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Trump’s tremors: India for early deal, China begs with EU, ASEAN, others

April 10, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal remarked that the current turmoil in the financial world is mainly because of China’s policies over the years, India seemed ready to quickly sign a deal with the US on the trade and tariff-related issues. The White House had also revealed that […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump apes Mao to corner China, keep others on tenterhooks

April 10, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: To corner China, US President Donald Trump, who boasts of making successful deals all his business life, may be following Mao Zedong’s strategy of “two steps forward, one back.” By suddenly pausing implementation of his tariff terror for three months, and pushing the import duty against Beijing further up to […]

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Roving Periscope: India too big for the US to use against China, says UN advisor

April 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: America’s well-known economist and UN advisor Jeffrey Sachs believes India is too large a country for the United States to use its trade adversary China, the media reported on Wednesday. Interestingly, China, which has been dumping its products in India and other countries, and violating the World Trade Organization (WTO) […]

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South Korea; Snap polls on June 3 to elect a new President in a ‘headless’ country!

April 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A virtually ‘headless’ South Korea, on Tuesday, officially set June 3 for a snap presidential election, triggered by last week’s sacking of Yoon Suk Yeol from the highest office and his impeachment upheld by both parliament and the top court for alleged misuse of office and corruption. With the announcement […]

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Roving Periscope: Now, Trump’s Man Friday Musk clashes with tariff chief!

April 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: US President Donald Trump, who is fighting a ‘world trade war’ against almost all countries on this planet, may not have bargained for it. Even as millions of American protesters have raised a “Hands Off” banner of revolt against his policies, and the US’s closest allies in the West are […]

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Roving Periscope: Despite Trump’s tariffs, India to push growth story ahead

April 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While some economists insist that the Trump tariffs could slow down India’s growth by 20 to 40 basis points in 2025-26 amid the ongoing global disruptions, the Union Finance Ministry believes India is likely to meet its projected growth target of 6.3 percent to 6.8 percent in FY26, The higher […]

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Markets: Trump tariffs roil world bourses; Sensex, Nifty tank 3% on “Black Monday”

April 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the world economy and markets plunged southward after US President Donald Trump’s latest round of ‘reciprocal tariffs,’ the Indian equity markets on “Black Monday” markets reacted negatively with Sensex and Nifty sinking precipitously by 3 percent, the media reported. Even as anti-Donald Trump demonstrations across the US, Europe, and […]

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Neighbours: India, Sri Lanka ink pacts for defense, energy cooperation

April 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For the first time, India and Sri Lanka signed an ambitious defence cooperation pact on Saturday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlining a broader roadmap for deeper bilateral cooperation. The pact asserts that the security of the two neighbours is interlinked and interdependent. According to a media report, the defense […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump tariffs trigger market crash; trillions lost, global recession feared

April 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the US started collecting the initial ‘baseline’ 10 percent tariff on Friday, the Wall Street crashed, and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. feared that the American economy could fall into a recession in 2025 itself after accounting for the likely impact of the 10 to 49 percent tariffs announced this […]

Defence

South Korea: Court upholds President Yoon’s impeachment over martial law orders

April 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Friday upheld the ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment over his short-lived martial law declaration, voting unanimously to strip him of office for violating the constitution. Angry South Korean lawmakers had suspended Yoon, 64, over his December 3, 2024, attempt to subvert civilian rule, and […]