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Temblor: Tibet earthquake, measuring 7.1, kills nearly 100; shakes Nepal

January 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A powerful earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale, rocked Tibet on Tuesday morning, killing nearly 100 people and injuring as many, while the aftershocks also shook Nepal and some other Himalayan areas, the media reported. The high magnitude temblor struck a remote mountainous region in Tibet, in western China, […]

Business

Economy: India’s GDP may grow 6.4% in FY25, says first advance estimates

January 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gives the finishing touches to the next fiscal year’s Union Budget (2025-26), to be tabled in Parliament in the coming Budget Session, the first economic survey for FY25 has projected a GDP growth of 6.4 percent in the current financial year, ending March 31, 2025. […]

Business

East Pakistan: Yunus-led Dhaka making a Nawaz out of Hasina!

January 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Remember how a certain Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, once-upon-a-time cricket-star-turned Prime Minister of Pakistan (2018-22), duly supported by the Army, thrust several cases against his predecessor—and now the de facto successor—Nawaz Sharif, forcing him into exile for years, until he returned to pay back the faded star and put him […]

Business

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, […]

English

Dear Pinarayi Vijayan, revisit Kerala’s history to understand Sanatana Dharma and Narayana Guru

January 6, 2025 revoi editor

(Guru Prakash) ‘No doubt the communists get quick results because when you adopt the means of annihilating a man, they do not remain to oppose you. Humanity does not only want economic values; it also wants spiritual values to be retained. Permanent communist dictatorship has paid no attention to spiritual values and does not seem […]

Business

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 […]

Business

South Korea: Impeached President Yoon blocks a probe into his corruption

January 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the ongoing political high drama in a democratic South Korea, anti-corruption investigators failed to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after a nearly six-hour standoff with the presidential security guards, the media reported on Friday. The continuing crisis has paralyzed the economic powerhouse nation’s politics and witnessed two heads […]

Business

Terror: FBI names US Army veteran Shamsuddin Jabbar in New Orleans carnage

January 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A United States Army veteran, Shamsuddin Jabbar, suspected to have terror links, has been named as the key suspect in the New Orleans carnage on the eve of the New Year’ in which at least 15 people died and 35 were wounded, the media reported on Thursday. Shamsuddin Jabbar, 42, […]

Business

Markets: Indian bourses greet the New Year 2025 with significant gains

January 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after celebrating the New Year 2025, the Indian stock market rallied by over 1.8 percent on Thursday as Sensex neared 80,000 points and Nifty crossed the 24,000 mark with optimism fueled by technical breakouts and upcoming earnings. Indian markets staged a robust comeback, with the benchmark Sensex surging […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Chinmoy denied bail as ‘East Pak’ apes Islamabad and Beijing

January 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Three days after Bangladesh Army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman described Dhaka’s relations with New Delhi as “give-and-take” and with Beijing as a “partner in development”, a Bangladesh court on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, who was arrested on November 25, 2024, on trumped up “sedition” […]