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Adani University Holds its First Convocation

October 5, 2024 revoi editor

Ahmedabad, 5 October 2024: Adani University celebrated its first convocation ceremony today at its Shantigram campus, marking a significant milestone in the institution’s journey towards academic excellence. Padma Shri Kartikeya Vikram Sarabhai, one of the world’s leading environmental educators and the Founder & Director of the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) delivered the convocation address. […]

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Living standards: India’s per capita income to go up by $2,000 over 5 years

October 4, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It took India 75 years to achieve a per capita income of USD 2,730 but the next step will be much faster, taking only five years to add USD 2,000 to it, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday. Speaking at the Kautilya Economic Conclave, she expressed confidence in the […]

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Markets: Investors lose Rs. 9.6 trillion as global tensions drag down Indian stocks

October 3, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Global uncertainties and heightened volatility because of geopolitical tensions, the possibility of the Iran-Israel war escalating across the Middle East, dragged down Indian stocks on Thursday. Amid a significant sell-off, the Indian stock markets witnessed a sharp decline. The BSE Sensex plummeted 1,769.19 points (2.10 percent) to close at 82,497.10, […]

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Environment: After heavy rains, large parts of the Sahara desert turn green!

September 26, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With nearly half a foot of rain, large parts of the Sahara desert, one of the driest places on Earth, are witnessing a surprising burst of greenery, the media reported. Heavy rainfall has led to vegetation sprouting across the typically barren Sahara desert, US Space Agency. NASA’s satellite images reveal. Patches […]

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Roving Periscope: Over 900 Kuki infiltrators from Myanmar may reignite the Christian militancy in the Northeast

September 23, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Four months after the then Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed hinted at a ‘Western’ conspiracy to potentially cobble together a new Christian nation from the adjoining areas of Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar in the Northeastern region, her fears may be coming true with the reported infiltration of over 900 heavily-armed […]

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Semiconductors: President Biden, and PM Modi announce plans for a new plant in India

September 23, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The USA and India will work together on setting up a semiconductor fabrication plant in the South Asian nation, giving a boost to visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to bolster chip manufacturing in the country. The proposed plant will make infrared, gallium nitride, and silicon-carbide semiconductors, according to a White […]

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Roving Periscope: MS chief warns of ‘foreign interference’ on eve of US polls

September 19, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid this year’s Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had, in a TV interview, disclosed that some ‘foreigners’ were not only ‘interested’ in the Indian parliamentary elections but also ‘interfering’ in it. Now, Microsoft Corporation’s President Brad Smith has warned of possible meddling by foreign state actors in the final […]

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Good news? ADB to give $ 2bn annually as fresh loans to Pakistan!

September 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A nearly bankrupt and failing state, Pakistan, woke up on Tuesday to a piece of news it didn’t know if it was good or bad for national honor: the Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) has assured Islamabad that it would get USD 2 billion per annum, as fresh loans, every year, […]

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States: West Bengal’s economy declined from the early 1960s

September 17, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: West Bengal, which held the third-largest share of national GDP at 10.5 percent in 1960-61, now accounts for only 5.6 percent in 2023-24, and has seen a consistent decline throughout this period, a government report has said. The state, whose largest city Calcutta (now Kolkata) was the British Raj’s capital in […]

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Pakistan: Now, terrorists use PUBG features to avoid surveillance!

September 16, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Before they launched an attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on August 28, terrorists used the popular video game PUBG’s features to avoid being tracked by Pakistan intelligence officials, the media reported on Monday. According to the English daily Dawn, terrorists used features from PlayerUnknown’s BattleGrounds (PUBG), a popular video game, to […]