer of a construction company in the restive Khaiber-Pakhtunkhwa Province on charges of ‘blasphemy’ and ‘insulting Allah’ during the ongoing Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported. The unnamed engineer of […]

Business

Trade: At over $128 bn, the US became India’s biggest trading partner in FY23

April 17, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With increasing, strengthening, and deepening economic ties between the two countries, the USA emerged as India’s biggest trading partner in 2022-23, according to the provisional data of the Union Commerce Ministry. The bilateral trade between India and the US increased by 7.65 percent to USD 128.55 in 2022-23, compared to USD […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Pak turning into a ‘zombie state’, says its own top economist

April 17, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pakistan Prime Minister Mian Mohammad Shehbaz Sharif, who has desperately been seeking financial bailouts from whoever would extend a lifeline, famously said “Beggars cannot be choosers.” His Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif openly declared a few weeks ago that Pakistan was already bankrupt. Now, Pakistan’s leading economist and former government […]

English

Not tiny, Goa is like a bindiya on Bharat Mata’s forehead: Shah

April 16, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Home Minister Amit Shah Sunday came down heavily on senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge for insulting states like Goa, Uttarakhand and others in the Northeast with his “tiny” remark, essentially to convey that these states have very little or no importance on a vast India. Denouncing Kharge, Shah said these states are important parts of […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Japanese PM Kishida unhurt, survives blast at a poll campaign

April 15, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Less than a year after former Prime Minister Shinjo Abe’s assassination during an election campaign, incumbent Japanese PM Fumio Kishida survived a blast during his rally as police promptly caught the attacker, the media reported on Saturday. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving PM for nine years, died in July 2022. His death […]