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One Killed during Protests over Monk’s Detention in Bangladesh

November 26, 2024 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Nov 26: At least one person was killed after violence broke out during peaceful protests staged demanding the release of Hindu religious leader and International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) monk Chinmoy Krishna Das Prabhu on Tuesday. Reports of violence came from Chittagong high court where protesters faced police action. Protesters sustained injuries […]

Business

Trump 2.0: Donald threatens tariff war with Canada, China and Mexico

November 26, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: US President-elect Donald Trump, who is set to take office on January 20, 2025, has vowed to clamp big tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico over alleged drug smuggling and immigration issues, which could potentially trigger trade wars and inflation, the media reported on Tuesday. He said he would impose a […]

Defence

Nepal: PM Oli says no loan agreement with China under BRI

November 26, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Monday said no agreement on loan would be reached during his upcoming official visit to China, beginning on December 2 at the invitation of Beijing. During a meeting he held with the Himalayan country’s former prime ministers and foreign ministers at his office […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Four soldiers killed amid Imran supporters’ march on Islamabad

November 26, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Facing dismal economic prospects, terrorist attacks, and relentless sectarian violence, Pakistan on Tuesday stared at a possible civil war as its Army, carrying a shoot-at-sight order, patrolled Islamabad after the death of four members of the paramilitary force Pakistan Rangers when they tried to prevent the supporters of jailed former […]

English

Indian National Charged for Molesting Women on a Singapore Flight

November 25, 2024 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Nov 25: A 73-year-old Indian national was charged in a Singapore court on Monday for allegedly molesting four women while on board a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight from the United States to Singapore earlier this month. Balasubramanian Ramesh is accused of molesting one of the women four times and is said to have […]

Business

“East Pakistan”: Bangladesh arrests Hindu monk protesting Islamists’ atrocities

November 25, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After more than three months of relentless attacks on Hindu properties and other atrocities on the minority community, the Jamaat-e-Islami-led Islamist government of Mohammed Yunus on Monday arrested a prominent Hindu monk for leading an agitation against the mayhem that began with the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina Wajed regime […]

Business

Roving Periscope: China wary of ‘Trump temblors’—Musk and Ramaswamy’s DOGE

November 25, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With only seven weeks remaining before the Donald Trump 2.0 era begins in Washington, China, the US’s biggest economic competitor, is wary of what the proposed Elon Musk-Vivek Ramaswamy-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would do in America. “There is a huge pressure on China,” an advisor to Chinese President […]

Business

Markets: Promising stability, post-poll results make Sensex and Nifty zoom over 1%

November 25, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After the Maharashtra Assembly results promised political and economic stability in the financial capital of India, which beat anti-incumbency fears, and positive global indications, the South Asian nation’s stock markets zoomed over 1 percent on Monday and the Indian rupee appreciated over 10 paise to the US dollar. The stock […]

Business

IMF conditions: Pak ministries at odds on gas supply cut to industries, power plants

November 23, 2024 revoi editor

New Delhi: Cash-strapped Pakistan’s finance and energy ministries are at loggerheads over implementing a key condition imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to reduce gas supplies to industries and power plants by January 2025, as part of the USD 7 billion bailout agreement. During a recent meeting at the Prime Minister’s House, the Petroleum […]

Business

Roving Periscope: ICC’s warrant against Netanyahu divides the West and its allies

November 23, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The International Criminal Court (ICC)’s arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and human rights violations in Gaza has divided the West and its allies, including members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). While some members of […]