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Markets: Amid global chaos, resilient Indian stocks rebound by 1.29%

June 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Despite multiple global uncertainties, the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, and fears of a wider war in the Middle East, Indian stocks showed their resilience on Friday and markets snapped a three-day losing run. Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded sharply by over 1 percent after sliding for […]

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Roving Periscope: Dreaming of a Nobel Peace Prize, Trump delays his Iran attack!

June 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Donald Trump, who has long lamented that his predecessor Barack Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize immediately after he became the US President in 2009— “And he had no idea why he got it!”—can now wait for 15 days to convince Iran to scrap its nuclear program and to persuade […]

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Israel-Iran air war enters second week as Europe pushes diplomacy

June 20, 2025 revoi editor

Israel and Iran’s air war entered a second week on Friday, and European officials sought to draw Tehran back to the negotiating table after President Donald Trump said any decision on potential U.S. involvement would be made within two weeks. Israel began attacking Iran last Friday, saying it aimed to prevent its long-time enemy from […]

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US top diplomat Rubio discussed Israel-Iran war with key partners

June 20, 2025 revoi editor

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met British Foreign Minister David Lammy on Thursday and held separate calls with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot and Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani to discuss the war between U.S. ally Israel and its regional rival Iran. KEY QUOTES The U.S. State Department said […]

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US court lets Trump retain control of California National Guard for now

June 20, 2025 revoi editor

A U.S. appeals court let Donald Trump on Thursday retain control over California’s National Guard while the state’s Democratic governor proceeds with a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Republican president’s use of the troops to quell protests and unrest in Los Angeles. A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of […]

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SpaceX Starship rocket explodes in setback to Musk’s Mars mission

June 20, 2025 revoi editor

SpaceX’s massive Starship spacecraft exploded into a dramatic fireball during testing in Texas late on Wednesday, the latest in a series of setbacks for billionaire Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program. The explosion occurred around 11 p.m. local time while Starship was on a test stand at its Brownsville, Texas, Starbase while preparing for the tenth […]

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Russian President Putin offers to mediate the Israel-Iran conflict

June 19, 2025 revoi editor

New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to mediate to end the conflict between Iran and Israel. While speaking at a round table session at an international economic forum. He stated that Moscow could help with negotiating with Tehran to pursue peace, an atomic program, and assuaging Israeli security concerns. Mr. Putin said he shared […]

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Canada: Khalistan activists a “threat to national security”

June 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney in Canada to reset bilateral relations, Ottawa admitted, for the first time, that the Khalistani activists on its soil were a “threat to national security.” A calibrated Canadian report called Sikh separatists engaged in violent extremism […]

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Roving Periscope: Munir proposes Nobel for Trump, who asks him to pay the bill!

June 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Self-declared dealmaker–“I have been making deals all my life!—businessman-turned-US President Donald Trump hosted a working lunch for Pakistan’s Army chief ‘Field Marshal’ Asim Munir on Wednesday, said he was “honored to meet this smart man,” and then asked him to pay the bill, as he sought access to the bankrupt […]

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Operation Sindhu: Flight carrying 110 Indian citizens evacuated from Iran arrives in Delhi

June 19, 2025 revoi editor

The first flight carrying 110 Indian citizens, including 90 students from Jammu and Kashmir, arrived in New Delhi on Thursday after being successfully evacuated from Iran amid the escalating military conflict in the Middle East. All the evacuees were flown to the capital aboard IndiGo flight 6E 9487. Union Minister of State for External Affairs, […]