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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 […]

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Roving Periscope: China, Pak plot a new SAARC-like outfit, exclude India

June 30, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It was expected for a long time. When China started debt-trapping and subtly ‘colonizing’ Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, India became aware that the Dragon was plotting to sabotage the very spirit—regional cooperation—in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and replace it with an outfit packed with […]

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Operation Sindoor II: After beseeching for ‘ceasefire,’ Pak rebuilding terror assets

June 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Weeks after beseeching for a ‘ceasefire’ with India, and learning no lesson from Operation Sindoor, Islamabad has started rebuilding terror camps and launchpads destroyed in mainland Pakistan as well as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in the May 7 missile strikes, the media reported on Saturday. The Pakistan Army, its ISI wing, […]

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Pakistan: Suicide bomber kills 13 soldiers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

June 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: At least 13 Pakistan Army soldiers were killed and 29 others, including civilians, were wounded in a suicide attack on a military convoy in North Waziristan in Pakistan on Saturday, the media reported. The condition of the four injured soldiers is critical. A suicide attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban […]

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Roving Periscope: Has America discovered its own Jinnah/Kejriwal?

June 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: “Get behind Zohran Mamdani,” Bernie Sanders asked Democrats as anti-Muslim hate surged online this week in the USA, the media reported on Saturday. Sanders, the influential US Senator from Vermont, said the New York City mayoral candidate is just what the Democratic Party needs. “He is 100 percent Communist, lunatic; […]

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Iran: US proposes $30 bn for ‘peaceful’ n-use—the Arabs to foot the bill!

June 27, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after bombing its three key nuclear facilities, the US is considering helping Iran access USD 30 billion to build a civilian-energy-producing nuclear programme, in what is a surprising twist in the diplomatic ties between the two nations, CNN reported on Friday. The US struck three Iranian nuclear sites last weekend after […]

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Trade and tariff: ‘Very big deal soon, to open up India,’ says Trump

June 27, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After several blow hot and blow cold statements in the last few months, US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that America is going to have a “very big” trade deal with India, hinting at significant progress in the negotiation process of a long-awaited bilateral trade agreement between the two […]

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Roving Periscope: Rajnath stresses China roadmap for solving complex issues

June 27, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The day he refused to sign the joint statement after the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting in China, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh met his Chinese counterpart on Thursday and called for solving complex issues under a structured roadmap between the two countries. He called for structured de-escalation, trust-building, and border […]

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Iran: Ayatollah Khamenei claims victory over Israel, warns the US

June 26, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in his first reaction after the ceasefire this week, congratulated his people on what he called a “victory” over Israel, and a “heavy slap” to the USA during the recent conflict, according to a post from his official account on X (formerly Twitter) on […]