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Congress’ priority not national security, but vote bank and appeasement politics: Amit Shah

July 31, 2025 revoi editor

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday listed out several Congress-era errors, leading to the formation of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and the loss of vast swathes of land to enemy nations. He also tore into the grand old party’s appeasement politics for political gains. Speaking in Rajya Sabha on Operation Sindoor, the Home Minister held […]

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Business

IT sector: Amid fears of job losses, Infosys to hire 20,000 freshers in FY26

July 30, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Days after Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said it would lay off 2 percent of its workforce (12,000 staffers) this year, which triggered fears that the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other tools could reduce at least 125,000 jobs in this sector, Infosys on Wednesday said it would hire 20,000 […]

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Business

Upgrade: IMF ups India’s GDP forecast for FY26, FY27 to 6.4%

July 30, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid Trump tariff uncertainties, the International Monetary Fund has upgraded India’s growth forecast by 20 basis points for the current fiscal and 10 basis points for the next fiscal years, the media reported on Wednesday. This is lower than the RBI projection (6.5 percent) but within the range of growth […]

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Education

Earthquake: An 8.8 mega-temblor in Russia triggers tsunami warnings in Japan, the US, etc

July 30, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: A magnitude 8.8 quake hit Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday morning, prompting tsunami warnings as far away as Japan, the US West Coast, and other countries, multiple media reports said. Fearing huge losses, Japan prepared to evacuate around two million people. Until Wednesday afternoon, tsunami warnings were issued for Russia, […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Trump ‘takes over’ the UK—before he will meet King Charles in Sept

July 29, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: He behaved like the King of Scotland, made Sir Keir Starmer a mere ‘extra’ in his own land, and called the London Mayor “nasty person” in the presence of the UK Prime Minister, the media reported on Tuesday about US President Donald Trump’s ongoing tour to the homeland of his […]

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Business

Technology: TCS firing 12,000 staff sends shockwaves across IT sector

July 29, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest software services provider, reducing its workforce by 2 percent (12,000 jobs) in 2025-26 from its global force—its stocks hit a 52-week low on Monday—this sector is likely to face significant reverses, the media reported on Tuesday. TCS had an employee headcount of 613,000 […]

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Business

Technology: Elon Musk’s Neuralink enables paralyzed woman to ‘write’

July 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Using an Elon Musk company’s innovation, a quadriplegic woman ‘wrote’ her name for the first time in 20 years using her mind, thanks to a Neuralink brain chip implant, the media reported on Monday. The woman, Audrey Crews, paralysed since she was 16, shared the breakthrough in a post on […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: After 35 deaths and Trump’s threats, Cambodia, Thailand agree to ceasefire

July 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After 35 deaths in five days of armed conflict over a Shiva Temple Complex on their bilateral borders, Thailand and Cambodia agreed to ceasefire to end their ongoing border clashes, the media reported on Monday. US President Donald Trump had also threatened the two countries with trade sanctions. It may […]

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Business

Trade deal: EU to pay 15% tariff to the US, buy energy worth $750 bn, and invest $600 bn

July 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After a high-stakes meeting between Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Scotland, the US and EU on Sunday clinched what the US President described as the “biggest-ever” deal to resolve a transatlantic tariff stand-off that threatened to explode into a full-blown trade war after August […]

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English

Thai and Cambodian leaders head to Malaysia for peace talks

July 28, 2025 revoi editor

The leaders of Thailand and Cambodia were set to hold talks in Malaysia on Monday to reach a ceasefire in their deadly border dispute, with the United States saying its officials would be assisting in the peace process. Thailand’s government said it was attending talks arranged by Malaysia in its role as chair of the […]

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