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Roving Periscope: “Oh Canada!”, Trump says the ‘golden age’ of America to begin

January 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Attempting China-like cartographic diplomacy, President-elect Donald Trump, just 12 days before his January 20 inauguration, published a ‘new map’ of America including Canada as the 51st state of the USA, setting the cat among the other pigeons—Mexico, the Panama Canal, and Greenland—he may annex during his upcoming four-years in the […]

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APSEZ Enters Top 10 List in 2024 S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment Rankings

January 8, 2025 revoi editor

Ahmedabad : Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. (APSEZ) was ranked among the Top 10 global transportation and transportation infrastructure companies in the 2024 S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA), with a score of 68(out of 100)—three points improvement over last year. APSEZ is now placed in the 97th percentile within the sector*, improving […]

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US Congressman challenges Biden administration’s decision to investigate Adani

January 8, 2025 revoi editor

Washington, Jan 8 : Challenging the decision of the Biden administration to investigate the activities of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, an influential Republican lawmaker has said such selective actions risk damaging critical alliances with key partners. In a strongly worded letter to US Attorney General Merrick B Garland, Congressman Lance Gooden, a member of the […]

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Roving Periscope: As Canada celebrates Trudeau exit, Trump ‘renews’ 51st state offer

January 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While many Canadians ‘celebrated’ the anticipated resignation of their highly unpopular Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 53, on Monday, President-elect Donald Trump renewed his offer to Canada to become the United States’ 51st state and enjoy prosperity and security, the media reported on Tuesday. Many people heaved a sigh of relief […]

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Economy: India’s GDP may grow 6.4% in FY25, says first advance estimates

January 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gives the finishing touches to the next fiscal year’s Union Budget (2025-26), to be tabled in Parliament in the coming Budget Session, the first economic survey for FY25 has projected a GDP growth of 6.4 percent in the current financial year, ending March 31, 2025. […]

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East Pakistan: Yunus-led Dhaka making a Nawaz out of Hasina!

January 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Remember how a certain Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, once-upon-a-time cricket-star-turned Prime Minister of Pakistan (2018-22), duly supported by the Army, thrust several cases against his predecessor—and now the de facto successor—Nawaz Sharif, forcing him into exile for years, until he returned to pay back the faded star and put him […]

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Markets: HMPV, Trump, and FIIs pull Indian stocks down by over 1.5%

January 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After a positive start to the New Year last week, Indian stocks plunged over 1 percent on Monday because of the rising concerns over the spread of another feared COVID-19-type pandemic, and also due to the potential global uncertainties after Donald Trump’s second-term beginning in the US on January 20, […]

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Roving Periscope: Biden cancels $15 bn steel bid as Japan is a “security risk!”

January 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Harry S. Truman, a Democrat, was the US President in 1945 when America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, forcing Japan to surrender and close the Second World War. Now, 80 years on, America still considers Japan a “security risk,”—although the US provides it the overall security cover—and another […]

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South Korea: Impeached President Yoon blocks a probe into his corruption

January 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the ongoing political high drama in a democratic South Korea, anti-corruption investigators failed to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after a nearly six-hour standoff with the presidential security guards, the media reported on Friday. The continuing crisis has paralyzed the economic powerhouse nation’s politics and witnessed two heads […]

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Terror: FBI names US Army veteran Shamsuddin Jabbar in New Orleans carnage

January 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A United States Army veteran, Shamsuddin Jabbar, suspected to have terror links, has been named as the key suspect in the New Orleans carnage on the eve of the New Year’ in which at least 15 people died and 35 were wounded, the media reported on Thursday. Shamsuddin Jabbar, 42, […]