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Bangladesh: India discusses with the US the new developments

January 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said he had a brief discussion on the current situation in Bangladesh with newly-appointed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. “Yes, we had a brief discussion on Bangladesh. I don’t think it’s appropriate that I get into […]

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Roving Periscope: “He didn’t pardon himself,” Trump warns Biden!

January 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Reacting to Joe Biden’s last-minute, pre-emptive pardons for his siblings and their spouses—claiming that had been subject to “attacks” to hurt him—President Donald Trump has warned his predecessor that he (Biden) had not pardoned himself. In his first interview since Inauguration on Monday, he said Biden had not given himself […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump’s fiat on citizenship draws strong protests

January 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Hours after his second Inauguration on Monday, US President Donald Trump’s controversial decisions were challenged in courts and the opposition from elected lawmakers also mounted. Law officials from at least 22 states in the US sued on Tuesday to block President Trump’s move to end a century-old immigration practice as […]

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Immigration: India prepares to take back 18,000 illegals from the US

January 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the “Trump Factor” looming large across the planet, India is prepared to work with the 47th US President’s administration to identify and take back all its citizens residing illegally in America, according to a media report on Tuesday. This is an early signal from New Delhi that it’s willing […]

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Markets: After Trump’s return, India’s equity markets crash on “terrible Tuesday”

January 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the global markets muddied by the new US President Donald Trump’s announcements and threats, and some other reasons, India’s bourses crashed on Tuesday, with the BSE Sensex sliding down to 1,432 points to hit an intraday low of 75,641.87. The NSE Nifty50, too, tumbled 367.90 points to hit a […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump quake stirs the US and the West, starts roiling the world

January 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Within hours of Donald Trump’s Inauguration as the 47th President of the US on Monday, America withdrew from the WHO, Paris Climate Accord, and more, as the worried world waited with bated breath what the maverick Republican leader would bequeath to the planet four years from now. He suspected the […]

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Roving Periscope: Fragile ‘ceasefire’ as Israel and Hamas exchange prisoners

January 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nobody knows how long would the fragile six-week-long ‘ceasefire deal’ between Israel and Hamas survive but, as it folded on Sunday, the Sunni terror group of the Gaza Strip released three Israeli women hostages as Tel Aviv also released 90 Palestinian prisoners as per terms of the peace deal, which […]

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Pakistan: For ‘graft,’ Imran gets 14 years, wife Bushra 7 years in jail

January 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A Pakistani court on Friday convicted former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niyazi, who has been in jail since August 2023 and facing around 200 court cases since his ouster, and his wife Bushra, in a landmark case of alleged corruption, and sentenced them to 14 years and 7 […]

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Farewell Biden: Outgoing President hints at Musk and other tycoons, and warns of oligarchy

January 16, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As he packs his bags to leave the White House before his successor, Donald Trump’s January 20 Inauguration, outgoing US President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (Joe Biden), 82, on Wednesday warned the people that oligarchy is taking shape in America. In his Farewell Address to the Nation, he indirectly cited […]

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Last laugh: Adani firms’ stocks soar in India as Hindenburg shuts shop in the US

January 16, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With less than 100 hours to President-elect Donald Trump’s re-entry into the White House, the Democratic Party-supported Hindenburg Research, which the contemporary US’ deep state allegedly misused against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last couple of years, hurriedly shut its ‘financial butchery’ on Wednesday. […]