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What ‘s Up? ‘Withdraw new policy, answer 14 questions’, says India

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: India has directed troubled instant messenger WhatsApp, already facing rough weather in its largest global market, to withdraw its new privacy policy, saying the Facebook-owned messaging platform’s proposed changes “make invasive and precise inferences about users”. In a strongly-worded letter to WhatsApp, India said the Indians should be properly respected and […]

COVID-19: ‘Please don’t take Covaxin if you have…’ warns Bharat Biotech

Virendra Pandit  Mumbai: Two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the world’s largest vaccination drive against COVID-19 on January 16, India’s indigenous coronavirus vaccine-maker Bharat Biotech International Ltd (BBIL) has warned the people not to get the Covaxin shot if they have a set of medical conditions so as to avoid health complications. More […]

COVID-19: ‘New British variant to dominate the US in 2021’

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: Two days before President-elect Joe Biden takes oath as the 46th US President, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned America that a new, more transmissible variant of the coronavirus, first discovered in the United Kingdom recently, could become the dominant circulating strain in the US by March […]

Digitization forces China’s 1.2 bn people adopt only 100 surnames!

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” William Shakespeare wrote in Romeo and Juliet five centuries ago. But even The Bard of Avon’s head would probably roll in 2021 if he found that China’s 1.37 billion people share only 6,000 […]

Srinagar celebrates Biden’s appointment of Sameera Fazili

New Delhi: Celebrations broke out at Srinagar in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday with the appointment of Indian-American Sameera Fazili by President-elect Joe Biden to a key White House position related to the American economy. The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris team will be inaugurated on January 20. Fazili will work as Deputy […]

Malaysia ‘impounds’ PIA Boeing 777 for non-payment of $14 mn

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For the first time in a century of civil aviation, Malaysia ‘impounded’ a Boeing 777 aircraft of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Friday for the non-payment of USD 14 million as lease dues. Officials seized the PIA plane a day after a local Kuala Lumpur court ordered the seizure over the […]

Roving Periscope: China commits ‘genocide’ of Uyghur Muslims, says US

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: Firing on all cylinders against the People’s Republic of China (PRC), America has said Beijing has possibly committed “genocide” in its treatment of Uyghurs and other minority Muslims in its restive western province of Xinjiang. A bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), set up by the U.S. Congress, said new evidence […]

Trump bans Chinese officials, 9 firms, as tycoons lose billions

Virendra Pandit  Mumbai: Barely six days before he lays down the office, outgoing US President Donald Trump took another swipe at China and its biggest firms, imposing sanctions on officials and companies for alleged misdeeds in the South China Sea and thrust an investment ban on nine more Chinese firms, including Xiaomi. The move is […]

Economy: India recovering, to clock 11% GDP growth in FY22, says Fitch

New Delhi: India’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is expected to expand by 11 percent in the financial year 2021-22 after falling by 9.4 percent in the current fiscal as the recovery phase continues, supported by the rollout of vaccines in the upcoming days, Fitch Ratings, one of the three biggest credit rating agencies in the […]

Technology: After planning for Mars, Musk turns to India for EV biz

Virendra Pandit  Mumbai: Elon Musk, the world’s latest richest man (net worth: USD 150 billion), is planning to take an unmanned SpaceX Mission to Mars in 2024 and colonize the Red Planet by 2050. Not many people, however, knew him in India until Monday. Musk is the CEO of Tesla, Inc. On Tuesday, his American […]
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