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Imran returns with 440 MT of Saudi rice, triggers controversy in Pakistan!

May 13, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: He had taken a high-level delegation with even higher expectations to get billions of dollars worth of trade and aid to repair Pakistan’s crippled economy. All that he returned with, however, was a paltry 440 metric tons of Saudi rice as charity to be distributed to Pakistan’s poor to help them […]

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Covid-19-2: “Not Indian”; variant B.1.617 in 44 countries, says WHO

May 12, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: On a day the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare took umbrage at sections of media identifying the coronavirus B.1.617 strain as “Indian”, the World Health Organization (WHO) said the variant has been found in 44 countries so far. The B.1.617 variant, first identified in India in 2020, has been found […]

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Nepali conundrum: Pro-China Oli down, not out yet as NC to stake claim to form govt

May 12, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the incumbent KP Sharma Oli losing a crucial trust vote in parliament, Nepal’s main Opposition party, Nepali Congress, has decided to stake a claim for the Prime Minister’s post, a day after the President called on political parties to form a new government by Thursday. The NC’s decision came on […]

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Roving Periscope: ‘India may see more waves, the second may continue until July’

May 12, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid global concerns on the virulent second wave of Covid-19 wreaking havoc in India, eminent virologist Dr. Shahid Jameel has said the climb down from coronavirus numbers in the current wave will be a long-drawn-out process than in the first, and will possibly run through July 2021. India could also see […]

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Covid-19:2: ‘India in crisis as it opened up prematurely’, says Dr. Fauci

May 12, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Dr. Anthony Fauci, who advised two US Presidents, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, on Covid-19, said on Tuesday that India is in “such dire straits” because it made the “incorrect assumption” that the pandemic’s threat was over and opened up prematurely. “Don’t ever underestimate the situation,” he warned. Crowds at public […]

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Covid-19: Moody’s cuts India’s FY22 GDP growth from 13.7% to 9.3%

May 11, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Global rating agency Moody’s on Tuesday cut India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) forecast for FY22 from an earlier projection of 13.7 percent to 9.3 percent now, in view of the reverses due to the second wave of Covid-19, but believes the pandemic’s long-term impact will be limited. It also ruled out […]

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Covid-19: Lower fuel demand forces India’s oil refiners to cut production

May 11, 2021 virendra pandit 0

New Delhi: With local lockdowns and ‘corona curfew’ clamped in several states, increased prices, and the resultant low demand for fuel, India’s state-owned oil refiners are reducing production as their storage capacity are saturating, media reported on Tuesday. India’s top state oil refiners are reducing processing runs and crude imports as the surging second wave […]

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Covid-19: WHO classifies Indian strain as a ‘variant of global concern’

May 11, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The World Health Organization has said the Indian strain of Covid-19 has become a ‘variant of concern at the global level.’ The UN health agency said on Monday that the B.1.617 variant of Covid-19, first found in India in October 2020, seemed to be transmitting more easily than the original version […]

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Covid-19: Sewa Intl spends $6m in 15 days, ships 250 oxygen concentrators to India

May 11, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Mukund Patel Houston, Texas (USA): Sewa International has spent more than USD 6 million in the last 15 days to procure lifesaving equipment such as oxygen concentrators, ventilators, BiPap, and CPAP machines as part of its ‘Help India Defeat Covid-19 Campaign’ running across the USA. The philanthropic organization shipped 250 Inogen oxygen concentrators, 1,000 oximeters, […]

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Covid-19: Rs.35,000 cr in BudgetFY-22 for vaccination, says govt.

May 10, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Refuting claims that the Centre has failed to provide funds for vaccination, the Finance Ministry on Monday said provisioning Rs 35,000 crore-expenditure for vaccines in the Union Budget for 2021-22, under the title ‘Transfers to States’, does in no way inhibit the central government from using the funds to buy Covid-19 […]