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Roving Periscope: “Oh Canada!”, Trump says the ‘golden age’ of America to begin

January 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Attempting China-like cartographic diplomacy, President-elect Donald Trump, just 12 days before his January 20 inauguration, published a ‘new map’ of America including Canada as the 51st state of the USA, setting the cat among the other pigeons—Mexico, the Panama Canal, and Greenland—he may annex during his upcoming four-years in the […]

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Three Cases of HMPV Detected in India, but “No Need to Panic”

January 6, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 6: The centre has once again advised people not to panic even as three cases of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) were detected in India by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) on Monday, the first in the country, amidst massive surge of the disease causing respiratory problems reported in China. […]

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Markets: HMPV, Trump, and FIIs pull Indian stocks down by over 1.5%

January 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After a positive start to the New Year last week, Indian stocks plunged over 1 percent on Monday because of the rising concerns over the spread of another feared COVID-19-type pandemic, and also due to the potential global uncertainties after Donald Trump’s second-term beginning in the US on January 20, […]

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No Need for Panic but World Monitoring Anxiously Spread of Covid-like Virus in China

January 4, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 4: The spread of the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV), a respiratory illness with flu-like symptoms similar to COVID-19, in China has raised health concerns globally with all the countries closely monitoring the situation. Photos and videos of people wearing masks in hospitals in China emerged on social media platforms and local reports said […]

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Roving Periscope: Biden cancels $15 bn steel bid as Japan is a “security risk!”

January 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Harry S. Truman, a Democrat, was the US President in 1945 when America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, forcing Japan to surrender and close the Second World War. Now, 80 years on, America still considers Japan a “security risk,”—although the US provides it the overall security cover—and another […]

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India Monitoring Spread of HMPV Viruses in China, No Cause of Concern Now: UHM

January 3, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 3: India is closely monitoring cases of respiratory and seasonal influenza in the country amid the scare over alleged outbreak of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday. The Ministry maintained that while China had reported a rise in respiratory illness, particularly HMPV, India hadn’t registered any […]

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WHO: Trump team to withdraw the US from global health watchdog

December 24, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: President-elect Donald Trump’s team is preparing to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization (WHO) which may cripple the global health watchdog’s resources and finances, the media reported on Tuesday. Washington may make this decision on the day of the new President’s inauguration, which is scheduled for January 20, […]

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Economy: Better than many other countries, India to end 2024 on a positive note

December 16, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The India Story continues… Despite a few downs, the Indian economy is ending 2024 on a positive note, with the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) easing to a three-month low in November, prices cooling, and business growth reaching a four-month high, the media reported on Monday. Government data showed on Monday […]

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Inflation: CPI-based retail inflation was down to 5.48% in Nov

December 12, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based retail inflation slowed down to 5.48 percent in November from a 14-month high of 6.21 percent in October, data released by the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) said on Thursday, indicating persistent price pressures across sectors. The media reported that the data […]

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Roving Periscope: Ahead of Trump 2.0, COVID-19’s “lab-leak theory” resurfaces

December 3, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In 2020, then-US President Donald Trump dubbed the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic because of a “Chinese virus,” suspected to have leaked from Wuhan in China. Ahead of his second, non-consecutive term beginning next month, the same theory has resurfaced, thanks to his Republican Party’s findings—and hinting at the US’s […]