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GST Rates Cut Making it Consumer-Friendly, Relief for Masses

September 3, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Sept 3: Promising a leaner, more consumer-friendly regime by making everyday essentials affordable while keeping luxury indulgences firmly in the high-tax bracket, the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday announced the biggest rate overhaul since the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in 2017, rolling out a simplified […]

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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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Over 400 Expanding Glacial Lakes Need Continuous Monitoring: CWC

September 2, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Sept 2: More than 400 glacial lakes within India are showing worrying expansion trends and demand vigorous monitoring for disaster purposes, the Central Water Commission (CWC) has revealed in its latest monitoring report. In the monthly monitoring report of Glacial Lakes and Water Bodies for June 2025 which was recently made public, the […]

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Pakistan Minister Advises People to “Store” Flood Waters!

September 2, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Sept 2: An act of madness or that his remarks may have bearing with India keeping in abeyance the Indus Water Treaty (IWT). As Pakistan reels under one of the worst flood crises in recent history, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has stirred a storm with his unusual suggestion on how to cope with […]

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Russia to Further Reduce its Ural Grade Oil by $3 to $4 to India

September 2, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Sept 2: The price of Russian oil has dropped to a discount of $3 to $4 per barrel for India, as New Delhi still bears the brunt of US tariffs. According to some media reports, the price of Russia’s Ural grade is being offered at a lower price for cargoes that will load […]

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K Kavitha Suspended by her Father from BRS

September 2, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Sept 2: In a significant political development and an unsparing action, the Telangana MLC K Kavitha, daughter of the former chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, was on Tuesday suspended from her party Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) by the party president and her father for alleged anti-party activities. The suspension order was issued against […]

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Maratha Quota Agitation Ends after Maharashtra Government Accepted Quota Demand

September 2, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Sept 2: The five-day long agitation for Maratha quota reservation by the Maratha activist Manoj Jarange ended on Tuesday with the Maharashtra government accepting two of his key demands of considering Maratha community as “Kunbis,” a OBC category, and providing them reservation in education and government jobs. Maratha community constituting about […]

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Expletive against his Mother: Modi Lash out at Congress, RJD, Opposition Slam Using Mother for Politics

September 2, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Sept 2: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi lashed out at the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) for the alleged use of some abusive language against his mother by some participants in Rahul Gandhi’s just-concluded “Voter Adhikar Yatra” in poll-bound Bihar, while the opposition slammed at him for making “political […]