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Education: Foreign student arrivals to the US plunge 46% as visa woes mount

August 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the Trump administration’s controversial policies wreaking havoc within the US and without, the number of visitors to America arriving on student visas plunged sharply in July, falling year-on-year for a fourth straight month, the media reported on Tuesday. The declines were most pronounced from Asia, the largest international education […]

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Ukraine: No breakthrough, yet—Trump proposes, but Putin unwilling to dispose!

August 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It wasn’t unexpected, after all, given what happened in Alaska on August 15. US President Donald Trump returned to the White House, delighted after meeting his ‘old friend,’ Russian President Vladimir Putin. And Putin—some claimed it was one of his multiple body doubles!—also returned home without yielding an inch and, […]

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Roving Periscope: China smiles; ready to provide rare earths, fertilizers to India

August 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As India told the visiting Chinese Foreign Minister that differences must not become disputes, Beijing has agreed to address New Delhi’s requirements for rare earths, fertilizers, and tunnel-boring machines, the media reported on Tuesday. Minister for External Affairs S. Jaishankar, who led the Indian team to discuss various bilateral issues […]

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China: FM Wang’s Delhi visit may advance key bilateral agreements

August 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: China on Monday said its Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s two-day visit to India, beginning Monday, was aimed at working with New Delhi to deliver on important understandings reached between the leaders of the two sides and decisions taken during the previous round of border talks. Wang is on a visit […]

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Weapons Today Are Algorithms, Not Guns: Gautam Adani

August 18, 2025 revoi editor

he wars nowadays are often invisible and technology-driven, industrialist Gautam Adani said on Monday evening, asserting that algorithms are today’s weapons and not guns. Our ability to prepare for these wars will decide the country’s future, the chairman of Adani Group said, highlighting the need to become self-reliant in all sectors. “From conventional wars to […]

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Roving Periscope: On Ukraine, Trump may face Alaska-type fiasco in Washinton, too!

August 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With President Donald Trump ‘directing’ Ukraine to give up on its quest for a NATO membership, or retrieving Crimea from Russia, ahead of the visits of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a European delegation, there is little hope of any breakthrough on the Ukraine war imbroglio. President Zelenskyy and his European […]

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Myanmar: After the bloody coup in 2021, military junta to hold phased elections from Dec 28

August 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nearly five years after it toppled a democratically-elected government, China-supported Myanmar’s military junta, fighting a long civil war, on Monday announced the first phase of general elections to begin on December 28 which, however, critics have already derided as a sham, the media reported. The National League for Democracy, led […]

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Ukraine: India hails Trump-Putin Summit, says efforts “highly commendable”

August 16, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India on Saturday applauded the Summit meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, held in Alaska, and called their efforts towards making peace in Ukraine “highly commendable.” In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said, “India welcomes the Summit meeting in Alaska between US […]

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Roving Periscope: No ceasefire, no deal in Alaska, but ‘great progress’; “Next time in Moscow!”

August 16, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It wasn’t quite unexpected. After preaching fire and brimstone, US President Donald Trump met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at Anchorage, Alaska, for three long hours on Friday. The self-appointed, lifelong dealmaker could reach no deal at all, not even a ceasefire in Ukraine—indeed, his ‘peace talks’ with Putin had […]

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Roving Periscope: India readying for the Aug 25 round of US trade negotiations

August 14, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much anticipated address from the ramparts of the Red Fort in New Delhi, marking the 78th Independence Day, India on Thursday asserted that it remains “fully engaged” with the US on trade negotiations, the media reported. A US trade delegation is scheduled to […]