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Roving Periscope: Australia pioneers social media ban for U-16 teenagers; others may follow

December 10, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Australia has become the world’s first country to legally ban use of social media for children under 16 years of age from Wednesday, blocking access to platforms including TikTok, Alphabet’s YouTube and Meta’s Instagram and Facebook. Ten of the biggest platforms were ordered to block children from midnight (1300 GMT […]

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Investments: Adani Group to invest up to Rs. 12 trillion in India by 2031

December 10, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Spanning key sectors like infrastructure, mining, renewable energy, and ports, among others, the Adani Group will invest up to Rs. 12 trillion (Rs. 12 lakh crore) in India by 2031, the media reported on Wednesday. The Gujarat-based ports-to-energy conglomerate Adani Group’s chairman Gautam Adani told a media outlet that: “There […]

Business

E-commerce: Amazon to invest $35 bn in India by 2030

December 10, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Global e-commerce behemoth Amazon, Inc., will invest more than USD 35 billion in India, across all its businesses, until 2030, the media reported on Wednesday. This announcement came within hours of the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in New Delhi, and the Redmond software […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Muslim outfits fume as the US tightens screws on terrorists

December 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After Texas, Florida—US President Donald Trump’s home state—has also declared the Egypt-headquartered Muslim Brotherhood and the US-based ‘advocacy group’ called Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as “foreign terrorist organizations” with immediate effect. Days after an Afghan immigrant killed a security official and injured another in Washington, DC, Florida Governor Ron […]

Business

India: Democracy and Pakistan don’t go together, says MEA

December 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Commenting on former Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi’s incarceration in a jail for over two years, India on Tuesday said Pakistan and democracy don’t go together. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal delivered a strong observation on the political churn in Pakistan, asserting that “democracy and Pakistan […]

Business

Energy transition: Adani Group to invest $75 bn in five years, says Gautam Adani

December 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani on Tuesday said the conglomerate will invest over USD 75 billion in the energy transition space over the next five years, asserting that India must do what is best for itself, define its own development path, and resist external pressures, the media reported. Speaking at […]

Business

Agriculture: The US may impose tariffs on rice imports from India

December 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Failing to push in America’s farm and dairy products into India, US President Donald Trump may now impose a tariff on rice imports from the South Asian country. He said that India should not be “dumping” rice into the United States market and he will “take care” of it, while […]

Business

Pak ‘offer’ to Britain: ‘Will accept sex scandal convicts if you hand over anti-Munir activists!’

December 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In a quid pro quo move, Pakistan has reportedly proposed to the UK to accept the return of convicted members of Pakistani ‘grooming gangs’ in exchange for Britain extraditing two high-profile anti-Asim Munir dissidents: former PM Imran Khan’s aide Shahzad Akbar, and a Pakistani army whistleblower, Major Adil Raja. Islamabad […]

Business

Ukraine: Zelenskyy hasn’t “yet read” the peace plan, regrets Trump!

December 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Criticizing Volodymyr Zelenskyy, US President Donald Trump on Sunday lamented that his Ukrainian counterpart hasn’t even read the proposed peace plan to end Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia since February 2022. He also claimed that Zelenskyy “isn’t ready” to sign off on a US-authored peace proposal aimed at ending the […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Resumed Thai-Cambodia clashes challenge Trump’s peace claims

December 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Hardly has any of US President Donald Trump’s half-a-dozen peace-broking claims survived. The latest to prove him wrong came when Thailand launched fresh air strikes on Monday on its neighbour, Cambodia, with both sides trading blame for renewed fighting on their disputed border that has killed four Cambodian civilians and […]