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Roving Periscope: How a US firm smuggled out Venezuelan woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize?

December 13, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It may become the stuff of a Hollywood movie: an American company, with support from the US military, smuggling out a Nobel Peace Prize awardee from Venezuela, against which President Donald Trump is waging a war! Even after months of multiple ceasefire claims, manipulated nominations, and an active campaign, Trump […]

Defence

Pakistan: With gains fragile, IMF tightens noose, slaps 11 more conditions

December 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slapped 11 new conditions on Pakistan under its USD 7 billion bailout programme to crack down on corruption in the South Asian country. The move raised the total compliance requirements on Pakistan to 64 over 18 months, according to the Fund’s staff-level report for […]

Business

Myanmar: Ahead of Dec 28 poll, military junta’s air attack kills 34 patients in hospital

December 11, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Ahead of December 28 “sham election,” at least 34 people died and dozens more were injured after air strikes from Myanmar’s military junta hit a hospital in the country’s west on Wednesday night, the media reported on Thursday. The hospital is located in Mrauk-U town in Rakhine state, controlled by […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Nobel-obsessed, Trump ‘lost India’, says the US Dem lawmaker

December 11, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: His obsession for a Nobel Peace Prize, even as he wages war on Venezuela, claimed multiple peace deals, and annoyed millions across the planet in 2025, has made Donald Trump risk becoming a president ‘who lost India,’ the media reported on Thursday. He risks becoming “the President who lost India”, […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Australia pioneers social media ban for U-16 teenagers; others may follow

December 10, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Australia has become the world’s first country to legally ban use of social media for children under 16 years of age from Wednesday, blocking access to platforms including TikTok, Alphabet’s YouTube and Meta’s Instagram and Facebook. Ten of the biggest platforms were ordered to block children from midnight (1300 GMT […]

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India: Democracy and Pakistan don’t go together, says MEA

December 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Commenting on former Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi’s incarceration in a jail for over two years, India on Tuesday said Pakistan and democracy don’t go together. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal delivered a strong observation on the political churn in Pakistan, asserting that “democracy and Pakistan […]

Business

Pak ‘offer’ to Britain: ‘Will accept sex scandal convicts if you hand over anti-Munir activists!’

December 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In a quid pro quo move, Pakistan has reportedly proposed to the UK to accept the return of convicted members of Pakistani ‘grooming gangs’ in exchange for Britain extraditing two high-profile anti-Asim Munir dissidents: former PM Imran Khan’s aide Shahzad Akbar, and a Pakistani army whistleblower, Major Adil Raja. Islamabad […]

Business

Banquet: Congress laments, Tharoor enjoys Putin event at Rashtrapati Bhavan

December 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after President Draupadi Murmu hosted a state banquet to honour visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin, Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor, who attended, said a “warm and engaging atmosphere” reigned at the event. Officially, the Congress on Friday lamented that the leaders of the opposition in parliament, Mallikarjun Kharge and […]

Defence

Islamabad: Munir allows Imran’s sister Uzma Khanum to meet jailed ex-PM

December 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As expected, the military-political-bureaucratic ‘establishment’ in Islamabad, led by “Field Marshal” Syed Asim Munir, on Tuesday sought to puncture the claims of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) activists, that their top leader Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi may have been harmed or killed, by allowing one of his sisters to meet the ex-Prime […]

Business

Warning: A major war, possibly nuclear, coming in 5-10 years, says Elon Musk

December 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person with a net worth of nearly USD 500 billion, has warned that a major war, possibly nuclear, is likely in five to ten years, the media reported on Tuesday. The tech billionaire, while making this ominous prediction, feared that the world could fall into […]