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Roving Periscope: Post-Trump comeback, G-20 meet may look lackluster

November 18, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Being held in the shadow of Donald Trump’s return to the White House in two months, the upcoming Group of 20 Summit in Brazil, beginning on Tuesday, may appear lackluster and discuss the ‘new situation’ besides pending issues like fighting poverty, boosting climate financing and other multilateral initiatives that could […]

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Education: As Indian students shun them, UK varsities face cash-crunch

November 16, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With a drop of more than 20 percent Indian students’ enrolment in the United Kingdom universities, these institutions are facing financial crises, the media reported on Saturday. Starry-eyed Indian students are now avoiding UK universities, adding to their financial woes at a time when education institutions are already coping with […]

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Technology: Google’s AI assistant Gemini advises a student to “Please Die!”

November 16, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: “Please die,” Gemini, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot of Google, ‘advised’ a shocked student who sought assistance with homework in the United States, the media reported on Saturday. “You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You […]

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Roving Periscope: Amid Trump-scare worldwide, China treads cautiously

November 16, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Expect a paradigm shift in geopolitical discourse after January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump becomes the US President again. While Europe is trembling with fear, a scared China is treading cautiously. “China has no plan to surpass or replace the United States,” Beijing’s Ambassador to Washington Xie Feng said in […]

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Sri Lanka: Sans Opposition, Anura’s leftist coalition wins landslide in parliament

November 15, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Sri Lanka’s new Marxist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s leftist coalition won a landslide victory in snap legislative elections, results showed on Friday, as the traditional Opposition seemed ‘dead’ and voters repudiated unpopular establishment parties they blamed for triggering an economic crisis since 2022. Dissanayake, a self-avowed Marxist, swept the September […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump-panicked, Europe’s last appeal to Biden to rush Ukraine aid

November 15, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Donald Trump’s second inauguration on January 25, 2025, expected to trigger geopolitical temblors, Europe has made a last-ditch appeal to outgoing US President Joe Biden to rush the promised American support for Ukraine to strengthen Kyiv’s position to the extent possible before the Democrat’s presidential term ends in the […]

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Economy: In a ‘sweet spot,’ India’s GDP growing at 7.2% in 2024, says Moody’s

November 15, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi emplanes for Brazil to attend the G-20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro (November 18-19), global rating agency Moody’s has said the Indian economy is in a ‘sweet spot’, and forecast a 7.2 percent growth in the calendar year 2024. The fastest-growing emerging economy, India, […]

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Roving Periscope: Now, a “Khalistan” in North America?

November 14, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Despite decades of terror and bloodshed, they couldn’t do it in India, nor in Pakistan which supported and sponsored them. Now, the frustrated pro-Khalistanis may have found a new place, Canada, to set up a Khalistan, according to the media reports on Friday. It’s a deja wu moment for Canada, […]

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Rewarding a turncoat: Trump names Hindu woman Tulsi Gabbard as DNI

November 14, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: If you think political turncoats in ‘weaker’ democracies alone get rewarded, think again. Donald Trump has also rewarded Tulsi Gabbard, whose parents converted from Christianity to Hinduism and raised her as a Hindu–she is only three weeks old in the Republican Party–with a plum posting in his second shot at […]

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West Asia: Saudis a “very important” factor in regional stability, says EAM

November 13, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Wednesday emphasized that Saudi Arabia plays a key role in maintaining stability in West Asia (the Middle East). In his opening remarks at the second meeting of the Political, Security, Social and Cultural Committee of the India-Saudi Arabia Strategic Partnership Council with Saudi Arabia’s […]