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Fintech: India attracted $31 bn in 10 years; needs more cybersecurity, says PM Modi

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said India’s robust financial technology (fintech) sector has attracted nearly USD 31 billion of investment in the last 10 years and more is expected, as he asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to enhance cyber security and digital literary to effectively combat cyber frauds. […]

Roving Periscope: With a Kashmir rider, Pak invites PM Modi for SCO Summit in October

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As expected, Pakistan has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with a Kashmir rider, to attend the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in Islamabad scheduled for October 2024. The SCO Summit will take place soon after the ongoing Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, to be from September 18 to October […]

East Pakistan ‘reborn’: Yunus govt apes Sharif’s; hunts down Hasina, top Awami leaders

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nobel Peace Laureate Mohammed Yunus-led interim government in Bangladesh (erstwhile East Pakistan) is no different from the Mohammed Shehbaz Sharif-led government in Pakistan: both are controlled by militant Islamists, have imposed dozens of cases against their democratically-elected and toppled former prime ministers and hunting down their respective parties. The way Islamabad […]

The Maldives: Muizzu claims a “financial coup;” Opposition debunks it

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Bangladesh witnessed a “coup” in July, barely seven months after parliamentary polls returned Sheikh Hasina Wajed to power. Now, India’s other neighbor, the Maldives, may also witness political instability just 10 months after its general elections. For, the Maldives’ pro-China President Mohamed Muizzu, elected in November 2023 on an anti-India plank, […]

Roving Periscope: Is peace ‘breaking out’ between Russia and Ukraine?

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It’s how a great power play is unfolding in our century. More than 900 days after the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine started on February 24, 2022, some indications suggest that the two war-fatigued neighbors may be looking for an honorable exit route to smoke the peace pipe. Prime Minister Narendra […]

Roving Periscope: Md Yunus faces “mountain-like challenges” as Muslims grab more Hindu properties

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nearly 20 days after taking charge as the Chief Advisor to the Interim Bangladesh Government, Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus, 84, is discovering “mountain-like challenges” he is facing, and urged the restive people to observe patience. Few may, however, be listening to his fervent appeals. For, students are clashing with para-military […]

Pakistan: Baloch terrorists identify, kill 31 Punjabi passengers, torch their vehicles

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pakistan is now getting a taste of its own ‘medicines.’ It had trained terrorists to identify and selectively kill the people in Punjab, and Jammu and Kashmir since the 1980s. That’s what the Baloch terrorists are doing now. Baloch terrorists identified and killed at least 31 Punjabi people in two separate […]

The next revolution: RBI to launch an Unified Lending Interface

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After the spectacular success of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in India and some other countries, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is set to launch a Unified Lending Interface (ULI) to transform the South Asian country’s lending space. “Just like UPI transformed the payments ecosystem, we expect ULI will play […]

Ukraine: If the world stops buying its oil, Russia to face challenges, says Zelenskyy

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: If the world, including India, stops buying its subsidized oil, Russia will face major economic challenges, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday. According to the media reports, during his bilateral talks with visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Zelenskyy said, Putin has nothing except for oil, and his main currency […]

Roving Periscope: “Extremely serious consequences if you elect Trump,” Harris warns US voters

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Democratic Party’s new candidate, Kamala Harris, 59, has warned the American voters against electing her Republican rival Donald Trump as it could lead to “extremely serious consequences.” In her Thursday night acceptance speech, she took forward President Joe Biden’s earlier attempt, wherein he framed voters’ choice in November to dark […]
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