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Antisemitism: Australia expels Iran’s Ambassador, three others

August 26, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after the new US Ambassador to France, Charles Kushner, accused Paris of tolerating antisemitism, which France rejected, Australia on Tuesday announced it would expel Iran’s Ambassador. Canberra has given seven days to Tehran’s Ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi and three other officials to leave Australia, following the withdrawal of its […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump tariffs may fizzle out like sanctions after the Pokhran-II n-tests in 1998

August 26, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Some sections in the Indian economy are concerned with the 50 percent tariffs the mercurial US President Donald Trump has imposed on India, effective Wednesday, but these ‘sanctions’ may likely be diluted or phased out the way Washington did when it clamped sanctions against New Delhi after the 1998 nuclear […]

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EVs: PM Modi flags off the first e-Vitara; Suzuki to invest Rs. 70k cr in India

August 26, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Hailing Maruti Suzuki as a “brand ambassador of Make in India,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flagged off e-VITARA, Suzuki’s first global strategic Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV), as its parent Suzuki Motor Corporation announced to invest Rs. 70,000 crores in India over the next six years. This investment will […]

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Anti-Semitism: Outraged, France summons US envoy Charles Kushner

August 25, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: An angry France has summoned US Ambassador to Paris Charles Kushner, a Jew, after he wrote a letter to President Emmanuel Macron alleging that Paris had failed to do enough to stem anti-Semitic violence, the media reported on Monday. Kushner, 71, whose son Jared is US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, […]

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Lobbying: Amid Trump tariffs, Pak hires seven American firms; India hires two

August 25, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The US imposed 25 percent tariffs on India, effective August 7, and an additional 25 percent as a penalty for importing Russian oil, effective August 27. It also imposed a 19 percent tariff on Pakistan. To counter Pakistani propaganda, for which Islamabad has hired seven American lobbying companies, India has […]

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Elon Musk’s “snake”: Trump nominates Sergio Gor, 38, as India envoy

August 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid the ongoing trade and tariff tensions between Washington and New Delhi, US President Donald Trump has nominated his close aide Sergio Gor as the next US Ambassador to India, seven months after the incumbent, Eric Garcetti, left as the American envoy. In June, former close Trump aide, Elon Musk, […]

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Roving Periscope: Ahead of Aug 27, EAM says trade talks with the US still on

August 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Although the US has cancelled its trade negotiators’ planned New Delhi visit from August 25 to 29, dashing hopes that the levies may be lowered or postponed, India has said trade negotiations with America are still in progress. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on Saturday that trade negotiations with […]

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SCO Summit: PM Modi, Putin among 20 world leaders invited by China

August 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: China on Friday said the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, to be held in Tianjin, will be the largest in the bloc’s history, with 20 world leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, invited to attend it. The Tianjin meeting of […]

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Palestine: If Hamas doesn’t surrender, Israel threatens to destroy Gaza City

August 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: If terror group Hamas does not agree to disarm and release all the remaining Israeli hostage, Israel threatened to destroy Gaza City, the media reported. Weeks after suggesting a peace deal, which never materialized, frustrated US President Donald Trump had asked Israel on July 25 “to finish the Hamas job.” […]

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Roving Periscope: “Maharaja of tariffs”, Trumpistan’s rant against India goes uglier

August 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Frustrated and flabbergasted at India bluntly refusing to budge on the trade and tariff issue and, instead, getting support even from China, the US on Thursday vent its spleen, reiterating that punitive tariffs of 50 percent on Indian imports will take effect next week. Calling India the “Maharaja” of tariffs, […]