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Trumpistan: “Unacceptable blackmail,” says Brazil to US tariffs

July 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after he hosted the BRICS Summit (July 6-7), Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday slammed his US counterpart Donald Trump’s threat to impose 50 percent tariffs on Latin America’s largest economy as “unacceptable blackmail.” Lula’s comments during a nationally televised speech were the latest in series […]

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Pakistan: Ahead of his sons’ arrival to lead protests, Imran blames Munir

July 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Ahead of his two sons’ likely arrival from London to lead protests in Pakistan, Imran Khan is laying the ground for a potential showdown with the Shehbaz Sharif government, seeking his release from jail. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, who is in jail for over two years […]

Business

Trump tariffs: Potential US-India interim deal may lower levy to under 20%

July 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A potential US-India interim trade deal, expected this month, may lower America’s tariffs on Indian imports to less than 20 percent, the media reported on Saturday. The deal may also force some other nations, including China, to come to terms with the US, whose President Donald Trump, in February, described […]

Business

Canada: ‘If you retaliate, tariff will go up beyond 35%,’ Trump warns PM Carney

July 11, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Clamping a 35 percent tariff on imports from Canada from August 1, US President Donald Trump has warned its Prime Minister that this levy will be increased if Canada retaliates, the media reported on Friday. In a Thursday (July 10) letter, Trump said he will raise taxes on many imported […]

Business

America Party: His net worth sinks, but Musk talks politics with Andrew Yang

July 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: His company’s net worth was down by a massive USD 68 billion in a single day on Monday, but the irrepressible Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, continued his push for his political outfit, America Party, and discussed politics with Andrew Yang, a former US Presidential candidate, the media reported […]

Business

China: Is ‘President-for-life’ Xi Jinping on his way out?

July 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: President Xi Jinping, who has helmed China since 2014, was ‘elected for life’ in 2023, and has been ‘missing’ for weeks, may step down by the end of 2025, the media reported on Monday, after weeks of social media speculation that he is ready to share power, or may have […]

Business

Roving Periscope: “Ridiculous…won’t work,” says Trump on Musk’s political outfit

July 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Mocking his friend-turned-foe Elon Musk’s potential political outfit, “The America Party” (TAP), US President Donald Trump on Sunday said it was “ridiculous”, and “won’t work.” Multibillionaire and Tesla CEO Musk, who shifted from the Democrats to support the Republican presidential candidate and donated millions for Trump’s campaign in 2024, was […]

Defence

Afghanistan: Taliban no longer on terror list; Russia first to recognize its regime

July 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The wheel of history has turned the full circle. The Taliban—meaning the “Islamist students’ organization”—was born in the early 1990s primarily against the Soviet Union, with support from the US and Pakistan. After losing thousands of Russian soldiers in the nine-year-long war, the then USSR exited Afghanistan in February 1989, […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Trump’s ‘BBB’ wins; crises ahead as national debt to mount to $40 trillion

July 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For once, he can sleep in peace. After re-entering the White House on January 20, President Doland Trump—after several ups and downs, and twists and U-turns—tasted his first legialstive victory in the US Congress on Friday when the House of Representatives also passed, though with a thin majority, his controversial […]

Business

The Dalai Lama: Only he can choose his successor, insists India

July 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after China tried to impose its authority over the selection of the next Dalai Lama, India has insisted that only the Buddhist spiritual leader and the religious conventions he established can do so, the media reported. New Delhi has made its position unequivocal on the question of the […]