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Ukraine: “All of it is ours,” claims Russian President Putin

June 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Hoping to ‘reclaim’ Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said that the whole of Ukrainian territory is part of Russia, the media reported. Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union (USSR) as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR), from 1922 to 1991. It was one of the founding […]

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Roving Periscope: As Pak nominates him, Trump laments: “I won’t get the Nobel!”

June 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: “I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize,” Donald Trump lamented on Friday but Pakistan, the global nursery and incubator for terror, has decided to nominate the US President for the 2026 award, the media reported on Saturday. Interestingly, he has been nominated at least four times for the Nobel! And […]

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Pakistan: India to never restore IWT, says Amit Shah

June 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India will never restore the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) with Islamabad, and its water flowing into Pakistan will be diverted for domestic use, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday, the media reported. India put into “abeyance” its participation in the 1960 bilateral treaty, which governs the usage of the Indus […]

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“Tactical romance”: Munir invites Trump; he may ‘elevate’‘Field Marshal’ as Ayub Khan II!

June 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Can US President Donald Trump’s “tactical romance” –as Al Jazeera put it—with Pakistan’s de facto dictator, ‘Field Marshal’ Asim Munir, lead to a regime change in Islamabad, maybe even before in Tehran! “In a gesture reflecting the warmth of bilateral ties, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir extended an invitation to […]

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Markets: Amid global chaos, resilient Indian stocks rebound by 1.29%

June 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Despite multiple global uncertainties, the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, and fears of a wider war in the Middle East, Indian stocks showed their resilience on Friday and markets snapped a three-day losing run. Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded sharply by over 1 percent after sliding for […]

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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 […]