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Economy: S&P retains 6.5% growth in FY26, says IT, GST rate changes to spur domestic demand

September 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government promoting swadeshi products and the Make-in-India movement for self-reliance, coupled with recent changes in income tax and GST rates, India is poised to register a 6.5 percent growth this financial year. Rating agency S&P Global on Tuesday maintained India’s economic forecast at 6.5 […]

Business

Roving Periscope: In the US, Jaishankar sets the tone for Goyal’s trade talks

September 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Monday met his US counterpart Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the sidelines of the 80th Summit of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, in what is seen as setting the tone for resumed bilateral trade and tariffs negotiations being led […]

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Divide-and-Rule: 108 years after supporting Israel, Britain recognizes Palestine!

September 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Britain set the ball rolling for the establishment of Israel in 1917 when its Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour declared support for a “national home for the Jewish people” in the Muslim-dominated Palestine, and to protect the rights of the existing non-Jewish communities, which proved difficult to implement and contributed to […]

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Cooking gas: On Navaratri, 25 lakh new free Ujjwala LPG connections, says Puri

September 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After reducing the GST rates on most items, the Centre announced on Monday, the first day of Navaratri, that it would provide 25 lakh new LPG connections under the PM Ujjwala Yojana, the media reported. Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri, on Monday, announced that the […]

Business

Roving Periscope: After H-1B visa fee hike, Britain and China woo global talents; NASSCOM cool

September 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With US President Donald Trump hiking the one-time H-1B visa fee to USD 100,000 for those seeking jobs, Britain and China have smelt an opportunity to attract global talents. But India’s NASSCOM said the visa fee hike will have only a marginal impact on Indian IT sector’s growth. According to […]

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H-1B visa: Fee hike will be America’s loss, India’s gain, says Kant

September 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Reacting to US President Donald Trump increasing the H-1B visa fee by 10-fold to USD 100,000 from September 21, India’s former NITI Aayog chief Amitabh Kant said on Saturday that the American move may turbocharge India’s growth while choking the US’s spirit of innovation. Kant highlighted that India’s finest doctors, […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump’s order may shrink US talent pool, and empower other countries!

September 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In his first remarks amid the uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump’s H-1B visa fee hike to USD 100,000, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday reiterated that “Our biggest enemy is the reliance on other countries.” The PM emphasised India’s need for self-reliance as President Trump increased the H-1B […]

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Bagram: The Taliban should decide on US return to the air base, says China

September 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid reports that the US is wooing the Taliban back into its fold and planning to re-establish its Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, to keep tabs on the Muslim-majority Xinjiang province of China and Central Asia, Beijing said Kabul should decide on this matter. China respects Afghanistan’s territorial integrity and […]

Defence

Roving Periscope: Space, cyber warfare new battlefields, says CDS Chauhan

September 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan on Friday said that India is taking policy initiatives for the development of equipment for space and cyber warfare, the new battlefields of technology-driven warfare. Addressing the East Tech symposium in Ranchi, Jharkhand, he said that strategic selection of weapons was […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Now, Pak, S. Arabia ink “defence pact”—against Iran?

September 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Saudi Arabia and self-styled nuclear-armed Pakistan, which just lost heavily against India in Operation Sindoor, have signed a mutual defense pact that defines any attack on either nation as an attack on both. But the motive and target behind the pact remains unclear. Some are seeing it as a key […]