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Afghanistan: Taliban no longer on terror list; Russia first to recognize its regime

July 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The wheel of history has turned the full circle. The Taliban—meaning the “Islamist students’ organization”—was born in the early 1990s primarily against the Soviet Union, with support from the US and Pakistan. After losing thousands of Russian soldiers in the nine-year-long war, the then USSR exited Afghanistan in February 1989, […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump’s ‘BBB’ wins; crises ahead as national debt to mount to $40 trillion

July 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For once, he can sleep in peace. After re-entering the White House on January 20, President Doland Trump—after several ups and downs, and twists and U-turns—tasted his first legialstive victory in the US Congress on Friday when the House of Representatives also passed, though with a thin majority, his controversial […]

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The Dalai Lama: Only he can choose his successor, insists India

July 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after China tried to impose its authority over the selection of the next Dalai Lama, India has insisted that only the Buddhist spiritual leader and the religious conventions he established can do so, the media reported. New Delhi has made its position unequivocal on the question of the […]

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Roving Periscope: Importing farm products key issue in US-India tariff talks

July 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In April, President Donald Trump paused his reciprocal tariffs on some 100 countries for three months, ending July 9. Several countries have since been racing against time to strike a favourable trade and tariff deal with America, even as Trump has just announced take on Japan! While he imposed as […]

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The Nayak moment: Thailand gets a new PM–for just one day!

July 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the 2001 Hindi movie “Nayak: The Real Hero,” actor Anil Kapoor, playing the role of a TV cameraman Shivaji Rao, becomes the Chief Minister for a day, in place of the incumbent played by Amrish Puri. Thailand’s politics has just delivered a Nayak-like moment as, amid a political upheaval, […]

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The Dalai Lama: China objects to his successor, says will appoint its own

July 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet and took refuge in India in the late 1959s, is on course of naming his successor, to the chagrin of China which annexed Tibet some six decades ago, claimed its “approval” was necessary. According to Tibetans, Tenzin Gyatso, the present Dalai Lama, is the […]

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Roving Periscope: “A billion people back Musk,” China says as it fishes in US troubled waters!

July 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Chinese are smiling ear-to-ear. “A billion people are backing you,” their social media users boasted, as Beijing was transfixed as US President Donald Trump’s public spat with his one-time ‘inseparable’ backer, Elon Musk, intensified. Since nothing unofficial can be made public in China, even on social media, this popular […]

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Syria: Trump lifts US sanctions, legitimizes ‘terrorists’ govt

July 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Chasing his dream to become a Nobel Peace Laureate, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ending US sanctions on Syria, following through on his promise to do so. With this, Washington has ‘legitimized’ the interim government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, former anti-Iran Sunni terrorist whom Trump met […]

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Roving Periscope: In S-2, Trump threatens, Musk dares; more fireworks likely

July 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Frenemies, they are irrepressible, and can bounce back when their foes believe they are finished. They found each other in 2024 when Donald Trump campaigned for a second term in the White House, and Elon Musk shifted allegiance from the Democrats to the Republicans and promptly donated USD 288 million […]

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Health: Trump’s USAID cuts may cause 14 million more deaths by 2030

July 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: President Donald Trump’s controversial move to cut most of the US’ funding towards foreign humanitarian aid through the USAID could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal. A third of those at risk of premature deaths were children, researchers […]