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UPI: India built the world’s best digital economy, says Nobel Laureate Spence

February 13, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Emphasizing that the world is experiencing a “kind of regime change in the global economy,” Nobel Laureate economist A. Michael Spence has hailed India for building the planet’s best digital economy and financial architecture. Noting that India is a major economy with the highest potential growth rate right now, he […]

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Roving Periscope: Pakistan Army tries to win the polls its selected politicians lost!

February 13, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The Pakistanis famously joke that their all-powerful army has never won a war and never lost an election! They are seeing it repeat once again. And in the Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, the headquarters of the Pakistan Army, the man the boots love to hate is laughing aloud! For, even […]

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Espionage case: Freed, Indian Navy veterans return home from Qatar

February 12, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Demonstrating the triumph of some deft diplomacy and business strategy adopted by India at the highest levels, seven of eight former Indian Navy officials, who were sentenced to death by a Qatari court on charges of espionage last year, returned home after being freed on Sunday. The Ministry of External […]

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UPI: India launches its digital payments system in Sri Lanka and Mauritius

February 12, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: India’s Unified Payment Interface (UPI) services were on Monday rolled out in neighboring Sri Lanka and Mauritius, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi describing it as linking historic ties with modern digital technology. India’s RuPay card services were also launched in Mauritius at a virtual ceremony attended by PM Modi, his […]

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Roving Periscope: Army-herded old goats gang up to keep Imran’s younger flock away from power

February 12, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Despite all the odds, former cricket star-turned-politician Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi has effectively turned the tables not only on the hitherto all-powerful Pakistani Army but also on the Old Guards in traditional political parties. For, even after remaining behind wars since August 2023, watching his political outfit’s near disintegration, and […]

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Adani Ports secures top position for its climate actions and environmental performance

February 12, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad, 11 February 2024: Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) has secured top position for its climate actions and environmental performance in assessments done by four global rating agencies. The CDP  assigned leadership band “A-“ to APSEZ, recognising the company’s efforts in implementing the current best practices to tackle climate change risks and […]

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Ahmedabad Airport Achieves 10 million Passenger Milestone

February 9, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad, February 09, 2024: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (SVPI) in Ahmedabad crossed a significant milestone, serving over 10 million passengers as of February 8, 2024, in the current financial year. This impressive achievement takes place 50-days earlier compared to the previous year when the 10 million mark was reached on March 29, 2023. Boosting […]

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Billionaire Adani Secures Ore for $1.2 Billion Copper Smelter

February 9, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s conglomerate has signed contracts to buy 1.6 million tons a year of copper concentrate for the world’s largest single-location smelter for the industrial metal. The first 500,000 tons of capacity at the $1.2 billion facility in Mundra in the western state of Gujarat is set to start operations next month, according […]

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Economy: FM lambasts UPA for ‘family first’ policies, leaving India in ‘dire straits’ by 2014

February 9, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: A day after tabling the White Paper in Parliament, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday lambasted the previous Congress-led UPA government for its mismanagement of the economy, saying the party put “family first” in all policies and left the country in “dire straits” by 2014, but it is now lecturing […]

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Ukraine: With the war against Russia entering its third year, Zelenskyy sacks ‘Iron General’

February 9, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Imagine a professional comedian, now a President, sacking a professional soldier, amid a war that is entering its third year in two weeks! Like changing the horse midstream. This is what happened in Ukraine where an allegedly insecure, even jealous, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy replaced the country’s popular ‘Iron General’, Valeriy […]

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