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Roving Periscope: Ailing Imran Khan’s supporters hit the streets again

February 18, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Fresh protests by Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi’s supporters rocked Pakistan on Wednesday, a week after a Supreme Court-appointed lawyer said the former Prime Minister, lodged in jail since August 2023, was going blind. Thousands of Imran’s supporters, demanding his shifting from jail to Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad for specialist […]

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AI Impact Summit: India to add $2 trillion in tech m-cap in next decade

February 18, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: India is now ready to add nearly USD 2 trillion in market capitalisation through technology over the next decade, creating huge companies, which will reshape the country’s economic landscape, leading venture capital firm Accel said on Wednesday. “India is going to add USD 2 trillion of m-cap using technology in […]

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Gautam Adani Announces Mega AI Investment to Fuel India’s Tech Sovereignty

February 17, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In one of the world’s largest integrated energy-and-compute investments, the Adani Group on Monday committed USD 100 billion to develop renewable-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready data centres by 2035. This is expected to catalyze an additional USD 150 billion across server manufacturing, advanced electrical infrastructure, sovereign cloud platforms and allied industries, creating a […]

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AI Summit: India eyeing $200 bn investments, says Vaishnaw

February 17, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday said India is set to attract more than USD 200 billion in investment commitments over the next two years across the five layers of the artificial intelligence (AI) stack. Speaking at a press briefing during the ongoing five-day India […]

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Roving Periscope: After Yunus’ venom, ultra-Islamist JeI, NCP create ruckus in B’desh

February 17, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: A day after the outgoing Mohammed Yunus, 86, spewed venom against New Delhi by raising the “Seven Sisters” (Northeast India) issue, thus sowing poison seeds for the elected incoming government, Bangladesh’s chief opposition Jamaat-e-Islami and its allies created a ruckus ahead of the Tarique Rahman-led government’s oath ceremony on Tuesday, […]

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Deportation: The US paid Rs. 1.11 cr each to dump 300 migrants in alien lands!

February 16, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: In a curious twist to this 2025 saga, the Donald Trump administration was reported to have spent more than USD 40 million (Rs 332 crore) to deport around 300 migrants and dump them into the alien lands they had no connection to. The US paid this money to foreign governments […]

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Curtain Raiser: India stands at the forefront of AI transformation, says PM Modi

February 16, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Ahead of the five-day “India AI Impact Summit 2026”, beginning Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India stands at the forefront of the artificial intelligence (AI) transformation and its strides in AI reflect both ambition and responsibility, the media reported. His remarks came on a day when he is set […]

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Roving Periscope: Ahead of Trump’s Feb 19 BoP meet, Israel moves to ‘annex’ West Bank

February 16, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Days before US President Donald Trump opens the first meeting of his Board of Peace (BoP) on Gaza affairs in Washington on February 19, Israel moved swiftly to what the Middle East called “systematizing dispossession” of Palestinians in the West Bank area, the media reported on Monday. Israel’s fresh move […]

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Nepal: Ahead of March 5 polls, Gyanendra ‘returns’; supporters demand monarchy back

February 13, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With thousands of his supporters chanting slogans for the restoration of monarchy, Nepal’s former King Gyanendra landed at the Kathmandu airport on Friday, ahead of the March 5 parliamentary election in the Himalayan country. “We want King Gyanendra back to save our nation,” the loyalists chanted, carrying placards as the […]

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Roving Periscope: After 3 years, India to export 3 mt of wheat, wheat products, plus 0.5 mt of sugar

February 13, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Lifting a three-year-long ban, India on Friday approved the export of 2.5 million tonnes (mt) of wheat along with an additional 0.5 mt of wheat products, and 0.5 mt of sugar, the media, quoting officials, reported. The ban on wheat product exports was lifted a few months ago. The government […]

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