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Roving Periscope: For a month, Trump delays 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada

March 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: He may not have bargained for a swift tit-for-tat from both Canada and Mexico, or the fallout in home markets for the tariffs he imposed on the countries to the north and south of the United States of America. Amid his roller-coaster drive through geoeconomics and geopolitics since January 20, […]

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Agriculture: Hot summer temperatures may impact wheat production in India

February 27, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Although March is yet to begin this Saturday, Mumbai and many cities and towns have already registered high temperatures. The upcoming summer may impact wheat production in India this year, the media reported on Thursday. After three consecutive years of poor crop yields since 2022, India, the world’s second-biggest wheat […]

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Roving Periscope: In war-as-business, Russia and Ukraine hope to Trump one another!

February 25, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As Europe’s deadliest conflict since the Second World War entered the fourth year on Monday, US President Donald Trump, smoking the peace pipe with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, wants elections in war-ravaged Ukraine which its President Volodomyr Zelenskyy has almost rejected. Ever since he took office in January, President […]

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Chinese Researchers Identify another Bat Coronavirus

February 21, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Feb 21: A team of Chinese researchers are claimed to have discovered a new bat coronavirus with the potential for animal-to-human transmission. The virus, named HKU5-CoV-2, was found to use the same human receptor as SARS-CoV-2 which was responsible for Covid-19, media reports said. The study was led by Shi Zhengli, a renowned […]

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Bird flu: Amid shortages and rising prices, one lakh eggs stolen in the US!

February 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid shortages and rising prices, nearly one lakh eggs were stolen from a distribution truck in the United States, the media reported on Wednesday. The incident happened in Pennsylvania, where grocery stores are selling a dozen eggs for USD 4.69 or more, depending on the type and brand. The Pennsylvanian […]

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Markets: After Trump’s return, India’s equity markets crash on “terrible Tuesday”

January 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the global markets muddied by the new US President Donald Trump’s announcements and threats, and some other reasons, India’s bourses crashed on Tuesday, with the BSE Sensex sliding down to 1,432 points to hit an intraday low of 75,641.87. The NSE Nifty50, too, tumbled 367.90 points to hit a […]

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Economy: India to surpass Japan, become 4th largest economy in 2026, says PHDCCI

January 15, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Punjab, Haryana, and Delhi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) on Wednesday said India’s economy is expected to become the fourth largest in the world by 2026, surpassing Japan, as it projected the nation’s GDP to grow 6.8 percent in the current financial year ending March and 7.7 percent […]

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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, […]