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Environment: India ninth globally in total forest area, says FAO

October 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With large-scale afforestation and community-led forest protection efforts, India has climbed to the ninth spot globally in total forest area and retained its third rank in annual forest area gain, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said. In this respect, India follows Australia, the Democratic Republic of the […]

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US Visas: New H-1B rules won’t apply to existing visa holders, including students

October 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The US has announced that the new rules of H-1B visas, such as visa fee of USD 100,000, will not apply to the existing visa holders. This new clarification, issued by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on applicability of the recently-announced H-1B fee, could give hope to […]

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GST Bachat Utsav: Govt monitoring to ensure benefits reach consumers, says FM

October 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the government is monitoring to ensure that benefits of the recent GST reforms reach consumers in the form of reduced prices of items they purchase. Addressing a press conference on GST Bachat Utsav, she said the government has been monitoring price cuts in […]

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Indo-US trade: Negotiations for the BTA underway in a “cordial atmosphere”, says Goyal

October 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal on Saturday said negotiations between India and the US are continuing in a “cordial atmosphere” to finalize a bilateral trade agreement (BTA). Addressing a press conference, however, he refrained from giving a timeframe for the ‘good news’ about the signing of the […]

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The Durand War: 7 Pak troops die in suicide bomber’s attack on military camp

October 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Hours before the tenuous 48-hour ceasefire ended on Friday afternoon, a suicide bomber’s attack on a Pakistani military camp in Northern Waziristan, close to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, reportedly killed seven soldiers and wounded 13 others. The attack happened ahead of the meeting of representatives of Islamabad and Kabul in Doha […]

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China-US trade war: IMF warns of “significant risks” to global growth

October 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned of “significant downside risks” to global growth because of renewed trade-and-tariff frictions between the US and China, the world’s two largest economies. After months of tentative stability in US-China relations, tensions flared in recent weeks when Washington expanded technology restrictions and proposed tariffs […]

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Roving Periscope: After Pakistan, S. Arabia may ink defence pact with the US

October 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After signing a mutual defence pact with Pakistan in September—mainly against Iran—Saudi Arabia is re-exploring a pact with the US as well. During the recent Israel-Iran conflict, in which the US bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities, Tehran had fired missiles at Qatar which has a defence pact with the US. Ahead […]

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Defence: India to make domestic production 100%, says Rajnath Singh

October 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said India is looking at taking domestic defence production to 100 percent as dependence on foreign military supplies creates “strategic vulnerability.” After inaugurating a third production line of Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)-Mk1A and a second manufacturing facility of trainer jet HTT-40 in Nashik, […]

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Roving Periscope: In a 1971 Dhaka repeat, Taliban hang Pak soldiers’ pants in Afghanistan!

October 16, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In 1971, when nearly 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered before the Indian Army in Dhaka, many of them were photographed squatting without their trousers, and some Bangladesh Mukti Bahini members hung their pants publicly. Cut to 2025. As Pakistan claimed on Wednesday that it agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire as ‘requested’ […]

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Energy: India ‘rejects’ Trump’s claims on stopping Russian oil import

October 16, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Hours after US President Donald Trump claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had assured him of cutting the procurement of Russian crude oil, India on Thursday said that New Delhi is broad-basing and diversifying the sourcing of petroleum products to meet market conditions. India prioritises its consumer in an energy-sourcing scenario, […]