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The World Bank: Extreme poverty rate declines in India from 27.1% to 5.3%

June 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The latest World Bank data revealed that India has made significant strides in the last decade in reducing its extreme poverty rate, from 27.1 percent in 2011-12 to 5.3 percent in 2022-23. About 75.24 million people were living in extreme poverty in India during 2022-23, a massive drop from 344.47 […]

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The Divided States: Internet urges Modi for “ceasefire” as Trump, Musk spar in public!

June 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Internet was flooded on Friday with social media users requesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to announce a ‘ceasefire’ between warring US President Donald Trump and his estranged billionaire-funder Elon Musk who have been firing on all cylinders this week, making the world puzzled and the markets panicking. Their memes […]

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Markets: With RBI’s significant rate-cut, Sensex, Nifty up 1%

June 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India’s benchmark equity indices surged on Friday after the RBI cut interest rates by more-than-expected 50 basis points — a third consecutive reduction — and reduced the cash reserve ratio (CRR) for banks to provide a major liquidity fillip to support the economy amid geopolitical and tariff headwinds. Recovering all […]

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Roving Periscope: Now, Russia pounds “almost all of Ukraine” with missiles

June 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Five days after Ukraine stunned Russia, and the world, with a low-cost destruction of a third of Russian Air Force assets merely by using drones from 4,500 km, Moscow’s missile attack on Friday left Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy admitting that “almost all of Ukraine” came under fireballs. Europe’s deadliest war […]

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Op. Sindoor: Group of US lawmakers support India’s right to retaliate

June 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A group of US lawmakers has strongly condemned the April 22 massacre of 26 Hindu-only tourists at Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, and supported India’s right to self-defense and retaliate, as they invoked a shared commitment to zero tolerance against terrorism. At a high-level meeting in Washington with the visiting all-party […]

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Roving Periscope: Tharoor invokes Hillary, reminds Bilawal of Benazir’s killing

June 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the last leg of his diplomatic tour of the Americas, former diplomat and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor reminded Pakistan of Hillary Clinton’s warning and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari how the terror snakes are biting their own nation and how Benazir Bhutto was gunned down by terrorists her son […]

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Security: Trump restricts entry of travellers from over two dozen countries

June 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Continuing his crackdown on illegal immigrants and travellers, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced restrictions on travellers from over two dozen countries, effective June 9. He signed a presidential proclamation restricting travel from these countries, citing national security risks and the need for improved vetting measures, CNN reported. The new […]

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The Breakup: Now, Musk dumps Trump’s pet Bill as “disgusting abomination”

June 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Their breakup seems complete, just three days after Elon Musk ended his nearly four-month-long honeymoon with the White House which he entered with Donald Trump after the latter’s inauguration for a second term as the US President on January 20, 2025. On Tuesday, the Tesla CEO blasted Trump’s “big, beautiful […]

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Roving Periscope: After the IMF, ADB also to ‘terror-fund’ Pakistan

June 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Unable to arm-twist a rising India, a hugely embarrassed America-led West has resuscitated its old poodle puppy Pakistan, muscling it up to bark even more ferociously at New Delhi. That explains why, after the International Monetary Fund (IMF), even the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a USD 800 million aid […]

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Roving Periscope: Action matters, not losses, says CDS Anil Chauhan on Op. Sindoor

June 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In cricket, if a team wins by an innings, the number of wickets, balls, or players do not matter. Likewise, India’s actions during the recent Operation Sindoor matters, not the losses it may have suffered, Chief of Defense Staff General Anil Chauhan said on Tuesday. Delivering a lecture at the […]