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Business

Transport: India loses 3% of GDP due to road accidents, says Gadkari

March 25, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road, Transport, and Highways, on Tuesday said India is losing 3 percent of its GDP due to nearly 5 lakh road accidents per annum in the country. Addressing the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM)’ s event on “Technology Interventions For Road Safety: US-India Partnership,” he […]

English

Japan raises concern over longest Chinese intrusion near Senkaku islands

March 25, 2025 revoi editor

Japan has voiced serious concerns over a prolonged incursion by Chinese Coast Guard ships near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, marking one of the longest intrusions into Japan’s territorial waters. The Chinese ships, which claim the islands for Beijing, left on Monday night after remaining in the area for 92 hours […]

Elections

Roving Periscope: On Ukraine, the US-Russia talks far from a deal—yet

March 25, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, it believed the war would be over in “48 hours.” Likewise, Donald Trump, during his presidential campaign in 2024, declare that he will put an end to the Ukraine war in “two days.” More than three years on—exactly after 1,125 days—the war […]

Business

Roving Periscope: On Ukraine, the US-Russia ‘productive’ talks far from a deal—yet

March 25, 2025 revoi editor

Business

Canada: PM Carney orders snap parliamentary poll on April 28

March 24, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid several crises it is facing, both internal and external, Canada will go to snap parliamentary elections on April 28, the media reported on Monday. Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday triggered the vote as he seeks to build on his Liberal Party’s momentum since the start of the year, in the […]

Business

Markets: Sensex, Nifty surge more than 1.3% on positive global clues

March 24, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid the looming Trump tariffs potentially kicking off next week, the US Federal Reserve retaining interest rates, and the inflow of the FIIs, Indian indices on Monday reflected investors’ positive sentiments and continued their upward journey as Sensex surged past the psychological 78,000-mark while banking stocks led the rally. Benchmark […]

Business

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 […]