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Roving Periscope: As Canada celebrates Trudeau exit, Trump ‘renews’ 51st state offer

January 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While many Canadians ‘celebrated’ the anticipated resignation of their highly unpopular Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 53, on Monday, President-elect Donald Trump renewed his offer to Canada to become the United States’ 51st state and enjoy prosperity and security, the media reported on Tuesday. Many people heaved a sigh of relief […]

Defence

Temblor: Tibet earthquake, measuring 7.1, kills nearly 100; shakes Nepal

January 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A powerful earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale, rocked Tibet on Tuesday morning, killing nearly 100 people and injuring as many, while the aftershocks also shook Nepal and some other Himalayan areas, the media reported. The high magnitude temblor struck a remote mountainous region in Tibet, in western China, […]

Business

Economy: India’s GDP may grow 6.4% in FY25, says first advance estimates

January 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gives the finishing touches to the next fiscal year’s Union Budget (2025-26), to be tabled in Parliament in the coming Budget Session, the first economic survey for FY25 has projected a GDP growth of 6.4 percent in the current financial year, ending March 31, 2025. […]

Business

East Pakistan: Yunus-led Dhaka making a Nawaz out of Hasina!

January 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Remember how a certain Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, once-upon-a-time cricket-star-turned Prime Minister of Pakistan (2018-22), duly supported by the Army, thrust several cases against his predecessor—and now the de facto successor—Nawaz Sharif, forcing him into exile for years, until he returned to pay back the faded star and put him […]

English

Free meals: Indonesia starts program targeting 83 million people

January 6, 2025 revoi editor

New Delhi: Indonesian President Prabowo’s multi-billion-dollar program to provide free meals to more than a quarter of his people was officially launched on Monday, feeding 570, 000 people on its opening day, the media reported. This scheme was soft-launched last year and became the centerpiece of President Probowo’s election campaign to regain power. On Monday, […]

Business

Markets: HMPV, Trump, and FIIs pull Indian stocks down by over 1.5%

January 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After a positive start to the New Year last week, Indian stocks plunged over 1 percent on Monday because of the rising concerns over the spread of another feared COVID-19-type pandemic, and also due to the potential global uncertainties after Donald Trump’s second-term beginning in the US on January 20, […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Biden cancels $15 bn steel bid as Japan is a “security risk!”

January 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Harry S. Truman, a Democrat, was the US President in 1945 when America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, forcing Japan to surrender and close the Second World War. Now, 80 years on, America still considers Japan a “security risk,”—although the US provides it the overall security cover—and another […]

English

India Conveys Strong Protests to China, Pakistan

January 3, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 3: India has conveyed its objection and protest via diplomatic channels to China after the neighbouring country set up two counties, parts of which come under the Union Territory Ladakh, and has also expressed reservations over Pakistan’s suggestions to improve ties between the two countries. The Ministry of External Affairs […]

Business

South Korea: Impeached President Yoon blocks a probe into his corruption

January 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the ongoing political high drama in a democratic South Korea, anti-corruption investigators failed to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after a nearly six-hour standoff with the presidential security guards, the media reported on Friday. The continuing crisis has paralyzed the economic powerhouse nation’s politics and witnessed two heads […]

English

New Viruses Spreading in China

January 2, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 2: China is claimed to be dealing with an outbreak of the human metapneumovirus (HMPV), five years after the Covid-19 pandemic. Reports and social media posts suggest that the virus is spreading rapidly, with some claiming that hospitals and crematories are overwhelmed. Videos shared online show crowded hospitals, with some users saying […]