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Roving Periscope: After Pakistan, S. Arabia may ink defence pact with the US

October 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After signing a mutual defence pact with Pakistan in September—mainly against Iran—Saudi Arabia is re-exploring a pact with the US as well. During the recent Israel-Iran conflict, in which the US bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities, Tehran had fired missiles at Qatar which has a defence pact with the US. Ahead […]

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Defence: India to make domestic production 100%, says Rajnath Singh

October 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said India is looking at taking domestic defence production to 100 percent as dependence on foreign military supplies creates “strategic vulnerability.” After inaugurating a third production line of Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)-Mk1A and a second manufacturing facility of trainer jet HTT-40 in Nashik, […]

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Roving Periscope: In a 1971 Dhaka repeat, Taliban hang Pak soldiers’ pants in Afghanistan!

October 16, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In 1971, when nearly 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered before the Indian Army in Dhaka, many of them were photographed squatting without their trousers, and some Bangladesh Mukti Bahini members hung their pants publicly. Cut to 2025. As Pakistan claimed on Wednesday that it agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire as ‘requested’ […]

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Energy: India ‘rejects’ Trump’s claims on stopping Russian oil import

October 16, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Hours after US President Donald Trump claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had assured him of cutting the procurement of Russian crude oil, India on Thursday said that New Delhi is broad-basing and diversifying the sourcing of petroleum products to meet market conditions. India prioritises its consumer in an energy-sourcing scenario, […]

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Trade: India’s exports up 6.74%, imports increase by 16.6% in September 2025

October 15, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India’s exports increased by 6.74 percent to USD 36.38 billion in September, despite global headwinds, while imports rose 16.6 percent to USD 68.53 billion. The country’s trade deficit stood at USD 32.15 billion last month, the media reported on Wednesday. Imports surged due to the increase in imports of gold, […]

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Roving Periscope: From hotspots, Trump returns to trade war, dollar conundrum

October 15, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While hotspots like Gaza and Ukraine are smouldering, and Afghanistan and Pakistan are turning into new battlefields, US President Donald Trump has warned to cut China trade over the ongoing dispute over soybeans. China, on its part, has moved the World Trade Organization (WTO) against India’s subsidies to electric vehicles. […]

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No peace after Nobel: Irked, Venezuela to close its embassy in Norway!

October 14, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Embarrassed with its hiding Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado being declared the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2025, and then she dedicating it to US President Donald Trump, who ‘lost’ it, Venezuela on Tuesday said it would close its embassy at Oslo, Norway. Interestingly, Trump had not only campaigned […]

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Roving Periscope: Amid fragile peace, IDF guns down 5 Palestinians in Gaza

October 14, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After the hostage-swapping and US President Donald Trump’s departure for Egypt for the peace summit—in which neither Israel nor Hamas participated—the fragile peace in the Gaza Strip threatened to collapse on Tuesday as five Palestinians were shot dead, the media reported. About 200 US troops are in Israel to monitor […]

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AI hub: Adani, Google to partner in $15 bn Visakhapatnam data centre

October 14, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Adani Enterprises Ltd, through its joint venture AdaniConneX, has partnered with Google to develop India’s largest AI data centre campus along with new green energy infrastructure in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Google will set up its largest AI hub outside the USA in Visakhapatnam with an investment of around USD 15 […]

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Technology: Google to invest $15 bn in India’s first AI hub in Visakhapatnam

October 14, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid uncertainties in geopolitics, world trade, and tariffs, technology behemoth Google on Tuesday announced to invest USD 15 billion over the next five years to set up India’s first artificial intelligence (AI) hub in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The upcoming campus for the largest AI data centre outside the USA will […]