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Media: Trump to sue The NYT with a $15 bn lawsuit over Epstein reports

September 16, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Fuming over sustained media disclosures, US President Donald Trump on Monday said that he will file a USD 15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times in Florida for its reporting on his alleged ties to late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a post on his Truth Social platform, […]

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Nepal: Interim PM Sushila Karki inducts three ministers

September 15, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the Himalayan country tried to rebuild life disturbed by last week’s deaths and destruction, Nepal President Ramchandra Paudel on Monday administered the oath of office to three ministers inducted by newly appointed caretaker Prime Minister Sushila Karki into her cabinet. Karki, 73, the landlocked nation’s first woman PM, assumed […]

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Bilateral trade: US negotiator reaching India tonight; talks tomorrow

September 15, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With back-channel efforts underway, US trade negotiator Brenden Lynch will hold bilateral trade talks in New Delhi on Tuesday, the media reported. Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for South and Central Asia Brendan Lynch, who will arrive in India on Monday night, will continue talks on a Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) with […]

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Nepal, again: Fearing wipeout, political parties slam Parliament dissolution, fresh polls

September 13, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid media reports that the new interim government, led by former Supreme Court Chief Justice Sushila Karki, could retire and ban six former prime ministers from contesting elections for life, Nepal’s political parties, fearing irrelevance, have slammed President Ram Chandra Paudel’s announcement to dissolve Parliament and hold fresh elections on […]

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Nepal: President Paudel dissolves Parliament; announces fresh elections in March 2026

September 13, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after swearing in former Supreme Court Chief Justice Sushila Karki as the Interim Prime Minister, Nepal’s President Ramchandra Paudel late on Friday dissolved Parliament and announced fresh elections to be held on March 5, 2026, the media reported. After a week of chaos, the Himalayan country is slowly […]

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Roving Periscope: Nepal’s leadership crisis continues as Gen Z shows some sanity

September 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid a free-for-all since Monday’s uprising, led by Generation Z mobs, and allegedly infiltrated by foreign influencers, Nepal on Friday stared at Himalayan uncertainties as youngsters clashed with each other on who should now lead Kathmandu, and then hit the streets on Friday to clean up the mess they created […]

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Brazil: Trump’s ‘friend’ ex-President Bolsonaro gets 27-year jail for coup attempt

September 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Recently, US President Donald Trump clashed with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, arm-twisted BRICS, accused it of alleged de-dollarization moves, and did whatever he could to protect his ‘friend’ former President Jair Messias Bolsonaro from being convicted of a coup attempt. It makes Bolsonaro, infamous as “Brazil’s […]

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Trump tantrums: Now, the US to press G7 bloc to impose tariffs on India, China!

September 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After failing to impress upon the European Union (EU) immediately to impose higher tariffs against India, the US is trying to persuade the Group of Seven (G7) countries to levy higher import duties against New Delhi and Beijing, even as President Donald Trump and his sycophants continued their carrot-and-stick policy […]

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Nepal: After Monday’s uprising,’ Gen Z factions confused on the next move

September 11, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After toppling the Communist-led government within 48 hours on Tuesday, and then torching several national symbols, the confused Generation Z, still leaderless and clueless, is trying to come to terms with a stark reality: how to govern a poor, landlocked country that has no government, and where more than 13,000 […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump proposes, but Europe is reluctant to dispose!

September 11, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A year after America’s independence from Britain, Scottish poet Robert Burns famously wrote in 1786: “The best laid plans of mice and men / Go often awry.” US President Donald Trump’s multiple plans have also failed to take off at home and abroad, despite much brouhaha. His favourite weapons of […]