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Roving Periscope: Army-herded old goats gang up to keep Imran’s younger flock away from power

February 12, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Despite all the odds, former cricket star-turned-politician Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi has effectively turned the tables not only on the hitherto all-powerful Pakistani Army but also on the Old Guards in traditional political parties. For, even after remaining behind wars since August 2023, watching his political outfit’s near disintegration, and […]

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Economy: FM lambasts UPA for ‘family first’ policies, leaving India in ‘dire straits’ by 2014

February 9, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: A day after tabling the White Paper in Parliament, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday lambasted the previous Congress-led UPA government for its mismanagement of the economy, saying the party put “family first” in all policies and left the country in “dire straits” by 2014, but it is now lecturing […]

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Ukraine: With the war against Russia entering its third year, Zelenskyy sacks ‘Iron General’

February 9, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Imagine a professional comedian, now a President, sacking a professional soldier, amid a war that is entering its third year in two weeks! Like changing the horse midstream. This is what happened in Ukraine where an allegedly insecure, even jealous, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy replaced the country’s popular ‘Iron General’, Valeriy […]

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Roving Periscope: Even after sham ‘elections,’ jailed former Pak PM Imran Khan may have the last laugh!

February 9, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: With its largest organized political outfit—Pakistan Army—holding sham ‘elections’ to the National Assembly on Thursday, and its sponsored prime ministerial hopeful Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif’s political outfit not getting the ‘desired’ results, the troubled South Asian nation seemed heading for fresh uncertainties. Despite the military’s all-out efforts to crush its […]

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Tourism: As the Maldives loses Indian visitors, Lakshadweep to get Rs. 3,600 crores for infra upgradation

February 8, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Nearly a month after Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted India’s immense tourism potential and urged tourists to visit Lakshadweep Islands—which irritated the pro-Chinese Mohamed Muizzu government in neighboring Maldives—the government has earmarked Rs. 3,600 crores for the development and upgradation of tourism infrastructure in the archipelago known for its pristine […]

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Energy: India to become the largest global oil demand growth driver by 2030

February 7, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: India is emerging as the largest driver of global oil demand growth until 2030, dislodging top importer China, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). India, currently the world’s third-largest oil importer and consumer, is on track to post an oil demand increase of almost 1.2 million barrels per day […]

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Roving Periscope: Like Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka, anti-Indian Muizzu drags the Maldives into Chinese debt-traps

February 7, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: How to ruin your own country’s economy? Look at the Maldives which is treading the path Sri Lanka followed in the last few years by eagerly walking straight into exciting Chinese debt traps after it found India’s good neighborliness ‘boring.’ The current Maldivian President, Mohamed Muizzu, who came to power […]

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LNG: India inks $78 bn pact for 20 years, saves $6 bn on Qatar deal renewal

February 6, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: In a significant and long-term development, India on Tuesday signed a USD 78 billion deal to extend LNG imports from Qatar by another 20 years until 2048, at rates lower than current prices. Petronet LNG Ltd, India’s biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) importer, in a statement, said it has signed […]

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Pakistan: Army-controlled Islamabad on edge as Thursday’s NS polls loom amid terror strikes

February 6, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Reaping in the country what it has sown outside for decades, Pakistan, which faced a spate of terror attacks on Monday, was on edge as it limped towards the crucial National Assembly elections on February 8 amid fears of more strikes at a time the restive South Asian country facing […]

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Energy: India expects $67 bn investment in 5 to 6 years, says PM Modi

February 6, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India is expecting huge investments to the tune of nearly USD 67 billion in the next five to six years in the energy sector, and invited investors to participate in the country’s growth story. Inaugurating the second edition of India Energy Week in […]

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