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Roving Periscope: Now, Trump tries a Zelenskyy on SA President Ramaphosa

May 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: In 1936, Dale Carnegie penned his world-famous self-help book How to Win Friends and Influence People. Nine decades on, if US President Donald Trump writes a similar book, its title could well be…How to Lose Friends and Make Enemies! For, ever since he returned to the White House on January […]

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Growth: India’s projection up 0.2%, China’s down 0.3%, says Fitch Ratings

May 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Global rating agency Fitch Ratings has raised India’s medium-term growth potential by 0.2 percentage points to 6.4 per cent, and reduced China’s growth projection from 4.6 percent by 0.3 percent to 4.3 percent, the media reported on Thursday. The changes are part of Fitch’s revised assessment of potential GDP growth […]

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Spendthrift America: IMF warns the US of mounting deficit, recession

May 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Days after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) controversially bailed out a broke Pakistan amid its low-cost war against India, and a day after America announced the development of a Golden Dome worth USD 175 billion to protect itself from China and Russia, the global lender has warned Washington to curb […]

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Correcting course: After appeasing the US, Pak vows to ‘deepen’ ties with China also

May 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Rattled over reports that China, its “all-weather ally”, is outraged with Islamabad suddenly beseeching Washington early this month for help against India, Pakistan has now declared it would ‘deepen’ ties with China. In particular, according to reports, Beijing was angry with Islamabad for hinting that the ‘substandard’ Chinese and Turkish […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump’s Golden Dome may ape Reagan’s Star Wars!

May 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: America’s objective has remained the same, although its enemies are different. Then, it was the Soviet Union; now it’s China plus Russia. Aiming to defend the USA and galaxy, no less, Republican President Ronald Reagan, on March 23, 1983, in a televised address to the nation, announced his plans to […]

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Trump tariffs: India well-positioned to deal with negative effects, says Moody’s Ratings

May 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Dispelling fears in some quarters, Moody’s Ratings said on Wednesday that India is well-positioned to deal with the negative effects of the current US tariffs and global trade disruptions as domestic growth drivers and low dependence on exports anchor the Indian economy. The media reported that government initiatives to boost […]

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Terror: If the US can extradite Rana, why can’t Pak send Saeed, Lakhvi to India?

May 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: If the US can extradite terrorist masterminds like Tahawwur Rana to India, why cannot Pakistan extradite Hafiz Saeed and others to India? Citing a long list of terror attacks in India that originated from Pakistan, India’s Ambassador to Israel J P Singh has said that the “root cause is the […]

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Science and Tech: Former AEC chief Srinivasan and cosmologist Narlikar pass away

May 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Two towering personalities of Indian science and technology—Dr. M. R. Srinivasan, 95, and Dr J. V. Narlikar, 87—passed away on Monday in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, respectively, due to age-related issues. Veteran nuclear physicist and former Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman Dr. M. R. Srinivasan, who played a key role […]

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Roving Periscope: Russia-Ukraine to begin ‘peace talks’ immediately, claims Trump

May 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Even before India and/or Pakistan could say so on May 10, US President Donald Trump, desperate to take credit to jack up his plummeting popularity at home, announced that the two South Asian countries had agreed to a ‘ceasefire’ during the Operation Sindoor, which, ironically, has just paused and is […]

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Bhikharistan: Begging is a Pak ‘biz’ worth PKR 42 bn; 5k beggars deported to Islamabad!

May 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: That Pakistan is infamous as a begging country is no secret. It has secured over two dozen bailouts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) alone in as many years. And its current Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has publicly admitted that Pakistan is ashamed of going abroad with a begging bowl! […]

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