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Roving Periscope: World braces for the worst as 900 mn Chinese now Covid-infected

January 14, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With the internal migration of hundreds of millions of Chinese beginning on January 7 for the Lunar New Year on January 22-23, over 900 million people in the Asian country are estimated to have already contracted infections because of the fresh resurgence of Covid-19 pandemic, the media reported on Saturday. […]

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Defence

Easter bombings: Sri Lankan SC orders ex-Prez Sirisena, and others to compensate victims

January 13, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The Supreme Court in Sri Lanka has found top government, police, and intelligence officials responsible for “failing to prevent” the 2019 Easter bombings in the island nation and ordered former President Maithripala Sirisena and others to pay millions of rupees as compensation to the victims. The Islamist serial suicide bombings, […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: After Trump, Biden also caught in ‘classified documents’ imbroglio

January 13, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Just like his controversial predecessor Donald Trump, US President Joe Biden has also been caught keeping ‘classified documents’ at his private residence and may face a high-level Congressional inquiry. “When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House,” Trump wrote on […]

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Business

Global South: PM Modi advocates ‘equivalent voice’ at all forums

January 12, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Advocating an ‘equivalent voice’ for the countries of Global South on all international forums, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the voice of these countries and their priorities are also that of India. Addressing the inaugural leaders’ session of the “Voice of Global South: For human-centric development,” through video-conferencing, he […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: ‘No safe limit for alcohol drinking’, says WHO

January 11, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Ten days after the New Year, 2023, kicked off—when liquor consumption worldwide is reported to be the maximum in a year—the World Health Organization (WHO) has said drinking alcohol is risky and there is no safe limit for its consumption for health. At least 200 million people in Europe alone […]

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Business

The $9 bn lifeline: Emboldened, bankrupt Pak may now spike terror attacks in India

January 10, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With donors assuring a USD 9 billion lifeline to rescue the sinking economy of a failed Pakistan, an emboldened Islamabad may multiply terrorist attacks on India to divert its hungry people’s attention from the internal Taliban challenge to revanchist agenda in Jammu and Kashmir in the next few weeks. Bankrupt […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: FM Nirmala asks Pravasi Bharatiyas to use Indian products, services

January 10, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday exhorted the Indian diaspora to increase their use of India-made products and services to give a fillip to the economic progress of their motherland. Speaking at the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas Sammelan at Indore, Madhya Pradesh, she said the Indian diaspora is the country’s […]

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Business

The ICICI case: Bombay HC grants bail to former CEO Chanda, husband Deepak Kochhar

January 9, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Six days ahead of their son’s marriage on January 15, ICICI Bank’s high-profile former Managing Director and CEO Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar, arrested in a bank loan case in December 2022, got temporary bail from the Bombay High Court on Monday. Terming their arrests by the CBI […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Brazil goes the Sri Lankan way, with a dash from the US!

January 9, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: In January 2020, pro-Donald Trump militants attacked the US Congress against the defeat of the former President in the November 2019 elections. In April 2021, anti-Rajapakse family Sri Lankans stormed into several important buildings, including the President’s Palace and Parliament, against an unprecedented economic crisis and forced President and the […]

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Business

Economy: Experts hails India’s arrival as the “third pole”, but challenges remain

January 7, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: India, a major middle-income economy, has done so well  that many see it as a country outperforming and emerging as the “third pole.” If any major middle-income country is truly outperforming in the coming decades, it’s the world’s soon-to-be third largest economy (and its largest democracy), India, Eurasia Group said […]

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