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Nepal Unrest: Former PM’s House Set on Fire, His Wife Dies of Burn Injuries

September 9, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Sept 9: Nepal’s Gen-Z protests that led to the end of the KP Sharma Oli government in the Himalayan nation, had left behind many brutal incidents including burning to death of the wife of the former prime minister Jhalanath Khanal. The protesters trapped her in their home and set the house […]

Business

CPEC: China, Pakistan to form $ 7bn consortium for railway project

September 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Proving the hopefuls wrong, who read too much in the so-called ‘bonhomie’ between China and India during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit a week ago, Beijing and Islamabad have announced a USD 7 billion consortium for a railway project under the ongoing USD 60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). […]

Business

France: Fourth PM in a year quits; weakened, Macron to face polls in 2027

September 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: European Union’s largest country, France, has done it again. On Monday, the government of its fourth Prime Minister in a year collapsed after François Bayrou lost a parliamentary confidence vote, defeated by 364 to 194 in the National Assembly, plunging the country into political paralysis. Bayrou, the 74-year-old centrist, was […]

Business

Roving Periscope: In just 48 hours, Nepal apes Lanka—Oli resigns; may flee!

September 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In just two days of massive anti-government demonstrations by leaderless Generation Z youths, the Communist-led government collapsed in Nepal, its ministers resigned, and so did its highly unpopular, pro-China Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who, reports suggested, might follow President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled Sri Lanka in 2022 after a […]

English

Navarro at it Again, Calls India’s Purchase of Russian Oil “Blood Money”

September 8, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Sept 8: The US President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro fired another shot at Elon Musk-owned X on Monday, after it yet again showed “community notes” adding context to his claims about India’s purchase of Russian oil. These oil purchases have been cited as a reason by the US for imposing “penal” […]

English

Zelensky Supports US Imposing High Tariffs on India

September 8, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Sept 8: Even as a federal appeals court in the US last month ruled that Donald Trump overstepped presidential powers by imposing hefty duties, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky supported the imposition of tariffs on countries like India maintaining economic ties with Russia despite New Delhi stepped up its diplomatic efforts […]

Elections

Roving Periscope: Nepal going the Sri Lankan way? 14 killed over social media ban, corruption

September 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after India and China rejected Nepal’s territorial claims over Lipulekh, and Kathmandu banned social media, at least 14 people were reported killed and over 200 wounded in police firing on Monday as thousands of angry youths hit the streets and some even tried to storm parliament in the national […]

Business

Deal: India and Israel sign BIT to boost economic ties

September 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid US President Donald Trump’s trade and tariff tantrums and mounting global geopolitical uncertainties, India and Israel on Monday signed a reciprocal bilateral investment treaty (BIT) to boost their economic ties, the media reported. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her Israeli counterpart Bezalel Smotrich signed the agreement in the national […]

Business

Trump’s tariffs: If continued, India’s GDP may shrink by 0.5%, says the CEA

September 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: If prolonged, US President Donald Trump’s 50 percent tariffs, which became effective on August 27, may shrink India’s GDP by 0.5 percent in the current financial year (2025-26), according to Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran, Chief Economic Advisor to the government. “I hope the additional penal tariff is a short-lived phenomenon,” […]

English

Modi “Deeply” Appreciates Trump’s “Positive Assessment” of Indo-US Relations

September 6, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Sept 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday “deeply” appreciated the US President Donald Trump’s “Positive assessment” of the India-U.S. partnership after the American leader hailed the “special” relationship between the two nations — remarks seen as an attempt to check the downturn in the ties. The Prime Minister’s comments on social media came […]