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Roving Periscope: Imran-Islamist tie-up forces the Pak Army to push the Sharifs-Bhuttos into an embrace

February 21, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Panicked over a jailed former cricket star walking away with the prized terror “assets” it nurtured over the last four decades, the manipulative Pakistani Army, whose authority is being challenged for the first time since 1947, has pushed the two unwilling political dynasts—the Bhuttos and the Sharifs—into an uneasy embrace […]

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Technology: British PM Sunak faces embarrasment over the use of mobile phones in classrooms!

February 20, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s attempt to ban the use of mobile phones in classrooms may have backfired, the media reported on Tuesday. He found himself at the center of ridicule and criticism after he shared a video on social media promoting the ban on mobile phones in schools. His […]

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Roving Periscope: In Russia, the enemies’ partners also hog the limelight!

February 20, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: As Russia completes two years of Ukraine invasion on February 24, its President Vladimir Putin’s latest ‘girlfriend’ is hogging all the limelight.  Another woman, the widow of his trenchant critic Alexei Navalny, who died last week, is also making headlines. The media reported that President Putin, 71, has grown close […]

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Investments: Japan to invest Rs.12,800 crore in various projects

February 20, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Japan will invest Rs. 12,800 crores for nine projects in various sectors in India, the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday. An agreement to this effect was signed between Vikas Sheel, Additional Secretary of Economic Affairs, and Suzuki Hiroshi, Ambassador of Japan to India. The Japanese government has committed a loan […]

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Pakistan: Political-economic uncertainty grips a broke Islamabad over the next govt

February 19, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Even a week after the “final results” of the fractured outcome of the February 8 elections, nobody knows yet who will be the next Prime Minister of Pakistan. Not that there aren’t any hopefuls. There are many, but, given the slippery ground underneath, none wants to step on it! The […]

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Roving Periscope: The Tatas’ market cap is more than Pakistan’s economy!

February 19, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Facing bankruptcy and dependency on foreign doles and repeated loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for years, Pakistan’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is now less than India’s Tata Group’s combined market capitalization! The Tata Group’s overall market capitalization is around USD 365 billion, or more than INR 30 trillion, […]

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Economy: India 3rd largest digitalized country worldwide, says study

February 17, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: In terms of economy, India is the third largest digitalized country in the world. India is only behind the United States of America (USA) and China, according to a recent study released on Friday by a Delhi-based think tank. According to the State of India’s Digital Economy Report, 2024, released […]

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Roving Periscope: As Imran fields Omar Ayub, the Sharif-Bhutto combine panics in Pakistan

February 17, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: With jailed former Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi suddenly fielding former minister Omar Ayub Khan, grandson of ex-dictator “Field Marshal” Ayub Khan, as his prime ministerial candidate, the Sharif-Bhutto alliance has panicked and trying to poach into the former cricket star’s group of ‘independent’ winners. Meanwhile, the media reported […]

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Enemy No. 1: Alexei Navalny, President Putin’s worst critic, dies in Russian jail

February 16, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Prominent Russian leader Alexei Navalny, who was in jail since January 2021 because of his trenchant opposition to President Vladimir Putin, died on Friday, the media reported. His death came a month before the 71-year-old President Putin’s “election” for the fifth term. Russia is scheduled to go to the polls […]

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Roving Periscope: After 4 months, IDF arrests 20 Hamas terrorists from Gaza hospital

February 16, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: After nearly 30,000 deaths in the last four months of the ongoing Gaza War, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Friday claimed they have arrested from a Gaza hospital more than 20 Hamas terror suspects involved in the October 7 attack on the Jewish state. “The troops located weapons inside […]

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