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Nepal: President Paudel dissolves Parliament; announces fresh elections in March 2026

September 13, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after swearing in former Supreme Court Chief Justice Sushila Karki as the Interim Prime Minister, Nepal’s President Ramchandra Paudel late on Friday dissolved Parliament and announced fresh elections to be held on March 5, 2026, the media reported. After a week of chaos, the Himalayan country is slowly […]

Defence

Roving Periscope: Nepal’s leadership crisis continues as Gen Z shows some sanity

September 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid a free-for-all since Monday’s uprising, led by Generation Z mobs, and allegedly infiltrated by foreign influencers, Nepal on Friday stared at Himalayan uncertainties as youngsters clashed with each other on who should now lead Kathmandu, and then hit the streets on Friday to clean up the mess they created […]

Business

Brazil: Trump’s ‘friend’ ex-President Bolsonaro gets 27-year jail for coup attempt

September 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Recently, US President Donald Trump clashed with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, arm-twisted BRICS, accused it of alleged de-dollarization moves, and did whatever he could to protect his ‘friend’ former President Jair Messias Bolsonaro from being convicted of a coup attempt. It makes Bolsonaro, infamous as “Brazil’s […]

Business

Trump tantrums: Now, the US to press G7 bloc to impose tariffs on India, China!

September 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After failing to impress upon the European Union (EU) immediately to impose higher tariffs against India, the US is trying to persuade the Group of Seven (G7) countries to levy higher import duties against New Delhi and Beijing, even as President Donald Trump and his sycophants continued their carrot-and-stick policy […]

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Nepal: After Monday’s uprising,’ Gen Z factions confused on the next move

September 11, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After toppling the Communist-led government within 48 hours on Tuesday, and then torching several national symbols, the confused Generation Z, still leaderless and clueless, is trying to come to terms with a stark reality: how to govern a poor, landlocked country that has no government, and where more than 13,000 […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Trump proposes, but Europe is reluctant to dispose!

September 11, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A year after America’s independence from Britain, Scottish poet Robert Burns famously wrote in 1786: “The best laid plans of mice and men / Go often awry.” US President Donald Trump’s multiple plans have also failed to take off at home and abroad, despite much brouhaha. His favourite weapons of […]

Business

Roving Periscope: France also on the boil; may follow SL, B’desh, and Nepal

September 10, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid fresh fears of the Russian-Ukraine war spreading deeper in Europe, France came to a boil on Wednesday as thousands of demonstrators, protesting against increasing political uncertainties ahead of the 2027 presidential polls, poured out on the streets in several French cities in what could degenerate into a chaotic situation, […]

Business

Trade barriers: India and US talks continue, says Trump

September 10, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After several contradictory statements from him and his acolytes, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that India and America are “continuing negotiations” to address trade barriers, the media reported. His latest statement came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to skip the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting later […]

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CPEC: China, Pakistan to form $ 7bn consortium for railway project

September 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Proving the hopefuls wrong, who read too much in the so-called ‘bonhomie’ between China and India during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit a week ago, Beijing and Islamabad have announced a USD 7 billion consortium for a railway project under the ongoing USD 60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). […]

Business

France: Fourth PM in a year quits; weakened, Macron to face polls in 2027

September 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: European Union’s largest country, France, has done it again. On Monday, the government of its fourth Prime Minister in a year collapsed after François Bayrou lost a parliamentary confidence vote, defeated by 364 to 194 in the National Assembly, plunging the country into political paralysis. Bayrou, the 74-year-old centrist, was […]