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US Tariff Threat: India Mulling Options to Withdraw from Chabahar Port Project

January 16, 2026 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 16: India is mulling various options on its engagement in the development of the strategically-located Chabahar port in Iran against the backdrop of the Trump administration threatening a 25% additional tariff on countries doing business with Tehran. India is a major partner in development of the Chabahar port, located in the Sistan-Balochistan […]

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242 Betting and Gambling Websites Blocked

January 16, 2026 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 16: The Centre on Friday blocked 242 illegal betting and gambling website links as part of increased enforcement actions following the passage of the Online Gaming Act, government sources said. They said action taken on Friday reflected the Government’s commitment to protect users especially youth, and to curb financial and social harm […]

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Family Legacies, Reunions Fail to Impress Urban Voters in Maharashtra

January 16, 2026 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 16: Family legacies, splits and reunions after years, appear to be in a shambles in Maharashtra with results of the civic elections show that the voters were not impressed with divergent branches coming together after long gaps. Maharashtra’s complicated political space took a turn ahead of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation […]

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BJP-led “Mahayuti” Sweeping Maharashtra Civic Elections, Thackerays out of BMC, Pawars Faded out in Pune

January 16, 2026 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 16: The BJP-led “Mahayuti” is all set to sweep the civil elections across Maharashtra including the most prestigious and Asia’s richest civic body the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and changing the state’s political equations virtually throwing to the wayside the parties that hitherto ruled supreme in their respective areas. The […]

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India-EU trade deal: “Its Mother of All Deals,” says Piyush Goyal

January 16, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz indicated that the much-awaited India-European Union trade deal is likely in the coming weeks, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said it would be the “mother of all deals.” Since 2014, India has finalized seven trade agreements. The proposed India-EU free trade […]

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Roving Periscope: As he prepares for war (s), Trump ‘gets’ Peace Prize!

January 16, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Finally, he got it, through a circuitous route though, even as he reportedly prepares for American wars in Iran, Greenland et al. As in other matters, he scarcely cares for the Nobel Institute of its Committee which recently said the Peace Prize cannot change hands. “Wonderful gesture,” an overjoyed Donald […]

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Economy: IMF calls India a global growth engine, may upgrade outlook soon

January 16, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Ahead of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s General Budget for the fiscal 2026-27, to be tabled in Parliament on February 1, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called India a key growth engine for global growth as it prepares for a likely upgrade of the South Asia nation’s outlook by January-end. […]

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Four Astronauts Return from ISS before Schedule

January 15, 2026 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 15: After the first ever medical evacuation in the orbital lab’s history, four International Space Station crew members splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, NASA footage showed. A video feed from NASA showed the capsule carrying American astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov and Japanese astronaut […]

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Top LeT Operative Admits its Muridke Headquarter Destroyed in Operation Sindoor, being Re-Build

January 15, 2026 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Jan 15: In a stunning public admission that cuts through years of denials and diplomatic doublespeak, the commander of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Hafiz Abdul Rauf, has acknowledged that India’s Operation Sindoor delivered a devastating blow to the terror group’s nerve centre in Muridke, razing what he described as its headquarters at […]

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BMC Exit Poll: BJP-led Mahayuti Likely to Sweep Mumbai Corporation

January 15, 2026 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 15: Most of the exit polls have projected a big win for the BJP-led Mahayuti, with Uddhav and Raj Thackeray’s alliance at second spot and Congress trailing at third. The voting has concluded for the Maharashtra civic polls across 29 municipal corporations, including the prestigious Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), on […]