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Nobel Prizes 2020: Peace award to WFP, Literature to Gluck

New Delhi: The World Food Programme (WFP), a United Nations body, has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Peace while American poet Louise Gluck will get this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. It was announced on Friday that the WFP has been selected for the prestigious award for feeding millions of people from Yemen […]

Roving Periscope: S. Arabia may ‘excommunicate’ Turkey from Islam!

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: Something unprecedented is likely to happen soon on the Muslim world’s political chessboard: Saudi Arabia may ‘excommunicate’ Turkey from Islam, making it the first country to be declared an apostate in the last 14 centuries. The Saudis have never forgotten how the forerunner of modern Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, had executed […]

Economy: WB praises India on Covid-19, says GDP may slump by 9.6% in FY21

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amidst India battling on several challenging fronts—Covid-19, China, ongoing financial restricting, economic reforms et al–the World Bank has predicted a contraction of Gross National Product (GDP) by 9.6 percent in fiscal 2020-21, even as it saw a muted recovery. But what India has done within its limited resources and fiscal space […]

Pakistan on edge: FIR against PoK’s ‘PM’ Farooq Haider Khan

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: Amid intense speculations that India could reclaim Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Islamabad plotting to annex PoK soon, the Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi’s government has lodged an FIR against the “Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)”, Farooq Haider Khan, charging him with “conspiring” against the country. According to media reports, Farooq […]

Nobel in Chemistry: Two win the 2020 Prize for work on genome

New Delhi: French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American researcher Jennifer A. Doudna have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a method of genome editing likened to “molecular scissors” that offer the promise of one day curing genetic diseases. Announcing this on Wednesday in Stockholm, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said: “There […]

Shaheen Bagh: SC against indefinite occupation of public places for protests

New Delhi: The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, said that public places cannot be allowed to be occupied indefinitely by protesters, who could be allowed only in designated areas. The observation came in relation to Shaheen Bagh in the national capital which was occupied for several weeks by those who protested against the implementation of the […]

China@UN: 39 nations pillory Dragon on Covid-19, Xinjiang, Tibet, HK

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Increasingly isolated globally on various counts, dozens of countries, including the West, pilloried authoritarian China at the United Nations on Tuesday, criticized Beijing on different issues including its dubious role in the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, and brutal suppression of human rights in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong. In particular, […]

Global Indians: Why POTUS Trump is ‘confident’ of a second term?

Virendra Pandit  Many Indians, including the three million Indian-Americans, find it rather difficult to understand the nitty-gritty of the US Presidential election, which is very different from the General Elections in India. Being generally highly-educated, prosperous, and professionally successful, the Indian-Americans have emerged as one of the most influential people in the USA. Some even […]

Hepatitis C: Two Americans, one British share Nobel for Medicine

New Delhi: Amid the global gloom over the Covid-19 pandemic, came good news on Monday in the field of medicine: Two Americans, Harvey J Alter, and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton, have been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for 2020 for their discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. […]

Roving Periscope: India, Israel—and Turkey—turning full circle!

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: “Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all,” American poet H. W. Longfellow once wrote famously. This is what is happening in contemporary India, Israel, and Turkey. They are all fighting ancient and medieval battles with […]
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