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Tariff tantrums: Brazil to match US tariffs after Trump’s threat of 50% levy

July 10, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Responding to President Donald Trump’s Wednesday threat to impose a 50 percent import tax on Brazilian goods from August 1, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he is ready to match any tariffs imposed on his country by the US. The US is Brazil’s second-largest trade partner after […]

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Business

Internet: Elon Musk’s Starlink gets space regulator’s nod for India launch

July 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Technology czar Elon Musk’s Starlink has received a final regulatory permission for launching its highs-speed, satellite-based, Internet service in India, the media reported on Wednesday. The Indian National Space Promotion & Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe), the regulator, is an independent nodal agency in the Department of Space (DoS) for promotion, facilitation and […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Playing hardball, few countries dance to Trump’s tariff tunes

July 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: US President Donald Trump may not have predicted this. Gone are the days when America’s diktat prevailed worldwide. With globalization, networking, and privatization, geoeconomics is fast replacing geopolitics, and geostrategic goals are a far cry now. His grandstanding and then the inability to perform have earned him a tag: TACO, […]

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Business

“Water bomb:” Arunachal CM Khandu warns against China’s huge dam in Tibet

July 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The world’s largest dam project being developed by China is a ‘water bomb’ for India, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu has warned. The project, which China named as the Yarlung Tsangpo dam, was announced after Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited the border region in 2021, the media reported on […]

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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 […]

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Roving Periscope: India bargains hard; Trump extends tariff deal deadline to Aug 1

July 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With India bargaining hard and declaring that any trade and tariff deal with the US—indeed any country—will depend on protecting national interest, President Donald Trump, who was hoping to ink a mini-agreement or interim trade deal, has extended the reciprocal tariff deadline to August 1. Simultaneously, however, he imposed 25 […]

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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 […]

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Business

BRICS Summit: India leads it; Trump threatens “anti-Americans” with 10% extra tariff

July 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As the just-concluded 17th BRICS Summit at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, tried to navigate delicate geopolitical scenario, in the absence of the Russian and Chinese Presidents, India became the focal point of the event which condemned the Pahalgam massacre, and passed several resolutions, but a livid US President Donald Trump […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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