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Asia Power Index: Replacing Japan, India is third in Asia

September 25, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pipping Japan, India now ranks third in the Annual Asia Power Index, according to an Australian think tank. It has also underlined that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership has garnered greater international recognition. The index has cited economic growth, future potential, and diplomatic influence as key factors for India’s rise, […]

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Sri Lanka: President Dissanakaye appoints third woman PM of the island nation

September 24, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Sri Lanka’s new pro-China Marxist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who said his country doesn’t want to be sandwiched between India and China, on Tuesday appointed a woman as the next Prime Minister, Harini Amarasuriya, ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections. She is the 16th PM of the island nation and […]

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Ukraine: PM Modi meets Zelenskyy, reiterates a peaceful resolution to Russia war

September 24, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a third time in as many months, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has backed a peaceful resolution of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, which started on February 24, 2022, the media reported on Tuesday. PM Modi, who is in New York on the last leg of […]

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Roving Periscope: Over 900 Kuki infiltrators from Myanmar may reignite the Christian militancy in the Northeast

September 23, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Four months after the then Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed hinted at a ‘Western’ conspiracy to potentially cobble together a new Christian nation from the adjoining areas of Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar in the Northeastern region, her fears may be coming true with the reported infiltration of over 900 heavily-armed […]

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Semiconductors: President Biden, and PM Modi announce plans for a new plant in India

September 23, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The USA and India will work together on setting up a semiconductor fabrication plant in the South Asian nation, giving a boost to visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to bolster chip manufacturing in the country. The proposed plant will make infrared, gallium nitride, and silicon-carbide semiconductors, according to a White […]

Roving Periscope: GTRI junks Trump’s claims, says India no “tariff abuser”

September 20, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: On the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled US visit from September 21 to 23—where Donald Trump says he will meet the Indian leader, a “fantastic man”—a top research body has refuted the former President’s claims that India is a “tariff abuser.” Earlier this week, while campaigning in Michigan for […]

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Terror: FATF applauds India, cautions against threats from within and without

September 19, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Global anti-money laundering and terror financing watchdog, Financial Action Task Force (FATF), on Thursday, said the South Asian nation’s systems are “effective” but “major improvements” are also required to strengthen prosecution in these cases. The much-awaited, 368-page-long mutual evaluation report on India was released after the assessment was adopted by the […]

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Khalistan: In the Pannun case, the US court’s “unwarranted” notice to India

September 19, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after the US-Canadian citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who leads the so-called “Sikhs For Justice” (SFJ) outfit, applauded visiting Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his remarks on the Indian Sikhs, a US court on Wednesday issued summons to India in a “plot to murder” the Khalistani secessionist, designated as a terrorist. […]

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Economy: US Fed rate cut may have muted impact on India, says CEA Nageswaran

September 19, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The impact of the US Federal Reserve’s rate cut might be muted in India as much of it was already priced in, Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran said on Thursday. The US Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday voted to cut the federal funds rate target range by 50 basis […]

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Roving Periscope: MS chief warns of ‘foreign interference’ on eve of US polls

September 19, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid this year’s Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had, in a TV interview, disclosed that some ‘foreigners’ were not only ‘interested’ in the Indian parliamentary elections but also ‘interfering’ in it. Now, Microsoft Corporation’s President Brad Smith has warned of possible meddling by foreign state actors in the final […]