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Book row: India replaces KV Subramanian ahead of IMF meeting on Pak loans

May 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Ahead of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s crucial meeting on Friday to finalize the USD 1.33 billion instalment of the USD 7 billion bailout package to rescue Pakistan’s ‘cashless’ economy, India has sacked its representative K.V. Subramanium, New Delhi’s nominee on the global lender’s board, six months before his term […]

Business

Global economy: Trump tariffs slow down activity—but India may be a ‘winner’

May 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Within four months of his second inauguration at the White House on January 20, 2025, US President Donald Trump’s controversial tariff war has dragged the global economy down, barring exceptions, the media reported on Monday. His tariffs are increasingly clogging up the wheels of a world economy which for decades […]

Business

Pakistan: Putin dials PM Modi, to visit India, backs its fight against terrorism

May 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday dialed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, strongly condemned the Hindu-only massacre by Muslim terrorists at Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir on April 22, and expressed “full support” to India in the fight against terrorism sponsored by Pakistan. President Putin emphasized that the perpetrators of the […]

Business

Tit-for-tat: India bans import of all Pakistan-originated goods, stops shipping

May 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Tightening the noose around Islamabad’s neck, India on Saturday banned the import of all Pakistan-originated goods with immediate effect, the media reported. The Directorate-General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said the ban will take effect immediately, as per a May 2 notification. “This restriction is imposed in the interest of national […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Now, India has two Pakistan-s on its flanks

May 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: On a day India suspended the exchange of all mail and parcel services with Islamabad through air and surface routes, it emerged that “East Pakistan” (also known as Bangladesh!) fully supports its erstwhile tormentor “West Pakistan” and has even threatened to occupy northeastern India if New Delhi attacked Islamabad. Major-General […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Now, Trump blocks federal funding for “biased” public radios

May 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the world focused on his actions and forensic scrutiny by the media, US President Donald Trump has blocked all federal funding the American public media outlets—PBS and NPR—which he considers are “biased.” In an executive order he signed on Thursday, he alleged that the two organizations—the Public Broadcasting Service […]

Business

Jugular Vein: Post-Pahalgam massacre, India asks IMF to review Pak loans

May 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A week before the Pahalgam massacre, when Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir reinvoked Muhammed Ali Jinnah’s” Two Nation Theory”, and said that Jammu and Kashmir was Islamabad’s ‘jugular vein,’ he may not have realized that he inadvertently gave India a clue: that International Monetary Fund (IMF) was, in fact, Pakistan’s […]

Defence

Trump impact: ‘Made in India’ iPhones to dominate US market in Q2

May 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Americans buying iPhones this second quarter (April-June 2025) have originated in India, not in China, as Beijing struggles to keep its nose above waters in the ongoing trade war against Washington, which has forced multinational companies to follow the “China+One” policy and shift their operations to other countries. The […]

Business

Roving Periscope: After Gaza and Ukraine failures, the US now urges India, Pak to de-escalate

May 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After his efforts to bring peace in Gaza and Ukraine failed to bear tangible fruit so far, US President Donald Trump’s administration has urged Pakistan and India to de-escalate tension that has gripped the two countries after the April 22 massacre at Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, carried out by Islamabad-backed […]

Business

Trade & tariffs: Trump hopes for “potential deals” with India, S. Korea, and Japan

May 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After waging a fierce trade war against multiple countries, including China, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has “potential trade deals” with India, South Korea, and Japan—all viewed as anti-Beijing—the media reported on Thursday. In remarks at an ‘Investing in America’ event in Washington, D.C., he said he […]