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Media: Trump to sue The NYT with a $15 bn lawsuit over Epstein reports

September 16, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Fuming over sustained media disclosures, US President Donald Trump on Monday said that he will file a USD 15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times in Florida for its reporting on his alleged ties to late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a post on his Truth Social platform, […]

Business

Nepal: Interim PM Sushila Karki inducts three ministers

September 15, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the Himalayan country tried to rebuild life disturbed by last week’s deaths and destruction, Nepal President Ramchandra Paudel on Monday administered the oath of office to three ministers inducted by newly appointed caretaker Prime Minister Sushila Karki into her cabinet. Karki, 73, the landlocked nation’s first woman PM, assumed […]

Business

Bilateral trade: US negotiator reaching India tonight; talks tomorrow

September 15, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With back-channel efforts underway, US trade negotiator Brenden Lynch will hold bilateral trade talks in New Delhi on Tuesday, the media reported. Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for South and Central Asia Brendan Lynch, who will arrive in India on Monday night, will continue talks on a Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) with […]

Business

Nepal, again: Fearing wipeout, political parties slam Parliament dissolution, fresh polls

September 13, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid media reports that the new interim government, led by former Supreme Court Chief Justice Sushila Karki, could retire and ban six former prime ministers from contesting elections for life, Nepal’s political parties, fearing irrelevance, have slammed President Ram Chandra Paudel’s announcement to dissolve Parliament and hold fresh elections on […]

Business

Nepal: President Paudel dissolves Parliament; announces fresh elections in March 2026

September 13, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after swearing in former Supreme Court Chief Justice Sushila Karki as the Interim Prime Minister, Nepal’s President Ramchandra Paudel late on Friday dissolved Parliament and announced fresh elections to be held on March 5, 2026, the media reported. After a week of chaos, the Himalayan country is slowly […]

English

86 Killed after Boat Capsized in Congo

September 12, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Sept 12: At least 86 people have died after a motorised boat capsized in north-western Congo’s Equateur Province, state media reported on Friday. The accident occurred on Wednesday in Basankusu territory, according to the state news agency, which also reported that most of the victims were students. It was not immediately clear what […]

English

Nepal Unrest: Sushila Karki to Head Interim Government

September 12, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Sept 12: Ending the days of turmoil, the Nepal president’s office on Friday announced that the former chief justice Sushila Karki, who was the first woman chief justice of the Nepal Supreme Court, baceme the interim prime minister of the Himalayan nation. She was administered the oath of office on Friday […]

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Pakistan Called “State Sponsor of Terrorism” at UNHRC Meeting

September 12, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Sept 12: Pakistan was once again embarrassed at the United Nations for harbouring terrorists and was branded “another state sponsor of terrorism” along with Qatar. The dramatic moment unfolded during a United Nations Human Rights Commission discussion on Israel’s recent attack in Qatar that targeted Hamas’s political leadership. A human rights […]

Defence

Roving Periscope: Nepal’s leadership crisis continues as Gen Z shows some sanity

September 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid a free-for-all since Monday’s uprising, led by Generation Z mobs, and allegedly infiltrated by foreign influencers, Nepal on Friday stared at Himalayan uncertainties as youngsters clashed with each other on who should now lead Kathmandu, and then hit the streets on Friday to clean up the mess they created […]

Business

Brazil: Trump’s ‘friend’ ex-President Bolsonaro gets 27-year jail for coup attempt

September 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Recently, US President Donald Trump clashed with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, arm-twisted BRICS, accused it of alleged de-dollarization moves, and did whatever he could to protect his ‘friend’ former President Jair Messias Bolsonaro from being convicted of a coup attempt. It makes Bolsonaro, infamous as “Brazil’s […]