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Indonesia: As President flew to China, angry women protest against profligacy

September 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Furious at their lawmakers’ profligacy and alleged police brutality, angry women brandishing brooms and holding placards took out a protest rally outside Parliament in Jakarta in the Muslim-majority Indonesia on Wednesday, demanding reform, while their President flew to China to attend a military parade. Hundreds of women, dressed in pink, […]

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Pakistan: With Munir, Shehbaz in China, suicide bombers kill 14, injure 35 in Quetta

September 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi:  While Pakistan Army chief “Field Marshal” General Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in that order, are busy attending China’s Victory Day Parade and other sundry events during their six-day visit, and unprecedented floods are ravaging large parts of the broke country, unnamed terrorists killed at least 14 people […]

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Roving Periscope: China displays firepower—to friends, frenemies, and foes alike

September 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Pakistan lost badly in India’s Operation Sindoor in May 2025 but continues to claim ‘victory’—so much so that its Army chief, General Asim Munir, promoted himself as “Field Marshal” and hung other sundry medals on his uniform after emerging from his bunker. Don’t be surprised, therefore, if Islamabad starts ‘celebrating’ […]

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Earthquake: Search on for survivors after 1,400 deaths in Afghanistan

September 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The Taliban-controlled government said on Tuesday that a search operation is on to look for survivors of the Sunday night temblor that killed at least 1,400 and wounded over 3,000 in one of the deadliest earthquakes to hit Afghanistan in decades. The casualty count has mounted steadily since the 6.0-magnitude […]

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Roving Periscope: ‘To protect family’s businesses in Pak, Trump antagonized India,’ says Sullivan

September 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Accusing Donald Trump of pushing India into the Russia-China orbit, former US National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan has said America’s President has antagonized India to protect his family members’ business interests in Pakistan. The American brand is now in the toilet worldwide, he said. Trump jeopardized the USA’s carefully-cultivated […]

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Semicon India 2025: “We began late but nothing can stop us now,” says PM Modi

September 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday emphasized that although India started late in the field of semiconductors but nothing can stop it now. Addressing the inaugural session at Semicon India 2025, he expressed confidence that India is fast emerging from a back-end to a full-stack semiconductor nation, which will drive […]

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Technology: Vaishnaw presents first Made-in-India Vikram-32 chip to PM Modi

September 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: In a significant achievement in the field of high technology, Union Minister for Railways and Electronics & Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday presented the first Made-in-India, Vikram 32-bit processor chip to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the country is a lighthouse of stability in the current turbulent world. The […]

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Trump Claims India Offered Zero Tariff on US Imports, but Calls India-Us Trade “One-Sided Disaster”

September 1, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Sept 1: Within hours of the US Embassy in Delhi claimed the relationship between the two countries was “reaching new heights, the U.S. President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that India had offered to reduce tariffs on US goods to zero, suggesting the alleged offer had come very late, underlining that […]

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800 Killed, over 2,500 Injured in Massive Earthquake in Afghanistan

September 1, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Sept: At least 800 people have been killed, and 2,500 injured in a powerful earthquake after a strong earthquake and multiple aftershocks flattened homes in a remote, mountainous region in eastern Afghanistan, according to a Taliban government spokesperson. The earthquake struck just before midnight, shaking buildings from Kabul to neighbouring Pakistan’s […]

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Alaska: “Understandings” reached with Trump opens way for Ukraine peace, says Putin

September 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: He warned the US-led Europe and thanked India and China, on the ongoing war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that  “understandings” he reached with US President Donald Trump at a summit in August opened a way to peace in Ukraine, which he would discuss with leaders […]

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