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Jan Suraaj Party Promises Not to Join any Party or Alliance Before or After Bihar Elections

November 1, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Nov 1: The Jan Suraaj Party launched by the poll strategist-turned politician Prashant Kishor will not ally with any party or alliance before or after the Bihar Assembly elections, its founder-president Prashant Kishor said on Saturday. Mr Kishor gave the promise in writing to the senior journalists of a media house […]

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9 Killed in Stampede in “Mini Tirupati” Temple in Andhra Pradesh

November 1, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Nov 1: At least nine people, including eight women and a child, were killed and scores of others injured, many of them critically, in a stampede at the newly-constructed Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple, also known as “Mini Tirupati,” in Kashibugga in Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh following heavy rush early in […]

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Roving Periscope: ‘80% of Pakistan’s agriculture depends on waters from India!’

November 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Eighty percent of agricultural land irrigation in Pakistan depends entirely on water from the Indus River system, an Australian think tank has said. Australia’s Sydney-based nonprofit Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), one of the world’s most respected think tanks, just dropped a ‘water bomb’ Pakistan has been fearing for […]

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Ukraine war: Indian refiners prepare to buy less Russian crude

November 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With geoeconomics becoming a tool of geopolitics, India’s oil processors, the top buyers of seaborne crude from Russia, have been weighing up their options since the US last week blacklisted two of Russia’s biggest fuel producers, Rosneft PJSC and Lukoil PJSC, the media reported on Saturday. War economics is strange. […]

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Deepawali bonanza: Festival demand lifts GST collection 4.6% to Rs. 1.96 lakh crore in October

November 1, 2025 revoi editor

  Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: India’s gross GST collection rose 4.6 percent year-on-year to Rs. 1.96 lakh crore in October 2025, buoyed by festive spending spree, despite a broad GST rate cut on 375 items, the media reported on Saturday. Goods and Services Tax (GST) rates on 375 items, including kitchen staples to electronics […]

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India Keeping Close Watch on Movements of Chinese Vessels in Indian Ocean Region

October 31, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Oct 31: The Indian Navy is keeping a close and continuous watch on every Chinese vessel that enters the Indian Ocean Region, including naval and research ships, Vice Chief of the Naval Staff Vice-Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan said on Friday. “We are aware of what they are doing, when they come in, and when […]

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India Reverses Suspension of Pilgrim-Exchange with Pakistan, First Sikh Jatha to Travel to Pakistan

October 31, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Oct 31: Even as the first “Jatha” of Sikh pilgrims has received clearance from both the governments of India and Pakistan for pilgrimage to Sikh shrines in Pakistan, including Nankana Sahib, next week, confusions continued to prevail in the government corridor in Delhi whose decision it was to stop and then […]

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NDA Releases Bihar Manifesto, Promises One Crore Jobs, Carry out Skill-Census

October 31, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Oct 31: The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Friday released a joint manifesto for the Bihar Assembly elections. The 69-page manifesto details 25 promises by the NDA bloc. The manifesto was released in the presence of all senior leaders of the alliance. Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Samrat Choudhary, briefing the media […]

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BJP Accuses AAP, Kejriwal of “Another Sheeshmahal,” This one in Chandigarh

October 31, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Oct 31: The “Sheeshmahal” controversy, widely seen as a key reason for the Aam Aadmi Party’s defeat in the Delhi elections earlier this year, is back again, this time to target the AAP’s government in Punjab, the only state the former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s party in power. In a […]

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Modi Takes Salute at the National Unity Day Parade, Blames Nehru for Creating Kashmir Problem

October 31, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Oct 31: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday claimed that the first Home Minister of India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel wanted to unite the entire Kashmir, just as he did with other princely states, into India, but the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru did not allow it to happen. “Sardar Patel […]

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