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Roving Periscope: Importing farm products key issue in US-India tariff talks

July 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In April, President Donald Trump paused his reciprocal tariffs on some 100 countries for three months, ending July 9. Several countries have since been racing against time to strike a favourable trade and tariff deal with America, even as Trump has just announced take on Japan! While he imposed as […]

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The Nayak moment: Thailand gets a new PM–for just one day!

July 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the 2001 Hindi movie “Nayak: The Real Hero,” actor Anil Kapoor, playing the role of a TV cameraman Shivaji Rao, becomes the Chief Minister for a day, in place of the incumbent played by Amrish Puri. Thailand’s politics has just delivered a Nayak-like moment as, amid a political upheaval, […]

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The Dalai Lama: China objects to his successor, says will appoint its own

July 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet and took refuge in India in the late 1959s, is on course of naming his successor, to the chagrin of China which annexed Tibet some six decades ago, claimed its “approval” was necessary. According to Tibetans, Tenzin Gyatso, the present Dalai Lama, is the […]

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Gaza: After 58,000 deaths, Trump says Israel ready for a 60-day ceasefire

July 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit next week, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Israel has agreed to finalise 60-day Gaza ceasefire, and also urged terror outfit Hamas to accept the deal. The ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, which has claimed nearly 58,000 lives, started […]

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Syria: Trump lifts US sanctions, legitimizes ‘terrorists’ govt

July 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Chasing his dream to become a Nobel Peace Laureate, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ending US sanctions on Syria, following through on his promise to do so. With this, Washington has ‘legitimized’ the interim government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, former anti-Iran Sunni terrorist whom Trump met […]

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Roving Periscope: In S-2, Trump threatens, Musk dares; more fireworks likely

July 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Frenemies, they are irrepressible, and can bounce back when their foes believe they are finished. They found each other in 2024 when Donald Trump campaigned for a second term in the White House, and Elon Musk shifted allegiance from the Democrats to the Republicans and promptly donated USD 288 million […]

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Canada: Khalistan activists a “threat to national security”

June 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney in Canada to reset bilateral relations, Ottawa admitted, for the first time, that the Khalistani activists on its soil were a “threat to national security.” A calibrated Canadian report called Sikh separatists engaged in violent extremism […]

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Roving Periscope: Romancing the ex, the US restarts living with wrinkled Pakistan!

June 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: President Donald Trump, always a business dealmaker, has rediscovered Pakistan, America’s first love-at-sight in South Asia in the 1950s, ensured that Islamabad gets a high seat in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to cherry-pick terrorists, and even invited its self-appointed “Field Marshal,” Army chief General Asim Munir, who almost […]

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Roving Periscope: In X-warfare, Musk waves the white flag, says sorry to Trump

June 11, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After going hammer and tongs against Donald Trump for several days, Elon Musk on Wednesday said “sorry” to the US President, the media reported. Trump’s reaction was awaited. But will they really bury the hatchet for good? Amid their feud, and Trump’s tense relations with Europe, electric vehicle maker Tesla […]

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The MAGA Boys: As Musk may float a new party, Russia offers him ‘asylum’!

June 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid the ongoing high-voltage soap opera in the United States, the unending spat between President Donald Trump and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and unconfirmed reports that the world’s wealthiest billionaire may float a “New America Party” of his own, Moscow has turned the knife in Washington’s wounds, offering […]