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Roving Periscope: Targeting China, Trump ropes in SE Asia with trade, minerals deals

October 27, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Aiming at China, US President Donald Trump on Sunday signed a series of deals on trade and critical minerals with four members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), maintaining a tariff rate of 19 percent on goods exports from them to America, with the levy to be […]

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US Keen to Expand Relations with Pakistan, but Not at the Expense of India: Rubio

October 26, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Oct 26: The United States sees an opportunity to expand its strategic relationship with Pakistan but it will not be at the expense of its historic and important ties with India, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said. Ahead of his meeting with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in Kuala Lumpur on […]

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Two Arrested in Louvre Museum Theft Case

October 26, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Oct 26: Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft of precious jewellery from the Louvre Museum in Paris, media reports said citing sources. One of the suspects was detained around 10 pm (2000 GMT) on Saturday at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport as he was about to board a plane abroad, […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Trump begins to MAGA—by adding a massive ballroom to the White House!

October 24, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Fulfilling his election promise to Make America Great Again (MAGA), US President Donald Trump is rebuilding the East Wing of the White House to create a ballroom almost twice the size of the White House itself! And the ballroom’s construction, not legally permitted so far, will be privately-funded!! This will […]

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Business

Obituary: ‘Mile Sur Mera Tumhara’, ‘Ab Ki Baar Modi Sarkar’ creator Piyush Pandey passes away

October 24, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: India’s ‘advertising god’ Piyush Pandey, who gave some of the most unforgettable advertisements and slogans, breathed his last on Friday. He was 70. He is survived by his wife, Nila, sister Ila Arun, and brother Prasoon Pandey, the media reported. Several prominent personalities, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union […]

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Business

Trade: India, US, ‘close’ to seal the deal; ‘Won’t rush into any deal,’ says Goyal

October 24, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid reports that India and the US are ‘closer’ to sealing the first phase of the bilateral trade agreement (BTA), Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal on Friday asserted that New Delhi will not rush into trade deals and reject restrictive conditions. “India will not sign any trade […]

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Business

Crude: Trump clamps “tremendous” sanctions on key Russian oil cos

October 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Disappointed with all his efforts to end the Russian war in Ukraine producing zero results, US President Donald Trump has cancelled his likely meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Budapest, Hungary, and has instead slapped “tremendous” new sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, the media reported on […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: After the UNGA, PM Modi to skip ASEAN Summit also

October 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Putting to rest speculations on a possible meeting with US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to skip the forthcoming summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the media reported on Thursday. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will likely attend the […]

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Saudi Arabia Scraps “Kafala” System, Millions of Indian Workers to Benefit

October 22, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Oct 22: Bowing down to international pressures and human rights organisations and buoyed by its international ambitions, Saudi Arabia has finally confirmed scrapping of the controversial “Kafala” labour sponsoring system in vogue for over 70 years benefitting millions of labourers from other countries, the largest chunk of them being Indians. Reviled […]

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Bollywood

France: The Louvre Museum in Paris reopens 3 days after $102 mn heist

October 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris, central to novelist Dan Brown’s blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, and a Hollywood film of the same title, reopened on Wednesday, three days after a sensational, daylight robbery in which criminals stole eight of the nine targeted items, worth USD 102 million, and disappeared […]

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