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Roving Periscope: India bargains hard; Trump extends tariff deal deadline to Aug 1

July 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With India bargaining hard and declaring that any trade and tariff deal with the US—indeed any country—will depend on protecting national interest, President Donald Trump, who was hoping to ink a mini-agreement or interim trade deal, has extended the reciprocal tariff deadline to August 1. Simultaneously, however, he imposed 25 […]

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China: Is ‘President-for-life’ Xi Jinping on his way out?

July 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: President Xi Jinping, who has helmed China since 2014, was ‘elected for life’ in 2023, and has been ‘missing’ for weeks, may step down by the end of 2025, the media reported on Monday, after weeks of social media speculation that he is ready to share power, or may have […]

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BRICS Summit: India leads it; Trump threatens “anti-Americans” with 10% extra tariff

July 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As the just-concluded 17th BRICS Summit at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, tried to navigate delicate geopolitical scenario, in the absence of the Russian and Chinese Presidents, India became the focal point of the event which condemned the Pahalgam massacre, and passed several resolutions, but a livid US President Donald Trump […]

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Roving Periscope: “Ridiculous…won’t work,” says Trump on Musk’s political outfit

July 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Mocking his friend-turned-foe Elon Musk’s potential political outfit, “The America Party” (TAP), US President Donald Trump on Sunday said it was “ridiculous”, and “won’t work.” Multibillionaire and Tesla CEO Musk, who shifted from the Democrats to support the Republican presidential candidate and donated millions for Trump’s campaign in 2024, was […]

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Afghanistan: Taliban no longer on terror list; Russia first to recognize its regime

July 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The wheel of history has turned the full circle. The Taliban—meaning the “Islamist students’ organization”—was born in the early 1990s primarily against the Soviet Union, with support from the US and Pakistan. After losing thousands of Russian soldiers in the nine-year-long war, the then USSR exited Afghanistan in February 1989, […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump’s ‘BBB’ wins; crises ahead as national debt to mount to $40 trillion

July 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: For once, he can sleep in peace. After re-entering the White House on January 20, President Doland Trump—after several ups and downs, and twists and U-turns—tasted his first legialstive victory in the US Congress on Friday when the House of Representatives also passed, though with a thin majority, his controversial […]

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The Dalai Lama: Only he can choose his successor, insists India

July 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: A day after China tried to impose its authority over the selection of the next Dalai Lama, India has insisted that only the Buddhist spiritual leader and the religious conventions he established can do so, the media reported. New Delhi has made its position unequivocal on the question of the […]

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Roving Periscope: Importing farm products key issue in US-India tariff talks

July 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: In April, President Donald Trump paused his reciprocal tariffs on some 100 countries for three months, ending July 9. Several countries have since been racing against time to strike a favourable trade and tariff deal with America, even as Trump has just announced take on Japan! While he imposed as […]

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The Nayak moment: Thailand gets a new PM–for just one day!

July 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: In the 2001 Hindi movie “Nayak: The Real Hero,” actor Anil Kapoor, playing the role of a TV cameraman Shivaji Rao, becomes the Chief Minister for a day, in place of the incumbent played by Amrish Puri.  Thailand’s politics has just delivered a Nayak-like moment as, amid a political upheaval, […]

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The Dalai Lama: China objects to his successor, says will appoint its own

July 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet and took refuge in India in the late 1959s, is on course of naming his successor, to the chagrin of China which annexed Tibet some six decades ago, claimed its “approval” was necessary. According to Tibetans, Tenzin Gyatso, the present Dalai Lama, is the […]

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