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Hasina: Bangladesh asks India to extradite the deposed PM to Dhaka

December 23, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Under pressure from Islamist outfits, who now control the interim government led by “Chief Advisor” Muhammed Yunus, Bangladesh on Monday officially asked India to send back the deposed Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, who has been staying in the country since August. Dhaka-based International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued arrest […]

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Family-as-State: Now, Bashar’s British-born wife files for divorce in a Russian court!

December 23, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For a former medical practitioner Bashar al-Assad, the ophthalmologist-turned- Syrian dictator, it may be a double whammy. He not only lost power and pelf in Damascus two weeks ago, and fled to Russia for asylum, he may now lose even his family: his wife of 24 years has filed for […]

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Roving Periscope: ‘I, not Elon Musk, will be the POTUS,’ asserts Donald Trump!

December 23, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Who have the Americans elected as their 47th President? Donald Trump, of course, who was elected for a second non-consecutive term of four years (2025-28) in November and is now preparing to return to the White House on January 20, 2025. His assertion that he will start inauguration next month […]

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Christmas: Pope Francis reprimands staff for ‘gossip, an evil’

December 21, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the countdown to December 25 began, Pope Francis, 88, in his annual Christmas message, reprimanded his staff for ‘gossiping,’ the media reported on Saturday. During the Group of Seven (G-7) Summit in Italy, in June 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the Pope and invited him to visit India. […]

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Russia’s 9/11: Towering infernos as Ukraine’s drones fly into Kazan buildings

December 21, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Even as Russians started preparing to welcome Christmas, US President-elect Donald Trump hoped for a ceasefire, and Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a ‘positive response’ to it, Ukraine allegedly shot off at least eight drones in rapid succession into Kazan City’s residential towers on Friday, setting some of them on […]

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Roving Periscope: Now, even Raghuram Rajan slams UPA govt for NPAs; praises Jaitley

December 21, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the ongoing season of discontent against India’s Grand Old Party (GOP), even former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, known for his proximity to the Congress leadership, has slammed the UPA government (2004-14) for corruption and mounting debts, and applauded the next Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for endorsing clean-up measures in […]

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26/11: The US may extradite Tahawwur Rana to India to face the law

December 20, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the US government urging the Supreme Court to dismiss a petition filed by Tahawwur Rana, a key mastermind convict in the November 26, 2008, terror attack in Mumbai, the likelihood of his extradition to India has brightened, the media reported on Friday. Rana, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin, […]

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Roving Periscope: Open to Ukraine talks, compromise with Trump, Putin says

December 20, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Already war-fatigued and with the universal law of diminishing returns making his own stay in power vulnerable, Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to climb down on Ukraine and make a ‘compromise’ after a potential meeting with Donald Trump, whose second non-consecutive term as the 47th US President will begin […]

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Remittances: India tops the world with a $129 billion inflow in 2024

December 19, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With an estimated inflow of remittances worth USD 129 billion in 2024, India has topped the world, the World Bank said on Thursday. The growth rate of remittances this year is estimated to be 5.8 percent, compared to 1.2 percent in 2023, the media reported. India was the topmost recipient […]

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Law: French pervert gets 20 years in jail for plotting his aged wife’s mass rape

December 19, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A French court on Thursday sentenced Dominique Pelicot, 72, the perverted former husband of mass rape case victim, his ex-wife Gisele Pelicot, to 20 years in jail, the media reported. Pelicot was convicted of drugging and inviting dozens of strangers online for nearly a decade to rape his ex-wife, Gisele […]