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FBI’s Arrest of Harpreet Singh Highlights Pakistan’s Link with Pro-Khalistan Activists

April 18, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Apr 18: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which arrested alleged terrorist Harpreet Singh has linked him to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence and pro-Khalistan terror group, Babbar Khalsa International. Highlighting the alleged collaboration of Harpreet Singh with these two organisations, the FBI not only indicated the purported role of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in cross-border […]

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India Slams Bangladesh on Comments over Murshidabad Violence

April 18, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 18: India has slammed Bangladesh’s remark over the anti-Waqf Act protests and calling for “protection” of rights of the minority Muslims in violence-hit Murshidabad in West Bengal, and said it was Dhaka’s “unwarranted comments” and “virtue signalling” while advising it to focus on protecting the minorities in its country. “This […]

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Roving Periscope: US may drop out of Russia-Ukraine ‘peace deal’, says Rubio

April 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: One of US President Donald Trump’s pet projects in the last one year—to stop the ongoing, three-year-long conflict between Russia and Ukraine—may have become unviable on Friday with neither Moscow nor Kyiv evincing interest in going ahead, despite a partial Washington-Moscow deal last month in Saudi Arabia. A frustrated US […]

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Pakistan: Over 172,000 people left for better jobs since in three months

April 18, 2025 revoi editor

New Delhi: In cash-strapped and terror-infested Pakistan, more than 172,000 people left the country in just three months this year—January to March 2025—for better job opportunities abroad. Nearly 100,000 individuals of the 172,144 who left were categorized as general labourers, according to the official data released by the Bureau of Immigration and Overseas Employment (BI&OE). […]

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India’s US outreach: PM Modi dials Elon Musk, to host dinner for V-P JD Vance

April 18, 2025 revoi editor

New Delhi: Days before US Vice-President James David Vance and his India-born wife Usha land in the country on a four-day visit starting April 21, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday dialled Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to discuss issues related with technological collaboration and others. “Spoke to @elonmusk and talked about various issues, […]

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Polio Cases on the Decline in Pakistan

April 18, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Apr 18: A nation-wide polio eradication drive is being launched in Pakistan for a week from April 21 covering about 4.5 million children under the age of five. A meeting to review polio eradication efforts, chaired by the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday, was informed the efforts of the Pakistani government was […]

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Economy: “Notable markdowns, but no global recession,” says IMF

April 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has, while remarking that despite “notable markdowns,” are likely, there is no possibility of a global recession. Given the ongoing trade war, some economists fear that a global recession is a distinct possibility, especially because of the tariff war between the two largest economies—the USA […]

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India Rubbishes Pakistan Army Chief’s Claim Kashmir is its “Jugular Vein”

April 17, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 17: India has rubbished the Pakistan army chief General Asim Munir’s statement that Kashmir was Islamabad’s “jugular vein” and said Pakistan’s “only relationship with Kashmir” was to vacate the illegally occupied territory. In a strongly worded statement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said, “How can anything foreign be in a […]

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Roving Periscope: The Eagle may, after all, force the Dragon to blink first!

April 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With little tangible results emerging in its trade war against the US, a softening China may start a phased climb down and blink first to arrive at a compromise on tariffs with the world’s largest economy, if only to retain its second place. For now, however, Chinese President Xi Jinping […]

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Markets: On the BSE’s 150th anniversary, Sensex zooms 1,500 points; Nifty follows up with 414

April 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Indian indices on Thursday started low but flew over 1.7 percent with Sensex and Nifty closing up by more than 1,500 and 414 points, respectively, keeping their upward mobility in tune with some other world markets. Incidentally, the BSE on Thursday celebrated its 150th anniversary. The Sensex is the benchmark […]