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Security: Amid Pak tensions, India revamps NSAB with ex-RAW chief as its head

April 30, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A week after Pakistan-based Islamist terrorists killed at least 26 Hindu tourists at Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, and war cries escalated in both the countries, India on Wednesday revamped the crucial National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), for the first time after 2018, the media reported. Alok Joshi, the former […]

Business

Gold: As prices skyrocket, demand falls by 15% in three months, says WGC

April 30, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India, believed to be the world’s largest gold consumer, has seen its demand for the yellow metal fall by 15 percent this year because of skyrocketing prices, the World Gold Council (WGC) has said. This decline in sales volume was offset by a 22 percent surge (in rupee terms) in […]

Business

Ukraine: N. Korea sent up to 15k soldiers of whom 600 died, says S. Korea

April 30, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: About 600 North Korean soldiers, who fought for Russia in its ongoing war against Ukraine, have been killed so far, according to South Korean lawmakers. Addressing the media after a closed-door briefing by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Wednesday, Lee Seong-kweun and Kim Byung-kee said that an estimated 4,700 […]

Business

America v/s Canada: “Our old relationship is over,” says PM Mark Carney

April 29, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A month after turning the fortunes of Liberal Party, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who is seen retaining power after the snap polls held on Monday, criticized the US and emphasized that Canada’s old relationship of integration with America is over. In his victory speech after the media projection that […]

Business

Roving Periscope: PM Carney’s Liberals win polls in Canada; Khalistanis lose

April 29, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Prime Minister Mark Carney-led Liberal party was on a victory path in Canada’s snap election held on Monday, according to local media projections on Tuesday. Both the public broadcasters CBC and CTV News projected the Liberals would form Canada’s next government, but it was not yet clear if they would […]

Business

Terror: J&K closes 48 of 87 tourist spots after April 22 massacre

April 29, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As India prepares for a tit-for-tat reply to Pakistan after the April 22 terror attack at Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, that claimed the lives of at least 26 tourists and injured many more, the government on Tuesday closed more than half of tourist destinations in the insurgency-torn Union Territory. […]

Business

Pahalgam: India roasts BBC, blocks 16 Pak YouTubers, on questionable content

April 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Strongly responding to their anti-India diatribe after last week’s heinous terrorist attack at Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, New Delhi on Monday officially blocked at least 16 YouTube channels of the neighboring country, including those of former cricketers Shoaib Akhtar and Basit Ali. The government said these channels were disseminating […]

Business

Roving Periscope: N. Korea admits sending soldiers to Russia to fight in Ukraine

April 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has, for the first time, confirmed that he sent troops to help Russia ‘annihilate’ Ukrainian forces under a military pact he signed with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in June 2024, the media reported on Monday. The North Korean forces contributed to taking back […]

Business

Pahalgam massacre: The US urges India, Pak to find ‘responsible solution’

April 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After rebuking Pakistan for long, the US State Department said on Sunday that Washington was in touch with both New Delhi and Islamabad and urged them to work towards what it called a “responsible solution” as tensions between the two neighbors escalated after the last week’s terrorist attack at Pahalgam […]

Defence

Kailash-Mansarovar: After 5 years, the yatra to resume from June 2025

April 26, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With a recent thaw in the China-India ties after the May 2020 clashes in Eastern Ladakh, the much-awaited Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra is set to resume in June 2025, the media reported on Saturday. The resumption of this ancient Yatra is seen as an effort by India and China to improve ties […]