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Correcting course: After appeasing the US, Pak vows to ‘deepen’ ties with China also

May 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Rattled over reports that China, its “all-weather ally”, is outraged with Islamabad suddenly beseeching Washington early this month for help against India, Pakistan has now declared it would ‘deepen’ ties with China. In particular, according to reports, Beijing was angry with Islamabad for hinting that the ‘substandard’ Chinese and Turkish […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump’s Golden Dome may ape Reagan’s Star Wars!

May 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: America’s objective has remained the same, although its enemies are different. Then, it was the Soviet Union; now it’s China plus Russia. Aiming to defend the USA and galaxy, no less, Republican President Ronald Reagan, on March 23, 1983, in a televised address to the nation, announced his plans to […]

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Trump tariffs: India well-positioned to deal with negative effects, says Moody’s Ratings

May 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Dispelling fears in some quarters, Moody’s Ratings said on Wednesday that India is well-positioned to deal with the negative effects of the current US tariffs and global trade disruptions as domestic growth drivers and low dependence on exports anchor the Indian economy. The media reported that government initiatives to boost […]

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EAM Jaishankar meets Danish PM in Copenhagen, discusses green partnership, anti-terror cooperation

May 21, 2025 revoi editor

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, currently on an official visit to Denmark, met Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen, conveying Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal greetings and reaffirming India’s commitment to deepen its Green Strategic Partnership with Denmark. Taking to X, EAM Jaishankar wrote, “Thank PM Mette Frederiksen for warmly receiving me in Copenhagen […]

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Airstrikes kill dozens in Gaza, international criticism of Israel grows

May 21, 2025 revoi editor

Israeli forces killed at least 55 Palestinians in airstrikes in Gaza on Tuesday, local medics said, continuing to bombard the enclave despite mounting international pressure to halt military operations and allow unimpeded deliveries of aid. Britain announced it was suspending trade talks with Israel and summoning its ambassador over “egregious policies” in the occupied West […]

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Fundamentally Flawed: Nvidia CEO Huang on U.S. Export Policy Fueling China’s Own Chip Development

May 21, 2025 revoi editor

U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence chips to China were “a failure,” Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said on Wednesday. “All in all, the export control was a failure,” Huang said, adding, “The fundamental assumptions that led to the AI diffusion rule in the beginning, in the first place, have been proven to be fundamentally […]

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EU, Britain go ahead with new Russia sanctions without waiting for Trump

May 21, 2025 revoi editor

The EU and Britain announced new sanctions against Russia on Tuesday without waiting for Washington to join them, a day after President Donald Trump’s phone call with Vladimir Putin brought about neither a ceasefire in Ukraine nor fresh U.S. sanctions. London and Brussels said their new measures would zero in on Moscow’s “shadow fleet” of […]

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Amazon fires drive unprecedented global forest loss in 2024, report says

May 21, 2025 revoi editor

Massive fires fuelled by climate change led to global forest loss smashing records in 2024, according to a report issued on Wednesday. Loss of tropical pristine forests alone reached 6.7 million hectares (16.6 million acres), an 80% spike compared to 2023, and an area roughly the size of Panama, mainly because Brazil, the host of […]

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Camouflaging Defeat: Routed Pakistan Army Chief “Promoted” as Field Marshal

May 20, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, May 20: Thus can happen only in Pakistan. The defeated army chief Asim Munir, whose armed forces received a drubbing from the India army during “Operation Sindoor,” is to be promoted and designated as the Field Marshal, the topmost military rank, an honour given only in the rarest of occasions and […]

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Terror: If the US can extradite Rana, why can’t Pak send Saeed, Lakhvi to India?

May 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: If the US can extradite terrorist masterminds like Tahawwur Rana to India, why cannot Pakistan extradite Hafiz Saeed and others to India? Citing a long list of terror attacks in India that originated from Pakistan, India’s Ambassador to Israel J P Singh has said that the “root cause is the […]

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