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Roving Periscope: After H-1B visa fee hike, Britain and China woo global talents; NASSCOM cool

September 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With US President Donald Trump hiking the one-time H-1B visa fee to USD 100,000 for those seeking jobs, Britain and China have smelt an opportunity to attract global talents. But India’s NASSCOM said the visa fee hike will have only a marginal impact on Indian IT sector’s growth. According to […]

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H-1B visa: Fee hike will be America’s loss, India’s gain, says Kant

September 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Reacting to US President Donald Trump increasing the H-1B visa fee by 10-fold to USD 100,000 from September 21, India’s former NITI Aayog chief Amitabh Kant said on Saturday that the American move may turbocharge India’s growth while choking the US’s spirit of innovation. Kant highlighted that India’s finest doctors, […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump’s order may shrink US talent pool, and empower other countries!

September 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In his first remarks amid the uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump’s H-1B visa fee hike to USD 100,000, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday reiterated that “Our biggest enemy is the reliance on other countries.” The PM emphasised India’s need for self-reliance as President Trump increased the H-1B […]

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Bagram: The Taliban should decide on US return to the air base, says China

September 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid reports that the US is wooing the Taliban back into its fold and planning to re-establish its Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, to keep tabs on the Muslim-majority Xinjiang province of China and Central Asia, Beijing said Kabul should decide on this matter. China respects Afghanistan’s territorial integrity and […]

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Roving Periscope: Space, cyber warfare new battlefields, says CDS Chauhan

September 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan on Friday said that India is taking policy initiatives for the development of equipment for space and cyber warfare, the new battlefields of technology-driven warfare. Addressing the East Tech symposium in Ranchi, Jharkhand, he said that strategic selection of weapons was […]

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Roving Periscope: Now, Pak, S. Arabia ink “defence pact”—against Iran?

September 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Saudi Arabia and self-styled nuclear-armed Pakistan, which just lost heavily against India in Operation Sindoor, have signed a mutual defense pact that defines any attack on either nation as an attack on both. But the motive and target behind the pact remains unclear. Some are seeing it as a key […]

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Trade & tariffs: Solution to issues with US likely in eight to ten weeks, says CEA

September 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran on Thursday said that India and the US are expected to solve the tariff issues in the next eight to ten weeks, the media reported. Addressing an interactive session organised by Bharat Chamber of Commerce in Kolkata, he hinted at ongoing unofficial (Track II) […]

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Roving Periscope: Pakistan’s Dar admits India didn’t agree to Trump’s mediation

September 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For once, Pakistan, always in a denial mode, found itself on the same page as India! In a rare public admission, Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Muhammed Ishaq Dar has said that India never agreed to any third-party mediation on bilateral issues, directly undercutting US President Donald Trump’s […]

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Economy: GST reforms to inject Rs. 2 lakh crores in Indian economy, says FM

September 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said the Next Generation GST reforms, being rolled out on September 22, the first day of the Navratra Festival, will infuse Rs. 2 lakh crores into the Indian economy, leaving the people with more cash on hand, which would otherwise have gone to […]

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Trade talks: ‘India First’ to be focus of negotiations with the US, says Puri

September 16, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As trade negotiations between the US and India resumed in New Delhi on Tuesday, former diplomat and Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri asserted that “India First” policy will be the focus for any potential deal. As a fresh round of trade talks, leading to a […]