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Pakistan: India won’t take first step to normalize ties, says Shashi Tharoor

August 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Veteran diplomat and former United Nations Undersecretary-General Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday that India will not take the first step to normalize bilateral relations with Pakistan. Speaking at the launch of a book, Whither India-Pakistan Relations Today?, an anthology edited by former ambassador Surendra Kumar, he said India no longer […]

Business

Energy: China increases Russian oil imports; India cuts down

August 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While India has recently cut down on the import of Russian crude because of reduced discounts, China has increased oil import, the media reported on Wednesday. China’s oil refineries have placed new orders for Russian crude that will be shipped from ports that typically supply India, as demand from the […]

Business

Education: Foreign student arrivals to the US plunge 46% as visa woes mount

August 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the Trump administration’s controversial policies wreaking havoc within the US and without, the number of visitors to America arriving on student visas plunged sharply in July, falling year-on-year for a fourth straight month, the media reported on Tuesday. The declines were most pronounced from Asia, the largest international education […]

Business

Ukraine: No breakthrough, yet—Trump proposes, but Putin unwilling to dispose!

August 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It wasn’t unexpected, after all, given what happened in Alaska on August 15. US President Donald Trump returned to the White House, delighted after meeting his ‘old friend,’ Russian President Vladimir Putin. And Putin—some claimed it was one of his multiple body doubles!—also returned home without yielding an inch and, […]

Business

Roving Periscope: China smiles; ready to provide rare earths, fertilizers to India

August 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As India told the visiting Chinese Foreign Minister that differences must not become disputes, Beijing has agreed to address New Delhi’s requirements for rare earths, fertilizers, and tunnel-boring machines, the media reported on Tuesday. Minister for External Affairs S. Jaishankar, who led the Indian team to discuss various bilateral issues […]

International

Putin briefs PM Modi on Alaska talks with Trump

August 19, 2025 revoi editor

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sharing his assessment of last week’s meeting with US President Donald Trump in Alaska. During the conversation, PM Modi reiterated India’s consistent call for a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine conflict and New Delhi’s support for all diplomatic efforts. “Thank my friend, President […]

English

Hamas accepts proposed deal for ceasefire with Israel and hostage release, Egyptian source says

August 19, 2025 revoi editor

Hamas has agreed to a 60-day ceasefire proposal with Israel that includes the return of half the hostages held in Gaza and Israel’s release of some Palestinian prisoners, an Egyptian official told Reuters on Monday. Senior Hamas official Basem Naim confirmed the group’s approval on Facebook. Hamas said other Palestinian factions informed mediators of their […]

Business

China: FM Wang’s Delhi visit may advance key bilateral agreements

August 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: China on Monday said its Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s two-day visit to India, beginning Monday, was aimed at working with New Delhi to deliver on important understandings reached between the leaders of the two sides and decisions taken during the previous round of border talks. Wang is on a visit […]

Business

Roving Periscope: On Ukraine, Trump may face Alaska-type fiasco in Washinton, too!

August 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With President Donald Trump ‘directing’ Ukraine to give up on its quest for a NATO membership, or retrieving Crimea from Russia, ahead of the visits of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a European delegation, there is little hope of any breakthrough on the Ukraine war imbroglio. President Zelenskyy and his European […]

Business

Myanmar: After the bloody coup in 2021, military junta to hold phased elections from Dec 28

August 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nearly five years after it toppled a democratically-elected government, China-supported Myanmar’s military junta, fighting a long civil war, on Monday announced the first phase of general elections to begin on December 28 which, however, critics have already derided as a sham, the media reported. The National League for Democracy, led […]