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Price cut: Gail India, Adani Total Gas slashes gas prices of CNG and PNG

April 8, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: With the Union Cabinet approving new guidelines on gas pricing on Thursday, Gail India and Adani Total Gas Ltd (ATGL) reduced the prices of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Piped Natural Gas (PNG) with effect from midnight of April 8 and 9. ATGL slashed the CNG price by Rs 8.13 […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: China at it again—military exercises around Taiwan and threats

April 8, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: China’s military has resumed rehearsing the ‘encirclement’ of Taiwan during three days of military drills, the media reported on Saturday. Once again, Beijing reiterated that there is only One China and Taiwan is part of it, and called the operation a “stern warning” to the breakaway, democratically-ruled island’s government. Taiwan […]

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Business

MUDRA Yojana: Over 40 crores loans worth Rs. 23 lakh cr sanctioned in 8 years

April 8, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: More than 40.82 crore loans amounting to Rs 23.2 lakh crore have been sanctioned in the last eight years under the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) to facilitate easy collateral-free credit of up to Rs 10 lakh to micro-entrepreneurs for income-generating activities. On the eighth anniversary of PMMY, the Finance […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: China threatens two-front war—against India and Taiwan

April 6, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Refusing to learn from its loss of many soldiers against India in 2020, China now seems ready to double its own humiliation against both India and Taiwan. For, days after unilaterally “renaming” parts of Arunachal Pradesh as Chinese territory—which India promptly rejected—Beijing on Thursday upped the ante in Taiwan also […]

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Business

Economy: RBI retains repo rate at 6.5%, raises growth outlook in FY24

April 6, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: After raising the repo rate by 250 basis points since May 2022, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the RBI on Thursday pressed the pause button, a surprise move Governor Shaktikanta Das said should not be seen as an indicator of carrying out similar moves in the future. “The RBI […]

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Elections

Election: India elected to the top UN statistical body for a 4-year term

April 6, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi:  In a significant development, India has overwhelmingly been elected to the United Nations Statistical Commission for a four-year period in a “competitive” election in which China and South Korea are still vying for the remaining seat from the Asia Pacific category. Of the 53, India secured an overwhelming 46 votes, more […]

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Business

Her next ‘disappointment’: Court orders Stormy to pay $121k to Trump’s attorney!

April 5, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Donald Trump, a real estate tycoon in 2006, was 60 when he met adult film actress Stormy Daniels, 27. When Trump became the 45th US President (2017-22), she came into the spotlight after she recounted her encounter in a 2018 book “Full Disclosure”, expressing ‘disappointment’ in her relationship with him. […]

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Business

Bounce-back: Post-Hindenburg, Adani investor GQG sees 100% return

April 5, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The Adani Group’s value lies in its assets, a top world investor has said, as he predicted a 100 percent return on investment in the conglomerate. Companies of the Adani Group, whose market capitalization plummeted by over USD 150 billion after the January 24 publication of the controversial Hindenburg Research […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Arraigned, surrendered, arrested—Trump predicts ‘Armageddon’ under Biden

April 5, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After his surrender and arrest, former US President Donald Trump, 76, on Wednesday claimed the planet could suffer from a nuclear-charged Third World War under his successor Joe Biden, whom he also accused of receiving USD 10 million from China. Trump, who made history by becoming the first American President […]

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English

Roving Periscope: ‘Pakistani men abuse English women, kids’ says British Home Secy

April 4, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: British Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s said on Sunday that Pakistan-origin men’s ‘grooming gangs’ abuse White English girls and children. Indian-origin Braverman, known for her uncompromising stand on illegal migrants, came down heavily on Pakistani-origin men whom she alleged harmed White English girls in Britain. Some British Pakistanis were running child […]

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