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Roving Periscope: The US signs 30-day ceasefire deals with Russia and Ukraine

March 26, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the ongoing US-brokered deals, Ukraine and Russia have agreed to a temporary ceasefire in their over three-year-old war, promising to refrain from attacking energy infrastructures and ensure unhindered Black Sea navigation, the media reported on Wednesday. Earlier, the US said it had made separate agreements with Kyiv and Moscow to […]

Elections

Roving Periscope: On Ukraine, the US-Russia talks far from a deal—yet

March 25, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, it believed the war would be over in “48 hours.” Likewise, Donald Trump, during his presidential campaign in 2024, declare that he will put an end to the Ukraine war in “two days.” More than three years on—exactly after 1,125 days—the war […]

Business

Canada: PM Carney orders snap parliamentary poll on April 28

March 24, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid several crises it is facing, both internal and external, Canada will go to snap parliamentary elections on April 28, the media reported on Monday. Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday triggered the vote as he seeks to build on his Liberal Party’s momentum since the start of the year, in the […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Turkiye’s Erdogan finds his nemesis in Istanbul Mayor

March 24, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the powerful Mayor of Istanbul (1994-98) before he became Turkey’s Prime Minister (2003-14) and then President (2014…). Increasingly, he became Islamist, then Pan-Islamist, and even tried to resurrect the Ottoman Empire which died in 1924, and, in 2022, unite non-Arab Muslims—including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Malaysia—to […]

Defence

Williams & Wilmore: “I’ll pay for their overtime work,” says Trump

March 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: American astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who returned from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth this week after being stranded there for over nine months, may have another pleasant surprise: although NASA is reported to have denied them payment for overtime work, US President Donald Trump has offered […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Trump revokes parole; to deport 5 lakh back to nearby nations

March 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With US President Donald Trump revoking their parole, more than half a million people from neighboring countries such as Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela face deportation in the next few weeks, the media reported on Saturday. Effective April 24, this decision will end a two-year “parole” granted by the preceding […]

Business

Roving Periscope: 3.2 mn Americans, aged 120+, disappear from SS database in 10 days

March 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Indian media has often reported dead people ‘voting’ or fake persons receiving benefits of government schemes. Now the US has also discovered 3.2 million people, aged more than 120 years—or nearly one percent of the total US population of 340 million—potentially receiving government benefits, and promptly removed their names […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Now, Putin plays hardball with Trump and Zelenskyy!

March 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Republican candidate Donald Trump, who had boasted last year that, if elected as the US President, he would end the Ukraine war in two days, may now be doing a reality check—indeed, he recently claimed his statement was in a ‘lighter vein’—after his telephonic conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin […]

Business

Ukraine: Trump to discuss 30-day ceasefire proposal with Putin on March 18

March 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: US President Donald Trump has said he will speak to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday (March 18) about the proposed 30-day interim ceasefire plan to end the ongoing war in Ukraine whose President Volodymir Zelenskyy has already agreed to the proposal, the media reported on Monday. The Kremlin […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Tulsi Gabbard sees ‘huge opportunities’ in India

March 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: President Donald Trump’s close associate Tulsi Gabbard, now the Director of National Intelligence in the US, has said there is “nothing but opportunity” in the India-US partnership, the media reported. Her observation came a day after Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on America’s imports from April 2. She is in India […]