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Global Indians: NRIs, including Bengalis, protest ‘genocide’ of Hindus in WB

May 10, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: On a day West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerji was finalizing the list of her acolytes to reward them with ministries, Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) staged demonstrations against her government across the USA and other countries, protesting against what they called ‘genocide of Hindus’ by the workers of the ruling Trinamool Congress […]

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Global Indians: Harris vows more US help to India to fight pandemic

May 8, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India is now at the heart of many in America. The entire United States government, and particularly its three-million-strong Indian-American community, is currently galvanized to help India cope with the devastating second wave of Covid-19. The community is also getting support from US Vice President Kamala Harris whose parents had an […]

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Covid-19:2: Medical journal ‘Lancet’ warns of a million deaths in India by Aug’21

May 8, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Prestigious British medical science journal Lancet has warned that India could see the death toll due to Covid-19 potentially climbing to one million by August 1, and advised the government to take immediate steps including rationalizing and implementing the “botched vaccination” speedily to control the pandemic. Referring to the possibility of […]

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Covid-19:2: Finance Ministry sees ‘downward risk’ in Q1FY22

May 7, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Union Finance Ministry on Friday said the second wave of Covid-19 has posed a downside risk to economic activity in the first quarter of 2021-22 (April-June 2021) but its impact is expected to be muted on the Indian economy unlike the first wave’s in 2020. In its monthly economic review […]

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Roving Periscope: After Trump, Islamabad fails to ‘seduce’ even Biden’s US!

May 7, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Six months ago, Pakistan was praying for the Inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th US President in January 2021 as his predecessor Donald Trump was seen as too close to India for Islamabad’s comfort. Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi hoped that a new President in Washington would help a […]

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Covid-19: ‘India’s fiscal response conservative, give Rs.5.5 lakh stimulus package’

May 6, 2021 virendra pandit 0

New Delhi: Terming as ‘conservative’ India’s fiscal response to the global pandemic of Covid-19, the Azim Premji University has urged the Centre to announce a fresh stimulus package worth Rs 5.5 lakh crore to deal with the crisis. Bold measures are required to emerge stronger from the crisis, said the report, ‘State of Working India […]

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Covid-19 shots: US nod to India, SA’s proposal for temp waiver of patents

May 6, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In what the WHO termed a “monumental moment”, the US has accepted India and South Africa’s October 2020 proposal at the WTO for a temporary waiver on vaccine patents, a far-reaching decision that could potentially prompt many countries to manufacture vaccines and accelerate the ongoing global vaccination program against the Covid-19 […]

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Technology: Google to have 20% staff remote-working, 60% hybrid

May 6, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: How the global pandemic of Covid-19 is changing human lifestyle and work culture? Search engine Google said on Thursday that it expects about 20% of its workforce to still work remotely after its offices reopen this fall, while some 60% will work a hybrid schedule, including about three days in the […]

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Covid-19: India accounts for world’s 46% infections, 25% deaths, says WHO

May 5, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Assaulted by a devastating second wave of Covid-19 for more than a month, India now accounts for nearly half of the pandemic cases and 25% of the deaths reported worldwide last week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday. On this day, the country’s coronavirus deaths rose by a record […]

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Covid-19: S&P reduces India’s GDP growth forecast in FY22 to 9.8%

May 5, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: S&P Global Ratings on Wednesday slashed India’s GDP growth forecast for the current financial year from 11 percent to 9.8 percent fearing that the fierce second Covid-19 wave may uproot the green-shoots of pandemic-battered recovery in the economy and credit conditions. The US-based rating agency had, in March, estimated an 11 […]