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Sour grapes: Trump, 79, gasps; now downplays talk of Nobel Peace Prize

September 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After lamenting that, despite his ‘outstanding’ achievements to stop almost one war a month after returning to the White House in January 2025 for a second term, and emerging as a global butt of jokes, a downcast US President Donald Trump has started downplaying his quest for a Nobel Peace […]

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Hegemony: Putin blasts Trump for ‘colonial’ tactics against India, China

September 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Just two weeks after they met in Alaska, Russian President Vladimir Putin reprimanded his US counterpart Donald Trump for attempting to exert colonial-era pressure tactics on leaders of powerful economies like India and China, saying that is not the way to deal with the partners. Powerful economies like India and […]

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Logistics: India plans to invest USD 125 bn in 10 years to expand high-speed roads

September 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With its economy projected to become the world’s second-largest by 2038, India is planning to invest USD 125 billion (Rs. 11 trillion) to expand its high-speed road network fivefold within a decade, modernize infrastructure, and slash logistics costs, the media reported on Thursday. It will add 17,000 km of access-controlled […]

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Roving Periscope: To regain EU’s lost trust, Trump woos Poland

September 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid his tall claims to end the 42-month-long Ukraine war remaining hollow and Europe, for the first time since 1945, suspecting America’s intention of continued support to its security from Russia, Donald Trump has “reassured” Poland of continued US military presence in the European nation. Washington’s growing disinterest in European […]

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Indonesia: As President flew to China, angry women protest against profligacy

September 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Furious at their lawmakers’ profligacy and alleged police brutality, angry women brandishing brooms and holding placards took out a protest rally outside Parliament in Jakarta in the Muslim-majority Indonesia on Wednesday, demanding reform, while their President flew to China to attend a military parade. Hundreds of women, dressed in pink, […]

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Pakistan: With Munir, Shehbaz in China, suicide bombers kill 14, injure 35 in Quetta

September 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While Pakistan Army chief “Field Marshal” General Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in that order, are busy attending China’s Victory Day Parade and other sundry events during their six-day visit, and unprecedented floods are ravaging large parts of the broke country, unnamed terrorists killed at least 14 people […]

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Roving Periscope: China displays firepower—to friends, frenemies, and foes alike

September 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pakistan lost badly in India’s Operation Sindoor in May 2025 but continues to claim ‘victory’—so much so that its Army chief, General Asim Munir, promoted himself as “Field Marshal” and hung other sundry medals on his uniform after emerging from his bunker. Don’t be surprised, therefore, if Islamabad starts ‘celebrating’ […]

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Earthquake: Search on for survivors after 1,400 deaths in Afghanistan

September 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Taliban-controlled government said on Tuesday that a search operation is on to look for survivors of the Sunday night temblor that killed at least 1,400 and wounded over 3,000 in one of the deadliest earthquakes to hit Afghanistan in decades. The casualty count has mounted steadily since the 6.0-magnitude […]

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Roving Periscope: ‘To protect family’s businesses in Pak, Trump antagonized India,’ says Sullivan

September 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Accusing Donald Trump of pushing India into the Russia-China orbit, former US National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan has said America’s President has antagonized India to protect his family members’ business interests in Pakistan. The American brand is now in the toilet worldwide, he said. Trump jeopardized the USA’s carefully-cultivated […]

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Semicon India 2025: “We began late but nothing can stop us now,” says PM Modi

September 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday emphasized that although India started late in the field of semiconductors but nothing can stop it now. Addressing the inaugural session at Semicon India 2025, he expressed confidence that India is fast emerging from a back-end to a full-stack semiconductor nation, which will drive […]