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Enemy No. 1: Alexei Navalny, President Putin’s worst critic, dies in Russian jail

February 16, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Prominent Russian leader Alexei Navalny, who was in jail since January 2021 because of his trenchant opposition to President Vladimir Putin, died on Friday, the media reported. His death came a month before the 71-year-old President Putin’s “election” for the fifth term. Russia is scheduled to go to the polls […]

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Roving Periscope: After 4 months, IDF arrests 20 Hamas terrorists from Gaza hospital

February 16, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After nearly 30,000 deaths in the last four months of the ongoing Gaza War, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Friday claimed they have arrested from a Gaza hospital more than 20 Hamas terror suspects involved in the October 7 attack on the Jewish state. “The troops located weapons inside […]

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Pakistan: SC tells ‘govt’ to commit that the Army runs no businesses!

February 15, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pakistan’s all-powerful Army, which has run the troubled country unchecked for most of the years since 1947 and has lost all wars it fought and won all the elections it did not contest, is passing through bure din (bad days) or a rough patch. After its friend-turned-foe Imran Khan gave […]

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Roving Periscope: Germany replaces aging Japan as the 4th largest economy

February 15, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Germany replacing it as the third-largest world economy, Japan has now slipped to the fourth place in the global pecking order, after it contracted in the last quarter of 2023. Until overtaken by China in 2011, Japan’s economy was the second-largest after the USA. Japan’s nominal GDP totaled USD […]

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Ukraine: If Putin backs off now, he could be assassinated, says Elon Musk

February 14, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Elon Musk, the world’s second wealthiest man now, has said Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot back off now from the ongoing war in Ukraine. “If he does so, he could be assassinated,” said the Tesla Inc., and SpaceX chief. “There is pressure on Putin to see the fight through…If he […]

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Roving Periscope: With PPP twisting his arm, Nawaz nominates Shehbaz as the next PM

February 14, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Since Mian Muhammed Nawaz Sharif remained in self-exile in London (2018-2023), the Pakistan Army selected his brother Shehbaz to replace friend-turned-foe Imran Khan as the Prime Minister in April 2022. Now, as the Sharif Senior cannot become the PM, he has selected his younger brother Shehbaz to succeed him. According […]

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Ahlan Modi: Bad weather threatens the Indian PM’s events in the UAE

February 13, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the United Arab Emirates (UAE) witnessing heavy rains ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to participate in various programs, including Ahlan Modi (Hello Modi), the inclement weather threatened to mar his two-day visit to the Arab nation that has attracted a lot of global attention because of […]

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UPI: India built the world’s best digital economy, says Nobel Laureate Spence

February 13, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Emphasizing that the world is experiencing a “kind of regime change in the global economy,” Nobel Laureate economist A. Michael Spence has hailed India for building the planet’s best digital economy and financial architecture. Noting that India is a major economy with the highest potential growth rate right now, he […]

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Roving Periscope: Pakistan Army tries to win the polls its selected politicians lost!

February 13, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Pakistanis famously joke that their all-powerful army has never won a war and never lost an election! They are seeing it repeat once again. And in the Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, the headquarters of the Pakistan Army, the man the boots love to hate is laughing aloud! For, even […]

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Espionage case: Freed, Indian Navy veterans return home from Qatar

February 12, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Demonstrating the triumph of some deft diplomacy and business strategy adopted by India at the highest levels, seven of eight former Indian Navy officials, who were sentenced to death by a Qatari court on charges of espionage last year, returned home after being freed on Sunday. The Ministry of External […]