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PNB scam: ‘Choksi Indian citizen, misleading Dominican courts’, says CBI

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India informed the Dominican courts on Monday that fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi, an Indian citizen accused in the Rs.13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam, is ‘misleading’ the courts to stall his deportation to India. India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have formed a […]

Covid-19: With herd immunity in place, USFDA not giving new EUA, says Bharat Biotech

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: After the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) asking Bharat Biotech to provide more data for approval of Covaxin, the Hyderabad-based company has said that with herd immunity developed and successful mass vaccination, the US is no longer giving the emergency use approval (EUA) to any new vaccine. So far, Covaxin, […]

Mango diplomacy: US, China, Egypt, others return Islamabad’s seasonal gifts!

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: Instead of putting its chaotic house to order, Pakistan tried to enter the hearts of over 32 old and new friendly nations through their stomachs: most of them returned the seasonal gifts of mangoes Islamabad sent them! The United States, China, and several other countries have declined to accept mangoes that […]

PNB scam: Mehul Choksi “a flight risk”, says Dominica HC, denies bail

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: After a magistrate rejected the bail application filed by absconding diamantaire Mehul Choksi recently, the Dominica High Court he had moved to get one also denied him bail, remarking that he is “a flight risk”. This has paved the way for his eventual repatriation to India on whose request the Interpol […]

Covid-19: Delta variant may ‘take hold of Europe’, warns WHO

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: The United Kingdom (UK), which is preparing to phase out from June 14 to 21 the restrictions imposed as part of the lockdown, may have to rethink: the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) of the coronavirus is likely to assault the country soon. “Let us not make that mistake again,” a senior WHO […]

Roving Periscope: Is China bracing for Tiananmen Square 2.0?

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: In 1989, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) had brutally suppressed a massive movement launched by pro-democracy students in what became known as the Tiananmen Square massacres in Beijing. But will China be able to similarly crush another movement of dissatisfied students after they held their principal hostage for 30 years […]

PNB scam: “You, Mr. Mehul Chinubhai Choksi, are hereby declared a prohibited immigrant”, says Dominica

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: In calculated steps and almost declaring him a persona non grata (unwanted person), the two Caribbean island nations—Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica—appear pushing fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi back to India where he is the ‘most wanted’ since 2018. He is running out of options to stall his inevitable return to India, […]

Covid-19: India to get a share of 80 mn US vaccine doses through COVAX

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: Until March, India was exporting vaccines to nearly 70 countries under different categories as part of the global fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Now it will receive a share of the 80 million unused vaccine doses through the UN-based COVAX global vaccine-sharing program. By announcing to share oversupplied American vaccines with […]

Agriculture: Centre hikes MSP for kharif paddy by Rs.72 to Rs.1,940

New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday raised the minimum support price (MSP) of paddy marginally by Rs 72 per quintal to Rs 1,940 per quintal for the 2021-22 crop year, while the rates of some other Kharif crops were also hiked. The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. […]

Politics: “No point being in Congress,” says Jitin Prasad as he joins BJP

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: The Indian National Congress, led by interim President Sonia Gandhi and her two children, got a fresh jolt on Wednesday when Jitin Prasad, a prominent Brahmin leader from Uttar Pradesh, joined the ruling BJP ahead of crucial Assembly elections in India’s most-populated state in 2022. “I was associated with the Congress […]
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