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Canada: Indian-origin leader Anita Anand named Foreign Minister

May 14, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney has nominated Indian-origin Liberal leader Anita Anand as his Foreign Minister, potentially improving relations with India, the media reported on Wednesday. Carney, who replaced Justin Trudeau earlier this year and won snap parliamentary election in April, named Anand, a former defense minister, in place of […]

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East Pakistan: Hasina man and ex-President Hamid, 81, flees to Bangkok in a lungi!

May 13, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after Dhaka banned the Awami League, former President Muhammed Abdul Hamid fled Bangladesh in the wee hours last week to Bangkok, Thailand, sitting in a wheelchair and clad in a lungi, the media reported on Tuesday. Hamid, 81, was the 16th President of Bangladesh for two terms between 2013 […]

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Roving Periscope: Blinking together, the US and China slash tariffs for 90 days

May 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After a lot of fire and brimstone they spewed against each other for weeks, the US and China blinked together at Geneva, Switzerland, on Sunday and agreed to slash reciprocal tariffs by 115 percent for 90 days, soaring investors’ sentiments around the world markets for the time being. During this […]

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Pakistan: Amid undeclared war against India, Imran’s party seeks his release from jail

May 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid an undeclared war with India, Pakistan is grappling with another home-made crisis. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), the largest Opposition party, is holding rallies demanding the immediate release of its chairman, Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, the former Prime Minister, who has been in jail for the last two years on multiple […]

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Bangladesh: Ahead of polls, former PM Kheleda Zia returns from London

May 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: To prepare for the upcoming parliamentary elections by the end of this year or early next year, former Bangladesh Prime Minister Begun Khaleda Zia, 79, returned to her country after medical treatment in the United Kingdom, the media reported on Tuesday. Ailing for a long time, she had gone to […]

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Roving Periscope: Now, Trump blocks federal funding for “biased” public radios

May 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the world focused on his actions and forensic scrutiny by the media, US President Donald Trump has blocked all federal funding the American public media outlets—PBS and NPR—which he considers are “biased.” In an executive order he signed on Thursday, he alleged that the two organizations—the Public Broadcasting Service […]

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America v/s Canada: “Our old relationship is over,” says PM Mark Carney

April 29, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A month after turning the fortunes of Liberal Party, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who is seen retaining power after the snap polls held on Monday, criticized the US and emphasized that Canada’s old relationship of integration with America is over. In his victory speech after the media projection that […]

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Roving Periscope: PM Carney’s Liberals win polls in Canada; Khalistanis lose

April 29, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Prime Minister Mark Carney-led Liberal party was on a victory path in Canada’s snap election held on Monday, according to local media projections on Tuesday. Both the public broadcasters CBC and CTV News projected the Liberals would form Canada’s next government, but it was not yet clear if they would […]

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Pahalgam: Junking 2021 decision, Pak, India exchange fire at LoC in J&K

April 25, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Failed and broke Pakistan, with China and Bangladesh supporting it, has not only suspended the Shimla Pact of 1971 after India’s largely diplomatic retaliatory moves post the Pahalgam terror attack, but also junked the informal 2021 decision to desist from firing along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump insists tariff talks on; but China denies it!

April 25, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It is becoming queerer by the day. While China has declared it will not have any tariff talks with the US until the latter withdraws the unilaterally imposed import duty, President Donald Trump insists that talks for a deal are in progress! Trump, his flip-flops and all, claimed his administration […]