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Roving Periscope: Trump 2.0 pushes China into India’s uneasy embrace!

January 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Call it geopolitical serendipity! Within a week of US President Donald Trump’s second Inauguration, and his multiple threats and actions against all and sundry, China and India are trying to re-embrace each other. In particular, China is trying to keep America away from India—as far as possible. That may explain […]

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26/11: NIA to bring Tahawwur Rana to India, but the US ‘keeps’ Headley

January 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A team from India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) is expected to fly to the US on January 30 to bring back Tahawwur Rana, one of the masterminds of the Mumbai terror attacks of November 26, 2008, in which 166 people were killed and several others injured. India decided to dispatch […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump wants China to press Putin for the Ukraine deal!

January 24, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: He may be grabbing headlines in world media for his ‘reckless’ announcements, but few, if any, might take his boasts and alleged threats seriously—especially outside the United States. With Moscow downplaying his call to strike a peace deal with Ukraine as “nothing new,”, US President Donald Trump has turned to […]

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ChatGPT Outage Hits Users Worldwide

January 23, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 23: The popular AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT has gone offline due to a technical issue, affecting millions of users worldwide. The outage has also impacted OpenAI’s API and other services, causing widespread disruption. According to Downdetector, a service that tracks outages, there has been a significant spike in complaints about ChatGPT being offline, […]

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Bangladesh: India discusses with the US the new developments

January 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said he had a brief discussion on the current situation in Bangladesh with newly-appointed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. “Yes, we had a brief discussion on Bangladesh. I don’t think it’s appropriate that I get into […]

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Hughes Fires: 50,000 evacuated as devastating Los Angeles inferno returns

January 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: US Officials on Thursday evacuated nearly 50,000 people from fire-hit areas around Los Angeles, California, as the recent wildfires, which destroyed properties worth over USD 150 billion, killed many, and forced celebrities to flee, returned with ferocity—the fire department named them the Hughes Fires. A new wildfire erupted north of […]

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Roving Periscope: “He didn’t pardon himself,” Trump warns Biden!

January 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Reacting to Joe Biden’s last-minute, pre-emptive pardons for his siblings and their spouses—claiming that had been subject to “attacks” to hurt him—President Donald Trump has warned his predecessor that he (Biden) had not pardoned himself. In his first interview since Inauguration on Monday, he said Biden had not given himself […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump’s fiat on citizenship draws strong protests

January 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Hours after his second Inauguration on Monday, US President Donald Trump’s controversial decisions were challenged in courts and the opposition from elected lawmakers also mounted. Law officials from at least 22 states in the US sued on Tuesday to block President Trump’s move to end a century-old immigration practice as […]

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66 Killed in a Hotel Fire in Turkey

January 21, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 21: At least 66 people were killed and scores of others injured in a massive fire that broke out in a 12-storey hotel at a popular ski resort in north-western Turkey on Tuesday, Turkey’s Interior Minister said. Witnesses said desperate guests had tried to escape using ropes, footage showed bedsheets hanging from […]

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World Bank – Appointed Neutral Expert Vindicates India’s Stand against Pakistan on Indus Water Treaty

January 21, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 21: The World Bank-appointed Neutral Expert has announced that it is competent to decide on the differences between India and Pakistan over two hydropower projects in Jammu and Kashmir, under the Indus Water Treaty – a decision that upheld India’s position and was welcomed by New Delhi on Tuesday. In a statement, […]