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Roving Periscope: Amid Trump-scare worldwide, China treads cautiously

November 16, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Expect a paradigm shift in geopolitical discourse after January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump becomes the US President again. While Europe is trembling with fear, a scared China is treading cautiously. “China has no plan to surpass or replace the United States,” Beijing’s Ambassador to Washington Xie Feng said in […]

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Indo-Pacific Region: India a key US partner, says State Department

November 15, 2024 revoi editor

New Delhi: Ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term at the White House, beginning in January 2025, the US has said India remains its key partner in the Indo-Pacific Region. India continues to be a vital partner for global and regional stability, the State Department said on Thursday. The US administration, under the outgoing President […]

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Sri Lanka: Sans Opposition, Anura’s leftist coalition wins landslide in parliament

November 15, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Sri Lanka’s new Marxist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s leftist coalition won a landslide victory in snap legislative elections, results showed on Friday, as the traditional Opposition seemed ‘dead’ and voters repudiated unpopular establishment parties they blamed for triggering an economic crisis since 2022. Dissanayake, a self-avowed Marxist, swept the September […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump-panicked, Europe’s last appeal to Biden to rush Ukraine aid

November 15, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Donald Trump’s second inauguration on January 25, 2025, expected to trigger geopolitical temblors, Europe has made a last-ditch appeal to outgoing US President Joe Biden to rush the promised American support for Ukraine to strengthen Kyiv’s position to the extent possible before the Democrat’s presidential term ends in the […]

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Economy: In a ‘sweet spot,’ India’s GDP growing at 7.2% in 2024, says Moody’s

November 15, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi emplanes for Brazil to attend the G-20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro (November 18-19), global rating agency Moody’s has said the Indian economy is in a ‘sweet spot’, and forecast a 7.2 percent growth in the calendar year 2024. The fastest-growing emerging economy, India, […]

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The West: The wealth gap between the US and Europe rises, says IMF

November 14, 2024 revoi editor

New Delhi: The cross-border challenges in the West are rising and widening the gap between the output of Europeans and Americans since the 1990s, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. The European Union’s GDP per capita, measured with purchasing power parity, is now only about 72 percent of that of the United States, an […]

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Roving Periscope: Now, a “Khalistan” in North America?

November 14, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Despite decades of terror and bloodshed, they couldn’t do it in India, nor in Pakistan which supported and sponsored them. Now, the frustrated pro-Khalistanis may have found a new place, Canada, to set up a Khalistan, according to the media reports on Friday. It’s a deja wu moment for Canada, […]

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Rewarding a turncoat: Trump names Hindu woman Tulsi Gabbard as DNI

November 14, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: If you think political turncoats in ‘weaker’ democracies alone get rewarded, think again. Donald Trump has also rewarded Tulsi Gabbard, whose parents converted from Christianity to Hinduism and raised her as a Hindu–she is only three weeks old in the Republican Party–with a plum posting in his second shot at […]

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First Appointment by Taliban in India, Acting Consul at Mumbai Consulate

November 13, 2024 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Nov 13: In its first appointment in India, the Taliban regime has appointed a young Afghan student in India, Ikramuddin Kamil, as Acting Consul at Afghanistan’s Consulate in Mumbai. This is the first appointment by the Taliban – which New Delhi does not recognise – in India since it took power in Afghanistan […]

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West Asia: Saudis a “very important” factor in regional stability, says EAM

November 13, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Wednesday emphasized that Saudi Arabia plays a key role in maintaining stability in West Asia (the Middle East). In his opening remarks at the second meeting of the Political, Security, Social and Cultural Committee of the India-Saudi Arabia Strategic Partnership Council with Saudi Arabia’s […]