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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 […]

Business

Trade: Despite Pak ban, it buys Indian goods worth $10bn/p.a. via Dubai, etc.

April 26, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pakistan’s political posturing, somersaults, bans, threats, and warnings apart, its own people are buying ‘Make in India’ goods worth about USD 10 billion annually via indirect routes, the media reported on Saturday. According to a Global Trade Research Institute (GTRI) report, USD 10 billion worth of Indian goods reach Pakistan […]

Business

Pahalgam: Junking 2021 decision, Pak, India exchange fire at LoC in J&K

April 25, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Failed and broke Pakistan, with China and Bangladesh supporting it, has not only suspended the Shimla Pact of 1971 after India’s largely diplomatic retaliatory moves post the Pahalgam terror attack, but also junked the informal 2021 decision to desist from firing along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Trump insists tariff talks on; but China denies it!

April 25, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It is becoming queerer by the day. While China has declared it will not have any tariff talks with the US until the latter withdraws the unilaterally imposed import duty, President Donald Trump insists that talks for a deal are in progress! Trump, his flip-flops and all, claimed his administration […]

Business

Pahalgam terror: Pak cries foul on Indus waters, shuts airspace, trade routes

April 24, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After unsuccessfully denying its role in the terror attack and massacres of 26 tourists at Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, and India’s retaliatory diplomatic moves, broke-and-failed state of Pakistan on Thursday feebly tried to do something as drastic—it closed its airspace for Indian aviation and shut trade routes! It had […]