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Afghanistan: IMF suspends engagement with Taliban govt

September 17, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Deeply concerned with dire economic conditions in war-torn Afghanistan, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has dealt it a body blow by suspending its engagement with the Taliban-controlled country until the world recognizes its interim and rather unstable government studded by proscribed terrorists. The US had already frozen USD 9.5 billion […]

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Afghanistan: A volcano even fire-spitting Dragon dare not step into

August 16, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After a two-decade-long hiatus, the Taliban’s returning to absolute power in Kabul on Sunday has once again turned Afghanistan into a cauldron no ‘superpower’ is ready to step into this “graveyard of empires”. Not even the wannabe ‘superpower’ People’s Republic of China (PRC). With America abandoning Kabul quickly, and President […]

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Muslim women: Triple talaq cases down 80%, says Naqvi

August 2, 2021 virendra pandit

Avya Mathur New Delhi: Within two years of the law against triple talaq, which Parliament passed on July 30, 2019, the number of divorce cases involving Muslim women has come down by around 80 percent, Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said here on Sunday. Before Parliament passed the Muslim Women (Protection […]

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Roving Periscope: Why China dreads a resurgent Taliban retaking Kabul’s control?

July 14, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the US-led multinational troops from 36 nations withdrawing all their soldiers by September 2021 from war-ravaged Afghanistan after 20 years, China is worried that the newly-resurgent Taliban could spur Islamic militancy in neighbouring Muslim-dominated Eastern Turkestan (which China calls “Xinjiang”, meaning New Territory). The US insistence to return from […]

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Emergency: PM Modi recalls the ‘Dark Days’, trampling of democracy

June 25, 2021 virendra pandit

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday took to Twitter to recall the Internal Emergency imposed on India by the then PM Indira Gandhi’s government in 1975. He tweeted, “The #DarkDaysOfEmergency can never be forgotten. The period from 1975 to 1977 witnessed the systematic destruction of institutions. Let us pledge to do everything possible […]

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WB polls: Police quiz Mithun Chakraborty, 71, for controversial speech

June 16, 2021 virendra pandit

New Delhi: Actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty, who turned 71 on Wednesday, was questioned in a virtual session by Kolkata Police in connection with one of his controversial speeches during campaigning for the recently-held Assembly elections in West Bengal. On a day many people greeted the actor on his 71st birthday, Chakraborty was busy […]

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Amit Shah Hints at More Desertions from the TMC Ranks in West Bengal

December 19, 2020 Editor In Chief

KOLKATA, Dec 19: As the union home minister Amit Shah forewarned the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Bannerjee of more desertions from her ruling Trinamool Congress in the next couple of months, her one-time lieutenant and minister in her cabinet for the last four and half years, Suvendu Adhikari joined the BJP along with a […]

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Four Hour Farmers’ “Symbolic Bharat Bandh” on Tuesday, Centre’s Advisory to States to Maintain Peace and Tranquility

December 7, 2020 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Dec 7: With thousands of farmers and their family members squatting around Delhi causing as many as seven borders connecting the national capital with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh remaining completely closed on Monday, the centre has issued advisory to all the states and union territories to handle with care the Bharat […]

Business

I.T.: LTI, Injazat tie up to accelerate digital transformation in M-E

December 7, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: That the Middle East, especially the Arab countries, are reducing their dependence on the West and China, and diversifying their portfolio in the service sector, was proved yet again with the Abu Dhabi-quartered Injazat partnering with India’s IT giant Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI) to accelerate digital transformation in the Middle […]

Important Stories

Roving Periscope: After ‘media’, Turkey hires terrorists for Kashmir

December 7, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After hiring Kashmiri separatists as ‘media persons’ and also Pakistan journalists, to spew venom against India, Turkey is now recruiting terrorists and Syrian mercenaries for ‘action’ in Kashmir, even paying them a higher ‘salary’ up to USD 2,000 (Rs.1.50 lakh) per month. According to media reports, Turkey is allegedly preparing to […]