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CPEC: Baluch protesters warn Chinese to leave Gwadar port

December 23, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: While China is battling the Covid-19 tsunami at home, its dream project, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is facing a fresh challenge from a local Pakistani outfit in Baluchistan which warned the Chinese workers to return to their country. The Baluch people have for long been protesting against the Chinese […]

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Roving Periscope: The US offers vaccines to China as cautious India braces for uncertainties ahead

December 23, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As China battled the Covid tsunami, its worst-ever health crisis threatening to snowball into a global challenge, the US on Friday offered effective vaccines to help control the coronavirus wave as India braced for uncertainties ahead, and added a nasal vaccine in its arsenal to meet the challenge. US Secretary […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Seeking support, Putin goes to Belarus, Zelensky to the US

December 22, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Frustrated over Russia’s failure to tame Ukraine despite shelling it relentlessly for 10 months, President Vladimir Putin asked his reluctant soldiers to do more and sought ally Belarus to open a second front, as his rival President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the US to bolster support to Kyiv to push back […]

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Covid-19: China may already be suffering with 1 mn infections and 5,000 deaths daily

December 22, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With the exponential spread of coronavirus, China is estimated to be already suffering with one million Covid-19 infections and around 5,000 deaths every day, the media reported on Thursday. The current virus wave sweeping the Asian giant may witness a daily case rise to 3.7 million infections in January and […]

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The Bug Returns: China, the US, Brazil, S. Korea, Japan…back on the Covid-19 map

December 21, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With India returning to the mask-and-sanitation regime, Covid-19 threatens to overwhelm not only China but also the US, South Korea, Brazil, Japan, and several other countries as their ships and aircraft potentially turn into carriers of the pandemic in the next few weeks, the media reported. With fresh coronavirus waves […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: After ‘Zero Covid’ collapse, China may face 3 killer waves in 3 months

December 21, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As China’s budget deficit hit a record low of USD 1.1 trillion this year because of the Zero Covid slump, the world’s second-largest economy is now headed to face its worst-ever year in decades—experts have warned of three killer waves of the highly-infectious Omicron’s B.7 variant in the next three […]

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Twitter: Elon Musk invites a “foolish enough” CEO to succeed him!

December 21, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Maverick innovator Elon Musk, 51, whose net worth as the world’s wealthiest man until a few weeks ago is plummeting, has said he will resign as Twitter’s CEO as soon as he finds a successor. In a tweet on Wednesday, he said, “I will resign as CEO as soon as I […]

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Economy: World Bank slashes Covid-battered China’s growth to 2.7%

December 20, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The surest sign of what China, the world’s second-largest economy, may face in 2023, came from the World Bank on Tuesday when it slashed its 2022 China growth forecast predicted in June at 4.3 percent to 2.7 percent now. Various reports have suggested that China could be overwhelmed with a […]

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Roving Periscope: Curbs gone, now China may face over two million Covid-19 deaths in 2023

December 20, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: For the first time since 1949, Communist-ruled China briefly became a ‘People’s Republic’ in November when, under extreme pressure because of the widespread protests against the Zero Covid policy across the country, it suddenly lifted brutal tactics to keep the potential and real pandemic victims behind doors. But this has […]

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Top 50 wilful defaulters owe Rs. 92,570 crores to Indian banks

December 20, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit     New Delhi: With the long arm of the law reaching them, the government informed Parliament that, as of March 2022, the top 50 wilful defaulters in India owed Rs 92,570 crore to the Public Sector Banks (PSBs). Union Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Karad told the Lok Sabha on Monday […]

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