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Telecom: With 3 years’ target surpassed in 6 months, India to expand 5-G services

March 1, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In a rare feat, as the Indian telecommunication companies have surpassed the three-year 5-G rollout target given to them within six months, the government is all set to enhance the adoption of 5-G applications across various key segments in India. According to the media reports, quoting VL Kantha Rao, Additional […]

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Roving Periscope: 30 lakh textile, other workers may lose jobs in Pakistan

March 1, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid reports that a broke Islamabad is also considering rationing food supplies even to the all-powerful armed forces, and that many companies are paying only 15-days’ salaries to their staff, Pakistan is likely to see millions of employees and workers being thrown out of jobs in the coming weeks. With […]

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G-20 FMM: A two-day meeting begins in New Delhi

March 1, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The capital of India is hosting from Wednesday evening an important meeting of foreign ministers of the member-states of the Group of 20 (G-20) economies in the backdrop of the recent conclave of these countries’ finance ministers and central bank chiefs in Bengaluru which ended without a consensus, or a […]

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Covid-19: After 945 days, Hong Kong people drop masks, breathe freely

February 28, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The world’s longest mask mandate ended in Hong Kong on Tuesday, literally giving its people breathing space as they will no longer have to wear masks from Wednesday, made compulsory after the outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020. Masks will no longer be necessary outdoors, indoors, or on public transport, Hong […]

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Roving Periscope: The US reopens Covid origin issue, says it may have spread from a Chinese lab

February 28, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As Sino-US relations deteriorate further and America goes to the presidential polls next year, the theory of the Covid-19 virus first circulating in Wuhan around November 2019 and spreading from a laboratory, has resurfaced. And, if she became US President in 2024, Indian-origin hopeful Nikki Haley has vowed to cut […]

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G-20: FMs may fail to draw consensus over Russia—Ukraine war, debt burdens

February 25, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine entered the second year on Thursday, a meeting of finance chiefs of the Group of 20 (G-20) countries may have failed to arrive at a consensus over the devastating war and the debt burden of the “Global South.” Russia, a member […]

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Roving Periscope: The US, and India discuss China’s debt traps around Sri Lanka, Pak, Nepal

February 25, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With China extending yet another USD 700 million “credit facility” to bailout its “all-weather” bankrupt ally Pakistan on Friday, the US has expressed “deep concern” over Beijing’s debt-trap diplomacy to trap poor countries and encircling India, prompting it to hold “serious talks” with New Delhi. On Friday, Pakistani Finance Minister […]

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Aviation: Tata-owned Air India to hire 4,200 cabin crew, and 900 pilots in 2023

February 24, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after announcing a nearly USD 80 billion deal for the acquisition of 470 passenger aircraft from the US behemoth Boeing and France’s Airbus SE, in the largest-ever deal in the world’s aviation history, Air India on Friday said it will hire over 4,200 cabin crew trainees, and 900 pilots […]

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Roving Periscope: China, which attacked India in 2020, wants peace in Ukraine!

February 24, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: On Friday’s first anniversary of the ongoing war in Ukraine, China claimed neutrality, then blamed the West and its allies for ‘inciting’ the Russian invasion and called on all parties to support the two countries in reaching “a comprehensive ceasefire.” In fact, China spoke a lot without really saying anything […]

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Roving Periscope: As the wealthy frolic, broke Pakistan announces austerity for ministers, officers

February 23, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A week after hundreds of wealthy Pakistanis thronged an upmarket mall in Lahore and queued up for hours to grab expensive branded coffees and pastries from Canadian food chain Tim Hortons, Islamabad announced on Wednesday some ‘austerity measures’ for ministers and officials to somehow impress the International Monetary Fund (IMF) […]