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Trump’s tariffs: If continued, India’s GDP may shrink by 0.5%, says the CEA

September 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: If prolonged, US President Donald Trump’s 50 percent tariffs, which became effective on August 27, may shrink India’s GDP by 0.5 percent in the current financial year (2025-26), according to Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran, Chief Economic Advisor to the government. “I hope the additional penal tariff is a short-lived phenomenon,” […]

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Bonanza: With GST rate-cuts, Mahindra, Tata, and Renault to pass on benefits to customers

September 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Ahead of the festive season, leading four-wheeler manufacturers have announced a reduction in prices and pass on the benefits to customers following the Union Government’s “rationalization” of Goods and Services Tax (GST) and rate cuts in various sectors, including the automobile sector. According to media reports on Saturday, Mahindra & […]

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Roving Periscope: PM Modi refuses to fall in Trump’s traps; to skip UNGA meet in NY

September 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: For the first time since he became the Prime Minister in 2014, Narendra Modi will skip an important meeting in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York this month, maybe because he has once again seen through the ‘trap’ laid for him by his frenemy, US President Donald […]

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Ukraine: After the US, Europe and India intensify efforts to end the 42-month-long war

September 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With US President Donald Trump’s August 15 meeting in Alaska with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin bearing no fruits so far, Europe and India have, in their own ways, are refreshing efforts to end the biggest European conflict after the Second World War (1939-45) that has created fresh challenges to […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump hosts “high IQ” tech titans, tries to drive a wedge between foes

September 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: To save his face and credibility overseas and dull mounting criticism at home because of his unpredictable ‘policies,’ US President Donald Trump on Friday said India and Russia appear “lost” to the “deepest, darkest China.” Also, trying to humour the USA’s high technology companies, and potentially to weaponize their products […]

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Sour grapes: Trump, 79, gasps; now downplays talk of Nobel Peace Prize

September 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After lamenting that, despite his ‘outstanding’ achievements to stop almost one war a month after returning to the White House in January 2025 for a second term, and emerging as a global butt of jokes, a downcast US President Donald Trump has started downplaying his quest for a Nobel Peace […]

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Hegemony: Putin blasts Trump for ‘colonial’ tactics against India, China

September 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Just two weeks after they met in Alaska, Russian President Vladimir Putin reprimanded his US counterpart Donald Trump for attempting to exert colonial-era pressure tactics on leaders of powerful economies like India and China, saying that is not the way to deal with the partners. Powerful economies like India and […]

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Logistics: India plans to invest USD 125 bn in 10 years to expand high-speed roads

September 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With its economy projected to become the world’s second-largest by 2038, India is planning to invest USD 125 billion (Rs. 11 trillion) to expand its high-speed road network fivefold within a decade, modernize infrastructure, and slash logistics costs, the media reported on Thursday. It will add 17,000 km of access-controlled […]

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Roving Periscope: To regain EU’s lost trust, Trump woos Poland

September 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid his tall claims to end the 42-month-long Ukraine war remaining hollow and Europe, for the first time since 1945, suspecting America’s intention of continued support to its security from Russia, Donald Trump has “reassured” Poland of continued US military presence in the European nation. Washington’s growing disinterest in European […]

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Indonesia: As President flew to China, angry women protest against profligacy

September 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Furious at their lawmakers’ profligacy and alleged police brutality, angry women brandishing brooms and holding placards took out a protest rally outside Parliament in Jakarta in the Muslim-majority Indonesia on Wednesday, demanding reform, while their President flew to China to attend a military parade. Hundreds of women, dressed in pink, […]

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