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Roving Periscope: Trump’s ‘BBB’ wins; crises ahead as national debt to mount to $40 trillion

July 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For once, he can sleep in peace. After re-entering the White House on January 20, President Doland Trump—after several ups and downs, and twists and U-turns—tasted his first legialstive victory in the US Congress on Friday when the House of Representatives also passed, though with a thin majority, his controversial […]

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World’s biggest climate fund ramps up investment plans

July 4, 2025 revoi editor

The world’s biggest multilateral climate fund said it will make its largest-ever series of investments and speed up dealmaking as it looks to help poorer nations respond to global warming. The Green Climate Fund’s plan to release about $1.2 billion for 17 projects mostly in Asia and Africa follows approval by shareholders including the United […]

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Indian stock market opens marginally higher, Nifty above 25,400

July 4, 2025 revoi editor

The domestic benchmark indices opened marginally higher on Friday amid mixed global cues, with early buying seen in the IT, PSU bank and financial services sectors. At around 9:34 am, the Sensex was trading 32.52 points, or 0.04 per cent, higher at 83,271.99, while the Nifty added 3.45 points, or 0.01 per cent, to reach […]

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The Dalai Lama: Only he can choose his successor, insists India

July 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after China tried to impose its authority over the selection of the next Dalai Lama, India has insisted that only the Buddhist spiritual leader and the religious conventions he established can do so, the media reported. New Delhi has made its position unequivocal on the question of the […]

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Roving Periscope: Importing farm products key issue in US-India tariff talks

July 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In April, President Donald Trump paused his reciprocal tariffs on some 100 countries for three months, ending July 9. Several countries have since been racing against time to strike a favourable trade and tariff deal with America, even as Trump has just announced take on Japan! While he imposed as […]

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RBI issues advisory to banks for integration of DoT’s Financial Fraud Risk Indicator

July 3, 2025 revoi editor

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) welcomes the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) advisory issued on June 30, directing all Scheduled Commercial Banks, Small Finance Banks, Payments Banks and Co-operative Banks to integrate the Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) developed by DoT into their systems. This major step is expected to strengthen efforts to curb cyber-enabled […]

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Indian stock market opens higher, Sensex above 83,400

July 3, 2025 revoi editor

The Indian benchmark indices opened higher on Thursday amid positive global cues, with buying seen in the IT, pharma, and auto sectors in early trade. At around 9:25 am, the Sensex was trading 68.28 points, or 0.08 per cent, higher at 83,477.97, while the Nifty added 19.30 points, or 0.08 per cent, to reach 25,472.70. […]

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India, US to sign new 10-year Defence Framework this year

July 3, 2025 revoi editor

India and the United States have agreed to sign a new 10-year US-India Defence Framework by the end of this year, US Senior Defence Spokesperson Colonel Chris Devine has said. According to a statement from the Pentagon, US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth and India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh agreed during a phone conversation on […]

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The Nayak moment: Thailand gets a new PM–for just one day!

July 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the 2001 Hindi movie “Nayak: The Real Hero,” actor Anil Kapoor, playing the role of a TV cameraman Shivaji Rao, becomes the Chief Minister for a day, in place of the incumbent played by Amrish Puri. Thailand’s politics has just delivered a Nayak-like moment as, amid a political upheaval, […]

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The Dalai Lama: China objects to his successor, says will appoint its own

July 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet and took refuge in India in the late 1959s, is on course of naming his successor, to the chagrin of China which annexed Tibet some six decades ago, claimed its “approval” was necessary. According to Tibetans, Tenzin Gyatso, the present Dalai Lama, is the […]