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Roving Periscope: Dreaming of a Nobel Peace Prize, Trump delays his Iran attack!

June 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Donald Trump, who has long lamented that his predecessor Barack Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize immediately after he became the US President in 2009— “And he had no idea why he got it!”—can now wait for 15 days to convince Iran to scrap its nuclear program and to persuade […]

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Canada: Khalistan activists a “threat to national security”

June 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney in Canada to reset bilateral relations, Ottawa admitted, for the first time, that the Khalistani activists on its soil were a “threat to national security.” A calibrated Canadian report called Sikh separatists engaged in violent extremism […]

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Roving Periscope: Munir proposes Nobel for Trump, who asks him to pay the bill!

June 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Self-declared dealmaker–“I have been making deals all my life!—businessman-turned-US President Donald Trump hosted a working lunch for Pakistan’s Army chief ‘Field Marshal’ Asim Munir on Wednesday, said he was “honored to meet this smart man,” and then asked him to pay the bill, as he sought access to the bankrupt […]

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G-7 Summit: To reset India relations, Canadian PM sidesteps Nijjar case

June 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Attempting to restore historically close ties with India, the new Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, on Wednesday, almost sidestepped the killing of a Khalistani terrorist, Hardeep Singh Nijjar in 2023, that spoiled relations between the two democracies in the last two years. Declining to say anything as the case is […]

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Economy: Amid global uncertainties, India a rare “bright spot”

June 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the world struggles against multiple uncertainties, India remains a rare “bright spot,” Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) V. Anantha Nageswaran said on Wednesday, pointing to the country’s steady economic performance despite ongoing global challenges over the last few years. While conflicts and disruptions have been part of the global scene […]

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After Op. Sindoor: Trump accepts Modi’s Quad Summit invite, says India

June 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Although he is busy with the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict, the Gaza War, and the now-on-backburner Russia-Ukraine hostilities—and keeping Pakistan army chief Asim Munir firmly in Washington’s check—US President Donald Trump has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to the Quad Summit in India later this year. Announcing this acceptance, India’s […]

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Roving Periscope: For a smooth Iran plot, Trump detains, fetes Munir ‘pre-emptively’!

June 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: All governments do it the world over. For a peaceful conduct of a major event, they ‘pre-emptively’ detain miscreants to prevent them from messing up. That’s what Donald Trump may have done before he unveiled his Iran plans: the US invited, then uninvited, Pakistan’s self-proclaimed army chief, “Field Marshal” General […]

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Evacuation: India shifts students, advises Indians to exit Tehran

June 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid speculations of a blood-soaked regime change in Iran, Israel has warned Tehran residents to leave the Iranian capital immediately, and around 300,000 of them reportedly left the city to potentially safer areas, India also moved out several of its students and advised all Indians to exit. As the conflict […]

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Roving Periscope: Are the US, Israel plotting a regime-change in Iran?

June 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, which has left around 300 dead since Friday last week, US President Donald Trump abruptly cut short his visit to Canada and left the ongoing Group of Seven (G-7) Summit there on Monday, declaring that he has “much bigger” aims than merely […]

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Cyprus: In a ‘message’ to Turkiye, PM Modi gets clicked next to disputed area

June 16, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In what is being viewed as a ‘subtle message’ to the pro-Pakistan Turkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi was clicked with Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides in the backdrop of a Turkish-controlled disputed territory, the media reported on Monday. PM Modi toured the capital city of […]