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Canada: Trudeau says Trump “serious” about making it America’s 51st state

February 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: He is heading a fragile minority government and stares at the grim prospects for his Liberal Party in the parliamentary elections by October 2025. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with less than 10 percent popularity ratings, is still trying to avert this inevitability, and somehow, return to power. By raking […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump ‘fires’ Biden, strips him of security clearance

February 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It a tit-for-tat move, about two weeks after he returned to the White House, US President Donald Trump on Friday revoked Joe Biden’s security clearance for classified information, reminding his predecessor of what he did unto him four years ago. When Trump lost the second term, the new President Joe […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump 2.0 regime starts ‘eroding’ global institutions

February 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Within two weeks of re-taking the White House for the next four years, US President Donald Trump has started ‘dismantling’ the global institutions, his latest target being the International Criminal Court (ICC), which issued arrests warrants in 2023 against Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Ukraine conflict and against Israel […]

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Bangladesh: Mobs attack Mujib house; Hasina says “History can’t be erased”

February 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As a crowd of Islamic fanatics set afire Bangladesh founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rehman’s house in Dhaka on Wednesday, his daughter Sheikh Hasina Wajed said “History cannot be wiped out.” In an online appeal to her Awami League activists, the former Prime Minister, who is staying in India after her […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump’s Gaza plan draws fire; the US says it’s “temporary”

February 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With President Donald Trump’s proposed plan for the Gaza ‘takeover’ and relocation of the Palestinians drawing international condemnation, his aides defended the proposal and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio climbed down stating the Palestinians’ resettlement would only be “temporary.” Welcoming the proposal, however, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said […]

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Deportation from the US: “Going on for years,” says S. Jaishankar in Parliament

February 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid political firestorm raised by the deportation of the first batch of illegal immigrants, who landed in Amritsar on Wednesday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that the deportation of such migrants from America has been ongoing for years. His remarks came amid the Opposition’s […]

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Illegal immigrants: El Salvador offers to pack the US deportees in jail—for a fee

February 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: El Salvador has offered to incarcerate American convicts and illegal migrants of any nationality deported from the United States at Latin America’s largest maximum security prison. However, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer comes with a price tag and legal challenges—the ones that US President Donald Trump’s administration is considering tackling, […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump proposes Gaza ‘take over’ and the Palestinians’ relocation!

February 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Remember Donald Trump declaring last year that America had nothing to do with other countries’ wars? However, after he re-entered the White House on January 20, 2025, he has been threatening to take over Canada, Greenland, Panama Canal, and more—and all of these mean potential wars. But what he has […]

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Markets: Amid China-US tariff war, and welcomed Indian Budget, bourses rejoice

February 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the positive impact of the Union Budget for FY26 sank in the last two days, and America’s tariff war with China commenced, the Indian stock market rejoiced on Tuesday with Sensex surging nearly 1,400 points and Nifty 380 points. The Indian markets climbed after the US tariffs imposed on […]

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Union Budget FY26: Nirmala unzips the purse, showers the goodies

February 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: First the good news for the salaried people: No income tax for those earning up to Rs. 12 lakh per annum. Unlike the past Budgets that filled the Treasury, this one fills the people’s pockets, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “With a special focus on the MSMEs, and Startups, we […]