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Japan to China: After MoUs-signing in Tokyo, PM Modi heads to SCO Summit

August 30, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Before heading for China to participate in the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit (August 31-September 1), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met governors of 16 Japanese prefectures in Tokyo, calling for stronger collaboration between Indian states and Japanese prefectures, the media reported. In Japan, a prefecture is the […]

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Roving Periscope: “Maharaja of tariffs”, Trumpistan’s rant against India goes uglier

August 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Frustrated and flabbergasted at India bluntly refusing to budge on the trade and tariff issue and, instead, getting support even from China, the US on Thursday vent its spleen, reiterating that punitive tariffs of 50 percent on Indian imports will take effect next week. Calling India the “Maharaja” of tariffs, […]

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Sri Lanka: Former President Wickremesinghe arrested for ‘misuse of state funds’

August 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who helped stabilize the island nation politically and economically after its worst-ever crisis, including a civil war and the overthrow of his predecessor, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in 2022, was arrested on Friday for allegedly misusing state funds, the media reported. Wickremesinghe, 76, a six-time Prime […]

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Bangladesh: India rejects claim of Awami League activities on its soil

August 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Rejecting Bangladesh’s claims that India has become the hub of Awami League activities, New Delhi has said it was not aware of any anti-Bangladesh activities in the country. Awami League President and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, whose elected government was overthrown by Pakistan-supported and anti-Hindu Islamic fundamentalists in […]

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Myanmar: After the bloody coup in 2021, military junta to hold phased elections from Dec 28

August 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nearly five years after it toppled a democratically-elected government, China-supported Myanmar’s military junta, fighting a long civil war, on Monday announced the first phase of general elections to begin on December 28 which, however, critics have already derided as a sham, the media reported. The National League for Democracy, led […]

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Ukraine: Trump and Putin may meet in the “coming days,” says the Kremlin

August 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid the US-led multilateral tariff war worldwide, Russia on Thursday said its President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump have agreed to meet in the “coming days,” to discuss the Ukraine issue. A summit between the two leaders was set for the “coming days”, with the two sides […]

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Pakistan: “Half of bureaucracy” trying to escape to Europe, claims Asif

August 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pakistan’s controversial Foreign Minister Khawaza Asif, notorious for his unfounded claims, has shocked his own country by saying that “half of Pakistan’s bureaucracy” is preparing to leave for Portugal and settle down in Europe! In a shocking ‘revelation,’ he publicly accused his own country’s top bureaucrats of massive corruption and […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump has sown the wind; he may soon reap the whirlwind!

August 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: US President Donald Trump’s erratic and radical trade and tariff policies have scared industries, businesses, and investors not only in other countries but also at home where the unemployment rate has increased to 4.2 percent as labour participation weakened, the media, quoting the US Labour Department, reported on Saturday. Panicked […]

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Roving Periscope: Livid, Trump clashes with ‘friend’ India, embraces frenemy Pakistan!

July 31, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: His problem is that nobody—neither on Earth nor in the rest of the Universe—now takes his Commandments seriously. Why? On January 24, 2021, for example, The Washington Post fact-checked, compiled, and found that Donald Trump had, during his first US Presidency (2017-20), lied more than 30,000 times! “By the end […]

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Trade deal: EU to pay 15% tariff to the US, buy energy worth $750 bn, and invest $600 bn

July 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After a high-stakes meeting between Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Scotland, the US and EU on Sunday clinched what the US President described as the “biggest-ever” deal to resolve a transatlantic tariff stand-off that threatened to explode into a full-blown trade war after August […]