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Roving Periscope: WB Governor Bose’s 72-hour deadline to Mamata for Shahjahan’s arrest, or else…

February 27, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: West Bengal is hotting up for a possible President’s Rule. Last week, Rekha Sharma, Chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW), after visiting the controversial battleground of Sandeshkhali in West Bengal, hinted that she could recommend the President’s Rule in the restive state. On Tuesday, more developments indicate this […]

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Business

Cough syrup: Uzbekistan sentences Indian to 20 years in prison for 68 deaths

February 27, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Amid controversies surrounding Indian medicines exported to other countries, Uzbekistan on Monday sentenced an Indian national to a 20-year jail term for his alleged role in the death of 68 children after they consumed ‘contaminated’ cough syrups. Raghvendra Pratap Singh and 20 other people linked to the case were handed […]

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Business

Ganganyaan mission: PM Modi reveals names of 4 Indian astronaut-designates

February 27, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: A day after ISRO Chairman S. Somanath said India is planning to send its crewed mission to the Moon by 2040, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday revealed the names of four astronaut-designates selected for the prestigious Gaganyaan mission. Gaganyaan is India’s crewed orbital spacecraft intended to be the formative […]

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Business

War against Ukraine: Russia has discharged Indian “helpers”, says MEA

February 26, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Monday said several Indians who went to Russia as “helpers” but were allegedly drafted with the Russian Army fighting in Ukraine, have already been discharged. It said the early discharge of Indians from the Russian Army is a matter of top priority. Rejecting […]

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Elections

Gyanvapi: Allahabad HC rejects Muslims’ plea to stop Hindus’ puja

February 26, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court on Monday dismissed an appeal filed by the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee, which looks after the affairs of the mosque, challenging the Varanasi district court’s order to allow puja (prayers) in the southern cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque in the Kashi Vishwanath Temple complex in Varanasi. […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Iranian army kills wanted terrorist—inside Pakistan, again

February 24, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: A month after it conducted a military operation in Baluchistan against Sunni terrorists hiding there, the Iranian military conducted another operation in Pakistani territory and killed Ismael Shahbakhsh, the terror group commander of Jaish al-Adl, and some other terrorists, the media reported. Pakistan is yet to respond to this latest […]

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Defence

Haldwani violence: Key accused and mastermind Abdul Malik arrested in Delhi

February 24, 2024 revoi editor

New Delhi: The Uttarakhand Police on Saturday arrested Abdul Malik, the key accused and mastermind in the recent violence in the Haldwani district of the Himalayan state, from Delhi. At least five persons were killed and more than a dozen wounded. The violence broke out on February 8 when Mailk gathered a huge mob after […]

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Business

Politics: 36% of RS candidates declared criminal cases against themselves!

February 24, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Are our lawmakers also lawbreakers? Election rights body Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has revealed that 36 percent of Rajya Sabha candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves while the average assets of candidates analyzed stood at Rs 127.81 crore. The ADR and the National Election Watch analyzed the self-sworn […]

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Business

Terror-funding: FATF removes the UAE from the “gray list”

February 24, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: In a quick turnaround, the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global watchdog probing money laundering and terror funding, on Friday, removed the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from its dirty money list. India can now heave a sigh of relief because Pakistan-sponsored terror gangs were allegedly getting their dirty […]

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Elections

LS polls: AAP, Cong to share seats in Delhi, other states—minus Punjab

February 24, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Taking a U-turn from what it did a decade ago—launching a nationwide agitation to dislodge the “corrupt” Congress-led UPA government—the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday announced a seat-sharing formula for Delhi and some other states with the same Grand Old Party (GOP) for the coming Lok Sabha elections—but not […]

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