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Roving Periscope: Even after sham ‘elections,’ jailed former Pak PM Imran Khan may have the last laugh!

February 9, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: With its largest organized political outfit—Pakistan Army—holding sham ‘elections’ to the National Assembly on Thursday, and its sponsored prime ministerial hopeful Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif’s political outfit not getting the ‘desired’ results, the troubled South Asian nation seemed heading for fresh uncertainties. Despite the military’s all-out efforts to crush its […]

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Roving Periscope: Like Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka, anti-Indian Muizzu drags the Maldives into Chinese debt-traps

February 7, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: How to ruin your own country’s economy? Look at the Maldives which is treading the path Sri Lanka followed in the last few years by eagerly walking straight into exciting Chinese debt traps after it found India’s good neighborliness ‘boring.’ The current Maldivian President, Mohamed Muizzu, who came to power […]

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Pakistan: Army-controlled Islamabad on edge as Thursday’s NS polls loom amid terror strikes

February 6, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Reaping in the country what it has sown outside for decades, Pakistan, which faced a spate of terror attacks on Monday, was on edge as it limped towards the crucial National Assembly elections on February 8 amid fears of more strikes at a time the restive South Asian country facing […]

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Roving Periscope: Terrorists kill 10 police officers as Pakistan hurtles into Feb 8 polls

February 5, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Amid socio-economic and political conflagrations, and the February 8 elections to the National Assembly, terrorists struck a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 10 police officers. More than 30 terrorists attacked the police station early morning and, after an hours-long assault, killed the police officers, the […]

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Ayodhya: British MP Bob Blackman pillories the BBC for its ‘biased’ coverage

February 5, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Days after the historic consecration ceremony of the Ramlalla idol in Ayodhya on January 22 continues to resonate in India and abroad. Now, an influential British MP, Bob Blackman, has slammed the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for its ‘biased’ coverage of the program. Speaking in Parliament, he said the broadcaster […]

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Roving Periscope: Attacking Iran-linked targets, the US sinks deeper into the Middle East’s marshes

February 3, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Although Iran has yet to respond in kind—it has for long been only threatening the US of dire retaliation—the American attacks on Iranian-linked targets in the Middle East on Friday have pushed it down deeper into the volatile region’s inferno. The US launched airstrikes against Iranian forces and militias in […]

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Gujarat: With a surplus of Rs. 146 crores, no new taxes in the Rs. 3.32 trillion budget for FY25

February 2, 2024 revoi editor

Gandhinagar: The BJP-ruled Gujarat Government on Friday presented a Rs. 3.32 trillion (lakh-crore) budget for the financial year 2024-25, imposing no new taxes, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections scheduled to be held in April-May this year. Finance Minister Kanubhai Desai presented the budget for FY25 in the State Assembly here on the second day […]

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Aviation: Loss-making Pakistan International Airlines up for sale

February 2, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As Islamabad braces for the General Elections to the National Assembly next week, its caretaker government has fast-tracked a plan to sell loss-making state-owned Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the media reported on Friday. In the past, the South Asian nation’s elected governments shied away from undertaking unpopular reforms, including the […]

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Roving Pericope: As India promotes Lakshadweep, broke Pakistan assures help to the Maldives!

February 2, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Amid a diplomatic row, as New Delhi slashed the financial aid to the Maldives by 22 percent in the Interim Budge 2024 on Thursday, and a large number of Indian tourists shunned the island nation last month, a nearly bankrupt Pakistan has assured it of help, showing renewed interest in […]

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Budget highlights: Good news on fiscal deficit, infra, SHGs, green energy…and more

February 1, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The following are the key takeaways from the Interim Budget 2024 that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled in Parliament on Thursday. The Interim Union Budget for the financial year 2024-25 focused on fiscal consolidation, infrastructure, agriculture, green growth, and railways. However, no changes were made in the tax rates, disappointing […]

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