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Roving Periscope: India-EFTA deal on Sunday; likely with the UK after LS polls

March 9, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While India is set to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with a group of four European nations on Sunday (March 10), its much-awaited deal with the United Kingdom is likely to be inked only after the Lok Sabha elections in April-May 2024. India and the European bloc EFTA will sign […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Courtesy his bete noire Nawaz, Zardari to return as President!

March 1, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Call it an irony, or a quirk of fate. Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif, whose party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), had once denounced then President Asif Ali Zardari (2008-13) as “Mr. Ten Percent,” and agitated against his alleged corruption, is now all set to re-install the same person as the Head of […]

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Covid-19: Nations start lockdowns as Omicron spread to 89 countries

December 21, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the Omicron variant of Covid-19 virus threatening around 90 countries, marring the Christmas and year-end festivities, several nations reimposed partial or full lockdown on Tuesday as the pandemic completes two years. While the Netherlands imposed a tough nationwide lockdown from Sunday to rein in sharply multiplying infections, South Korea, […]

Defence

Roving Periscope: In a first, US dubs China India’s “aggressor”

October 21, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For the first time, the USA has officially dubbed China an “aggressor” against India along the Himalayan border, a development that might speed up the manifestation of an “Asian NATO”. Embroiled in internal problems like enfeebling economy and loss of face globally, China has been trying to divert its people’s attention […]

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Roving Periscope: Soviet Union’s glasnost to be China’s perestroika!

December 24, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The famous Murphy’s Law teaches us that ‘If anything can go wrong, it will.” Nothing elaborates it the way the dismantling of the Soviet Union in the late 1990s, or the ongoing rumblings in the People’s Republic of China do. When Mikhail Gorbachev launched his twin reforms—glasnost (political openness) and perestroika […]

Defence

Roving Periscope: Turkey loves to hate EU!

December 10, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: No country appears as split against itself as Turkey. Its overambitious President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has just accused the European Union (EU) of “never acting honestly” towards Ankara which, he claimed, is not concerned by any economic sanctions the Union might impose on it. But his own Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu […]

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 […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump may launch campaign in Jan to return in 2024!

December 3, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Seeing writings on the wall, despite his fresh claims of a “voter fraud” halting his second term, outgoing US President Donald Trump has promised America that he will return to the White House in 2024. The White House has begun preparation to welcome President-elect Joe Biden next month. Trump’s successor and […]

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Roving Periscope: Iran & co may face geopolitical ‘orchestra’ in 2021

November 24, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The no-longer-secret meeting of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia points to the emerging alliance against Iran, whose nuclear-armed neighbor Pakistan and friend North Korea may have to face not just music but a geopolitical orchestra […]

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Roving Periscope: POTUS polls from Watergate to Watermarks!

November 20, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Will Donald Trump have the last laugh? If so, what would be the fate of Joe Biden? If true, it may turn out as an even more sensational disclosure than Richard Nixon’s Watergate Scandal, and sink America’s hard-earned reputation as a model democratic nation worth emulation for the rest of the […]