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Trade & tariffs: Trump hopes for “potential deals” with India, S. Korea, and Japan

May 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After waging a fierce trade war against multiple countries, including China, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has “potential trade deals” with India, South Korea, and Japan—all viewed as anti-Beijing—the media reported on Thursday. In remarks at an ‘Investing in America’ event in Washington, D.C., he said he […]

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US economy contracts in the first quarter

May 1, 2025 revoi editor

The U.S. economy contracted for the first time in three years in the first quarter, swamped by a flood of imports as businesses raced to avoid higher costs from tariffs and underscoring the disruptive nature of President Donald Trump’s often chaotic trade policy. The Commerce Department’s advance gross domestic product (GDP) report on Wednesday, however, […]

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India, Egypt to boost joint counter-terrorism efforts

May 1, 2025 revoi editor

India and Egypt have agreed to intensify their collaboration in combating terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. This decision was made during the 4th Meeting of the Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism, held in Cairo on Wednesday. In a press release, India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that both countries strongly condemned the […]

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Ukraine, US sign minerals deal sought by Trump

May 1, 2025 revoi editor

Ukraine and the U.S. on Wednesday signed a deal heavily promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump that will give the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals deals and fund investment in Ukraine’s reconstruction. The two countries signed the accord in Washington after months of sometimes fraught negotiations, with uncertainty persisting until the last […]

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Global nuclear fusion project crosses milestone with world’s most powerful magnet

May 1, 2025 revoi editor

A much-delayed nuclear fusion project involving more than 30 countries is ready to assemble the world’s most powerful magnet—a key part of efforts to generate clean energy by smashing atoms together at super-high temperatures. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, based in southern France and backed by the United States, China, Japan, Russia, and […]

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Australia Votes: Understanding the General Election Process

May 1, 2025 revoi editor

Australia will hold a general election on Saturday, May 3. Opinion polls indicate Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s ruling centre-left Labour party is ahead of the conservative Liberal-National coalition led by Peter Dutton, as global uncertainty fuelled by U.S. President Donald Trump makes some voters more risk-averse. A large number of independent and minor parties are […]

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Pakistan Cancelled All Flights to PoK

April 30, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 30: Apparently fearing military action by India in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack killing 26 tourists, Pakistan on Wednesday cancelled its own flights to the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir days after it closed its airspace to all flights owned and operated by Indian carriers in retaliation of […]

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Security: Amid Pak tensions, India revamps NSAB with ex-RAW chief as its head

April 30, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A week after Pakistan-based Islamist terrorists killed at least 26 Hindu tourists at Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, and war cries escalated in both the countries, India on Wednesday revamped the crucial National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), for the first time after 2018, the media reported. Alok Joshi, the former […]

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Gold: As prices skyrocket, demand falls by 15% in three months, says WGC

April 30, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India, believed to be the world’s largest gold consumer, has seen its demand for the yellow metal fall by 15 percent this year because of skyrocketing prices, the World Gold Council (WGC) has said. This decline in sales volume was offset by a 22 percent surge (in rupee terms) in […]

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Ukraine: N. Korea sent up to 15k soldiers of whom 600 died, says S. Korea

April 30, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: About 600 North Korean soldiers, who fought for Russia in its ongoing war against Ukraine, have been killed so far, according to South Korean lawmakers. Addressing the media after a closed-door briefing by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Wednesday, Lee Seong-kweun and Kim Byung-kee said that an estimated 4,700 […]