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Hasina: Bangladesh asks India to extradite the deposed PM to Dhaka

December 23, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Under pressure from Islamist outfits, who now control the interim government led by “Chief Advisor” Muhammed Yunus, Bangladesh on Monday officially asked India to send back the deposed Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, who has been staying in the country since August. Dhaka-based International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued arrest […]

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Family-as-State: Now, Bashar’s British-born wife files for divorce in a Russian court!

December 23, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For a former medical practitioner Bashar al-Assad, the ophthalmologist-turned- Syrian dictator, it may be a double whammy. He not only lost power and pelf in Damascus two weeks ago, and fled to Russia for asylum, he may now lose even his family: his wife of 24 years has filed for […]

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Roving Periscope: ‘I, not Elon Musk, will be the POTUS,’ asserts Donald Trump!

December 23, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Who have the Americans elected as their 47th President? Donald Trump, of course, who was elected for a second non-consecutive term of four years (2025-28) in November and is now preparing to return to the White House on January 20, 2025. His assertion that he will start inauguration next month […]

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Russia’s 9/11: Towering infernos as Ukraine’s drones fly into Kazan buildings

December 21, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Even as Russians started preparing to welcome Christmas, US President-elect Donald Trump hoped for a ceasefire, and Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a ‘positive response’ to it, Ukraine allegedly shot off at least eight drones in rapid succession into Kazan City’s residential towers on Friday, setting some of them on […]

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26/11: The US may extradite Tahawwur Rana to India to face the law

December 20, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the US government urging the Supreme Court to dismiss a petition filed by Tahawwur Rana, a key mastermind convict in the November 26, 2008, terror attack in Mumbai, the likelihood of his extradition to India has brightened, the media reported on Friday. Rana, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin, […]

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Roving Periscope: Open to Ukraine talks, compromise with Trump, Putin says

December 20, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Already war-fatigued and with the universal law of diminishing returns making his own stay in power vulnerable, Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to climb down on Ukraine and make a ‘compromise’ after a potential meeting with Donald Trump, whose second non-consecutive term as the 47th US President will begin […]

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Remittances: India tops the world with a $129 billion inflow in 2024

December 19, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With an estimated inflow of remittances worth USD 129 billion in 2024, India has topped the world, the World Bank said on Thursday. The growth rate of remittances this year is estimated to be 5.8 percent, compared to 1.2 percent in 2023, the media reported. India was the topmost recipient […]

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Markets: Post-US Fed rate cuts, global, Indian stocks sink more than 1%

December 19, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the US Federal Reserve cutting its benchmark interest rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday, to a target range of 4.25 to 4.50 percent, several stocks in global markets sank on Thursday, with Sensex and Nifty shares losing 1.2 and 1.02 percent of their values in India. Amid the […]

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Ukraine: Uzbek youth held for killing top Russian general with a “scooter bomb”

December 18, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which will enter the third year in February 2025 sans a peace deal, Moscow detained an Uzbek youth suspect for allegedly killing a top Russian general using only a “scooter bomb,” at his home, the media reported on Wednesday. According to reports, Russia has detained […]

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Growth: Indian economy to grow 6.6% in FY26, says Ind-Ra

December 18, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Driven by fresh investments and likely easing interest rates, India will grow at a 6.6 percent rate in the next financial year, 2025-26, a leading rating agency said on Wednesday. The Indian economy has witnessed a cyclical growth slowdown in the past three quarters this year, which it expects to […]