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Pakistan: India to have strictly bilateral relations, asserts EAM Jaishankar

May 15, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid US President Donald Trump’s multiple attempts to take credit for ‘brokering’ peace between India and Pakistan and offers to mediate in the Jammu and Kashmir matter, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Thursday reiterated that New Delhi’s relations and dealings with Islamabad will be “strictly bilateral,” which is a […]

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PIB Fact-Check debunks fake claims about IAF Rafale pilot’s last rites

May 15, 2025 revoi editor

The Press Information Bureau’s (PIB) fact-check unit has dismissed a viral social media claim suggesting that the last rites of an Indian Air Force (IAF) Rafale pilot were conducted following alleged casualties during Operation Sindoor. On Thursday, PIB flagged multiple Pakistan-based accounts that circulated an old image, claiming it depicted the funeral of a Rafale […]

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Canada: Indian-origin leader Anita Anand named Foreign Minister

May 14, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney has nominated Indian-origin Liberal leader Anita Anand as his Foreign Minister, potentially improving relations with India, the media reported on Wednesday. Carney, who replaced Justin Trudeau earlier this year and won snap parliamentary election in April, named Anand, a former defense minister, in place of […]

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Roving Periscope: Undeterred, Trump parrots ‘ceasefire’ credit for a 5th time!

May 14, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Even after being trolled worldwide for his false claims that he got India and Pakistan to stop cross-firing, a boastful Donald Trump reiterated it a fifth time, ostensibly to impress his supporters at home where he has earned the dubious distinction of becoming the most unpopular US President-ever within three […]

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Fake news: After blocking the Pakistanis’ accounts, India blocks Global Times, too

May 14, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For spreading fake news, India on Wednesday blocked the X account of China’s official mouthpiece Global Times, shortly after it falsely reported that Pakistan shot down an Indian fighter jet—claims the Indian Embassy in Beijing quickly dismissed as baseless. India has withheld the X (formerly Twitter) account of Chinese state-run […]

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East Pakistan: Hasina man and ex-President Hamid, 81, flees to Bangkok in a lungi!

May 13, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after Dhaka banned the Awami League, former President Muhammed Abdul Hamid fled Bangladesh in the wee hours last week to Bangkok, Thailand, sitting in a wheelchair and clad in a lungi, the media reported on Tuesday. Hamid, 81, was the 16th President of Bangladesh for two terms between 2013 […]

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Op Sindoor: PM Modi debunks Pak claim on S-400; troops kill 3 terrorists in J&K

May 13, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fresh warning to Pakistan on Tuesday that any more spilling of Indians’ blood will call for its destruction, the Islamabad-sponsored terrorists intruded at Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir, only to get killed by the alert armed forces. A day after addressing the nation on Monday […]

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Roving Periscope: India punctures Trump claim for the May 10 ‘ceasefire’

May 13, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India on Tuesday denied US President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he used trade as a tool to secure a ‘truce’ between India and Pakistan on Saturday last week (May 10), according to the media reports. In his address to the nation on Monday evening, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that […]

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Roving Periscope: Blinking together, the US and China slash tariffs for 90 days

May 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After a lot of fire and brimstone they spewed against each other for weeks, the US and China blinked together at Geneva, Switzerland, on Sunday and agreed to slash reciprocal tariffs by 115 percent for 90 days, soaring investors’ sentiments around the world markets for the time being. During this […]

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Markets: Sensex, Nifty zoom over 3% in their best performance in 4 years

May 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With a thaw in the ongoing US-China trade talks and the ‘ceasefire’ between India and Pakistan, the benchmark Indian equity indices, BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty50, logged their biggest intraday gains in the last four years on Monday. The Dalal Street investors celebrated the suspension of hostilities between India and […]