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Roving Periscope: With SAARC defunct and BIMSTEC weakened, India battles against ‘frenemies’

September 25, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The common thread that now networks most member-states of the so-called South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is their anti-India stance. They also know that New Delhi could be blackmailed to cough up financial and other assistance lest it lose whatever goodwill remains. Founded with much fanfare in 1985 […]

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Gautam Adani discusses aircraft services partnership with Bombardier CEO

September 25, 2024 revoi editor

New Delhi, Sep 25 : Billionaire Gautam Adani met Bombardier chief executive Eric Martel to discuss partnership in aircraft services and the defence sector. Adani’s ports-to-energy conglomerate operates seven airports in the country, while Bombardier is a Canadian business jet manufacturer. https://x.com/gautam_adani/status/1838661062885020127 “Powering India’s aviation growth! Had a great discussion with @Bombardier CEO ?ric Martel […]

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Asia Power Index: Replacing Japan, India is third in Asia

September 25, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Pipping Japan, India now ranks third in the Annual Asia Power Index, according to an Australian think tank. It has also underlined that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership has garnered greater international recognition. The index has cited economic growth, future potential, and diplomatic influence as key factors for India’s rise, […]

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Sri Lanka: President Dissanakaye appoints third woman PM of the island nation

September 24, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Sri Lanka’s new pro-China Marxist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who said his country doesn’t want to be sandwiched between India and China, on Tuesday appointed a woman as the next Prime Minister, Harini Amarasuriya, ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections. She is the 16th PM of the island nation and […]

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Ukraine: PM Modi meets Zelenskyy, reiterates a peaceful resolution to Russia war

September 24, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a third time in as many months, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has backed a peaceful resolution of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, which started on February 24, 2022, the media reported on Tuesday. PM Modi, who is in New York on the last leg of […]

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Adani Energy Solutions and Adani Green Energy join the Utilities for Net Zero Alliance to aid India’s decarbonization march

September 24, 2024 revoi editor

Ahmedabad, 24 September 2024: Adani Green Energy Ltd. (AGEL), India’s largest renewable energy company, and Adani Energy Solutions Ltd. (AESL), India’s largest private transmission and distribution company, both part of the globally diversified Adani portfolio, today announced that they have joined the Utilities for Net Zero Alliance (UNEZA). UNEZA is an international platform for enhancing […]

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Roving Periscope: Over 900 Kuki infiltrators from Myanmar may reignite the Christian militancy in the Northeast

September 23, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Four months after the then Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed hinted at a ‘Western’ conspiracy to potentially cobble together a new Christian nation from the adjoining areas of Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar in the Northeastern region, her fears may be coming true with the reported infiltration of over 900 heavily-armed […]

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Semiconductors: President Biden, and PM Modi announce plans for a new plant in India

September 23, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The USA and India will work together on setting up a semiconductor fabrication plant in the South Asian nation, giving a boost to visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to bolster chip manufacturing in the country. The proposed plant will make infrared, gallium nitride, and silicon-carbide semiconductors, according to a White […]

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Adani Total Gas Secures Largest Global Financing in the City Gas Distribution Business

September 20, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad, 20 September 2024: Global lenders have provided financing to India’s leading City Gas Distribution (CGD) company, Adani Total Gas Ltd (ATGL). ATGL has entered into an overall financing framework which enables ATGL to secure future funding based on its business plan. The maiden financing of USD 375 million executed with international lenders include an […]

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Roving Periscope: GTRI junks Trump’s claims, says India no “tariff abuser”

September 20, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: On the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled US visit from September 21 to 23—where Donald Trump says he will meet the Indian leader, a “fantastic man”—a top research body has refuted the former President’s claims that India is a “tariff abuser.” Earlier this week, while campaigning in Michigan for […]

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