English

English

Tussle in Mahagathbandhan Resolved, Tejashwi Yadav Named Chief Ministerial Face, Mukesh Sahani his Deputy

October 23, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Oct 23: Following much anticipation and multiple rounds of negotiation to resolve issues over seat sharing, the opposition “Mahagathbandhan” on Thursday named the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav as the chief ministerial of the grand alliance for the high-voltage state Assembly elections in Bihar. Mr Mukesh Sahani, the chief […]

Read more

Business

Crude: Trump clamps “tremendous” sanctions on key Russian oil cos

October 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Disappointed with all his efforts to end the Russian war in Ukraine producing zero results, US President Donald Trump has cancelled his likely meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Budapest, Hungary, and has instead slapped “tremendous” new sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, the media reported on […]

Read more

Business

Roving Periscope: After the UNGA, PM Modi to skip ASEAN Summit also

October 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Putting to rest speculations on a possible meeting with US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to skip the forthcoming summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the media reported on Thursday. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will likely attend the […]

Read more

English

NHRC Notices to Kerala, Tripura, Manipur for Assault on Journalists

October 22, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Oct 22: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday issued a notice to the Kerala, Tripura and Manipur governments over the alleged attack on three journalists at different places in the States in the past three months. The commission has asked the Director Generals of Police of the three States, calling for detailed […]

Read more

English

IT Rules to be Amended to Increase “Accountability” for Centre, State Governments

October 22, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Oct 22: The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) will amend social media takedown rules to add more “accountability” to officers sending notices to social media companies over content on their platforms, officials said on Wednesday. The new safeguards will be introduced by way of an amendment to the Information Technology […]

Read more

English

Saudi Arabia Scraps “Kafala” System, Millions of Indian Workers to Benefit

October 22, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Oct 22: Bowing down to international pressures and human rights organisations and buoyed by its international ambitions, Saudi Arabia has finally confirmed scrapping of the controversial “Kafala” labour sponsoring system in vogue for over 70 years benefitting millions of labourers from other countries, the largest chunk of them being Indians. Reviled […]

Read more

English

Karnataka Leadership Change: Yathindra Projects Jarkiholi as Siddaramaiah’s Successor, Not Shivakumar

October 22, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Oct 22: Further fuelling speculations about leadership change in Karnataka, Yathindra, the son of the chief minister Siddaramaiah, in a statement that set the cat among the pigeons said on Tuesday that his 77-year old father was on the “final phase of his political career” and hinted that he might promote […]

Read more

English

Gehlot – Lalu to Iron out Differences in Mahagathbandhan

October 22, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Oct 22: As tensions simmered within the Mahagathbandhan over the failure to arrive at a formal seat-sharing pact for the Bihar Assembly elections, senior Congress leader and former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot met the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday apparently with the mandate to defuse […]

Read more

Bollywood

France: The Louvre Museum in Paris reopens 3 days after $102 mn heist

October 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris, central to novelist Dan Brown’s blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, and a Hollywood film of the same title, reopened on Wednesday, three days after a sensational, daylight robbery in which criminals stole eight of the nine targeted items, worth USD 102 million, and disappeared […]

Read more

Business

Environment: India ninth globally in total forest area, says FAO

October 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With large-scale afforestation and community-led forest protection efforts, India has climbed to the ninth spot globally in total forest area and retained its third rank in annual forest area gain, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said. In this respect, India follows Australia, the Democratic Republic of the […]

Read more