Food

Business

Tit-for-tat: Beijing shuns Washington, buys costlier soybeans from Brasilia

August 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With anti-US sentiments unfolding worldwide, China has replaced the import of American soybeans with more expensive produce from Brazil, according to media reports on Thursday. Even if other nations importing US soybeans continue as usual, American exports would still fall by 48 percent—because China is the largest buyer. The US […]

Business

Roving Periscope: PM Modi fires back (at Trump): “Will protect farmers’ interests.”

August 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the US began officially levying higher tariffs on dozens of countries on Thursday, including India, which now faces a 50 percent import duty, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his first-ever reaction, announced that India will protect its farmers’ interests at all costs. “We will protect our farmers’ interests even […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Trump ‘takes over’ the UK—before he will meet King Charles in Sept

July 29, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: He behaved like the King of Scotland, made Sir Keir Starmer a mere ‘extra’ in his own land, and called the London Mayor “nasty person” in the presence of the UK Prime Minister, the media reported on Tuesday about US President Donald Trump’s ongoing tour to the homeland of his […]

Business

Roving Periscope: After 3 years, India and UK sign landmark six billion pound FTA

July 24, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India and the United Kingdom on Thursday announced a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), which is expected to boost exports by a multi-billion-pound amount and potentially double them by 2030. Negotiations on the trade deal took three years, having been started by former PM Boris Johnson in 2022. Union Commerce […]

Business

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 […]

Business

Markets: Amid US-China trade war, RBI’s rate-cut, bourses get bruises, again

April 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping intensified their ongoing trade war, India’s central bank cut interest rates and tried to provide some relief to home and automobile loanees, while the volatile equity markets ended, again, in the red, the media reported on Wednesday. Hours after […]

Business

USAID: Trump admn cuts 83% of programmes globally

March 10, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The United States on Monday announced that it would shut down 83 percent of programs worldwide, funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), a stronghold of the Democratic Party. The media reported, quoting officials, that these programs did not meet Washington’s interests. Announcing on Monday, Secretary of State […]

Business

Roving Periscope: For a month, Trump delays 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada

March 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: He may not have bargained for a swift tit-for-tat from both Canada and Mexico, or the fallout in home markets for the tariffs he imposed on the countries to the north and south of the United States of America. Amid his roller-coaster drive through geoeconomics and geopolitics since January 20, […]

Business

Roving Periscope: As realities dawn, Trump tries to apply balm to wounds!

March 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With complications to his tariff announcements and threats surfacing, amid some of his pressure tactics working, US President Donald Trump has paused tariffs, and granted US automakers a month’s exemption on Canadian and Mexican imports, even as Washington also forced Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to “apologize” and the European Union […]

2024-12-12T133523Z_264088265_RC2PNBATFQWY_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP

Business

Roving Periscope: Trump tempest roils the US and world; China moves to the WTO

March 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Presiding over chaos at home and overseas, America’s non-conventional President Donald Trump’s fresh steps threaten a government shutdown in the US and engage Washington in an unprecedented global trade war for the first time in history. The US itself is now on the verge of shutdown at Trump pushed for […]