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Broke, Pak may mortgage Islamabad’s largest park!

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: Financially broke, Pakistan is now considering a proposal to mortgage the largest park in the national capital of Islamabad to raise 500 billion Pakistani rupees (PKR). Media reports said the federal government of Pakistan has sought to mortgage the F-9 Park (Fatima Jinnah Park) in Islamabad to receive PKR 500 billion […]

COVID-19: With 17.5k deaths, Jan 20 deadliest day yet in 2021

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: Even as vaccination campaign is in progress across many countries, January 20 turned out to be the deadliest day in 2021, so far, when over 17,500 deaths were reported due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the world, indicating unpredictability of the virus, its strains, and impact. The January 20 toll beat […]

COVID-19: Covaxin 1st Indian vax to get peer-reviewed data

Virendra Pandit  Mumbai: Covaxin, India’s first indigenous vaccine against the global pandemic of COVID-19, has shown enhanced immune response without any serious side-effects in the volunteers enrolled for the Phase 1 trials, a study in the prestigious medical publication, The Lancet Infectious Disease Journal, has said. Covaxin, developed by Bharat Biotech International Ltd (BBIL) in […]

Roving Periscope: First Modi-Biden meet likely at G-7 Summit in June

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: The first in-person meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the new US President Joe Biden is likely during the Group-7 Summit, scheduled to be held at Cornwall in the United Kingdom from June 11 to 13. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson had recently invited Modi to the 46th Summit, in […]

Markets: Sensex crosses 50k, then tumbles to bleed investors

Mumbai: Thursday began on Dalal Street here with Sensex briefly crossing the historic 50,000-mark—to 50,184–on a euphoric note after the rise of world markets as the new US president Joe Biden took the oath a day before, and then took investors by surprise by diving 785 points, bleeding many of them. The day began with […]

Economy: RBI sees ‘glorious summer’ this year

Virendra Pandit  Mumbai: The Indian economy has come out of the pandemic crisis and with a strengthening recovery, the winter of discontent will be made glorious summer, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in an optimistic prediction. The central bank’s January bulletin, released on Wednesday, said the ambitious vaccination drive against the COVID-19 pandemic […]

Roving Periscope: With ‘footballs’ and ‘biscuits’, Biden must deliver now.

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: On Wednesday, when an unpredictable Donald Trump finally bid goodbye to the White House, without officially handing over the charge to his successor, President-elect Joe Biden, an extra vigilant Pentagon deactivated two of the most important codes the world has ever had. This subtle act involved the deactivation of two ‘nuclear […]

Trump may launch a new outfit—Patriot Party!

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: Outgoing US President Donald Trump is mulling launching a new political party of his own—Patriot Party—after his exit from the White House on Wednesday as his successor Joe Biden takes oath as the 46th President of the United States. He is reported to have discussed this possibility with this close associates, […]

Business: L&T arm wins Rs.5k cr transmission lines orders from B’desh

Mumbai: The power transmission and distribution business of Larsen  Toubro has won transmission lines orders worth about Rs.5,000 crore in Bangladesh, the company said on Wednesday. The scope of these packages involves the design, supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of extra high voltage transmission lines on a turnkey basis, according to a company release. In […]

Roving Periscope: On his last day in WH, Trump pardons Bannon, 142 others

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: Hours before leaving the White House the last time, outgoing US President Donald Trump pardoned former close associate and ex-chief strategist Steve Bannon, as part of a late flurry of clemency action benefiting 142 other people, including rap stars and former members of the US Congress. The pardons and commutations for […]
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