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Roving Periscope: Turkiye’s Erdogan finds his nemesis in Istanbul Mayor

March 24, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the powerful Mayor of Istanbul (1994-98) before he became Turkey’s Prime Minister (2003-14) and then President (2014…). Increasingly, he became Islamist, then Pan-Islamist, and even tried to resurrect the Ottoman Empire which died in 1924, and, in 2022, unite non-Arab Muslims—including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Malaysia—to […]

Defence

Williams & Wilmore: “I’ll pay for their overtime work,” says Trump

March 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: American astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who returned from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth this week after being stranded there for over nine months, may have another pleasant surprise: although NASA is reported to have denied them payment for overtime work, US President Donald Trump has offered […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Trump revokes parole; to deport 5 lakh back to nearby nations

March 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With US President Donald Trump revoking their parole, more than half a million people from neighboring countries such as Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela face deportation in the next few weeks, the media reported on Saturday. Effective April 24, this decision will end a two-year “parole” granted by the preceding […]

Business

Roving Periscope: 3.2 mn Americans, aged 120+, disappear from SS database in 10 days

March 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Indian media has often reported dead people ‘voting’ or fake persons receiving benefits of government schemes. Now the US has also discovered 3.2 million people, aged more than 120 years—or nearly one percent of the total US population of 340 million—potentially receiving government benefits, and promptly removed their names […]

Business

INR: At 85.98/USD, Indian Rupee’s best weekly performance in 2 years

March 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid concerns over the ongoing global economic volatility and the potential impact of Trump tariffs, the Indian rupee strengthened significantly, vis-à-vis the US dollar on Friday, logging its best week in more than two years. The domestic currency closed 39 paise stronger at 85.98 against the greenback after closing at […]

Business

Aviation: Over 1,200 flights disrupted due to Heathrow Airport power outage

March 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A major fire in an electrical substation at London’s busy Heathrow International Airport on Friday forced the authorities to close the facility for at least 24 hours, disrupting more than 1,200 flights, including 37 from and to India, the media reported. The Heathrow Airport, one of the busiest in the […]

Business

Ukraine: The US and Russia to talk on a ceasefire deal, in Jeddah on Sunday

March 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid Russia’s ambivalent reaction over the US-proposed 30-day ceasefire in the Ukraine war—so as to grab as much land as it could before heading to the negotiating table—Washington has said talks on a ceasefire deal “with begin on Sunday in Jeddah.” It is not clear whether the two countries have […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Now, Putin plays hardball with Trump and Zelenskyy!

March 19, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Republican candidate Donald Trump, who had boasted last year that, if elected as the US President, he would end the Ukraine war in two days, may now be doing a reality check—indeed, he recently claimed his statement was in a ‘lighter vein’—after his telephonic conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin […]

Business

Space: Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returning to Earth on Wednesday

March 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: American astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stuck at the International Space Station (ISS) since the last nine months because of technical reasons, are finally returning to Earth early on Wednesday morning, Indian Standard Time (IST), the media reported. The duo, who flew to the ISS on June 5, 2024 […]

Business

Roving Periscope: On eve of Trump-Putin talk, Israeli air strikes kill over 400 in Gaza

March 18, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the danger of fragile ceasefire breaking, Israel resumed fierce air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing at least 400 people, even as US President Donald Trump gave finishing touches for a telephonic conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a bid to end the three-year-long conflict […]