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Roving Periscope: Beating estimates, India’s GDP grew 8.2% in Q2FY26

November 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Beating all estimates,  and despite multiple challenges from within and outside the country, India’s economy in the second quarter (July-September) of the current financial year 2025-26 (Q2FY26) grew a staggering 8.2 percent, as the South Asian powerhouse’s overall GDP is expected to cross the USD 4 trillion mark next year. […]

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Roving Periscope: To arm-twist it, Trump shuts out S. Africa from next G-20 Summit

November 27, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday described as “regrettable” the announcement by US President Donald Trump that South Africa would not be invited to take part in next year’s G-20 Leaders’ Summit in Florida, USA, the media reported. In a social media post, Trump complained South Africa had refused […]

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Economy: India’s growth to be robust; GST 2.0 to cushion US tariff impact, says IMF

November 27, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: India’s economy is estimated to grow at 6.6 percent in the current financial year (2025-26) and the recent Goods and Services Tax (GST) reforms are likely to help cushion the country from the adverse impact of the 50 percent tariffs imposed by the US, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said […]

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Doctors’ terror: Netanyahu postpones December visit to India

November 25, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Citing “security concerns,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled visit to India in December has been postponed, according to a report by Israel’s I24News. His last official visit to India was a six-day trip from January 14 to 19, 2018. This was the second visit by an Israeli PM to […]

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Roving Periscope: China-Japan spat on Taiwan may open a new war theatre in East Asia

November 24, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The recent China-Japan spat over Taiwan shows how rapidly the geopolitical situation changes and countries discover old enemies at the gates. Only on October 31, 2025, Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shook hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping, ahead of the Japan-China Summit on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific […]

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India-Canada: After 2 years, FTA talks to restart; Carney to visit India in 2026

November 24, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Mark Carney deciding to resume negotiations on the bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), India and Canada are set to restart trade talks after a two-year rift, the media reported on Monday. The two PMs also decided to nearly double bilateral trade by 2030, Union […]

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Roving Periscope: To eclipse China, the US elevates S. Arabia as “Major Non-NATO Ally”

November 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After virtually losing the Middle East to China briefly during the COVID-19 and Joe Biden era (2020-24), the US now has all the eggs in its basket: Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey—and neutralized its bete noire Iran, for now. This is the key takeaway from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin-Salman […]

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Defence: The US okays the sale of missiles, artillery rounds worth $93 million to India

November 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As Russia offered India Su-57 fifth-generation stealth fighter aircraft, without restrictions, ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s visit to New Delhi next month, the US has, in a major defence deal, swiftly cleared the sale of Javelin missiles and Excalibur artillery rounds worth USD 93 million to India. The US move […]

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Bangladesh: Amid turmoil, Dhaka to seek Interpol help for Hasina’s extradition from India

November 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With India unlikely to extradite ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, 78, in a hurry to Bangladesh after a kangaroo tribunal sentenced her in absentia to death for alleged “crimes against humanity,” Dhaka is planning to seek Interpol’s help to get her, the media reported on Wednesday. Amid internal turmoil […]

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Bangladesh: After her death sentence, India unlikely to return Hasina in a hurry

November 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As Islamists applaud a kangaroo tribunal sentencing ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed on charges of “crimes against humanity,” and Dhaka asking New Delhi to return her, India is unlikely to send her back to Bangladesh in a hurry. Hasina, 78, who fled Dhaka as pro-Pakistani Islamists, disguised as ‘student […]

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