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Roving Periscope: Rudderless, Bangladesh may slip into a civil war

May 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Muhammad Yunus has, since he started enjoying political power for the first time in August 2024, at the ripe old age of 84, proved Lord Acton right: that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Secondly, he has also proved that being a Nobel Laureate for Peace—he pioneered micro-financing in […]

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Terror funding: India to move FATF in June to revert Pak to “grey list”

May 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nearly two weeks after India took exception to the IMF virtually ‘terror-funding’ Pakistan, even amid the ongoing Operation Sindoor, New Delhi will now make a strong case with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) at its next meeting in June to revert Pakistan to its “grey list” for its failure […]

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Rising Northeast: Reliance, Adanis to invest Rs. 75k cr, Rs. 1 lakh cr respectively

May 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Reliance and Adani Groups will invest Rs. 75,000 crores and Rs. 1 lakh crores, respectively, in developing the northeastern states. Addressing the Rising Northeast Investors’ Summit 2025 in the national capital, Adani said his group was committed to investing an additional Rs. 50,000 crores over the next 10 years […]

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Pahalgam: India launches diplomatic offensive to expose Pakistan in 33 capitals

May 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: On a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that ‘hot sindoor’ flowed in his veins, India on Thursday launched its global outreach against terrorism emanating from Pakistan as multi-party parliamentary delegations reached Japan and United Arab Emirates to assert the right to self-defence following the Operation Sindoor carried out early […]

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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 […]