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Roving Periscope: Trump’s fiat on citizenship draws strong protests

January 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Hours after his second Inauguration on Monday, US President Donald Trump’s controversial decisions were challenged in courts and the opposition from elected lawmakers also mounted. Law officials from at least 22 states in the US sued on Tuesday to block President Trump’s move to end a century-old immigration practice as […]

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Immigration: India prepares to take back 18,000 illegals from the US

January 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the “Trump Factor” looming large across the planet, India is prepared to work with the 47th US President’s administration to identify and take back all its citizens residing illegally in America, according to a media report on Tuesday. This is an early signal from New Delhi that it’s willing […]

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Markets: After Trump’s return, India’s equity markets crash on “terrible Tuesday”

January 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the global markets muddied by the new US President Donald Trump’s announcements and threats, and some other reasons, India’s bourses crashed on Tuesday, with the BSE Sensex sliding down to 1,432 points to hit an intraday low of 75,641.87. The NSE Nifty50, too, tumbled 367.90 points to hit a […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump quake stirs the US and the West, starts roiling the world

January 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Within hours of Donald Trump’s Inauguration as the 47th President of the US on Monday, America withdrew from the WHO, Paris Climate Accord, and more, as the worried world waited with bated breath what the maverick Republican leader would bequeath to the planet four years from now. He suspected the […]

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Roving Periscope: Fragile ‘ceasefire’ as Israel and Hamas exchange prisoners

January 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nobody knows how long would the fragile six-week-long ‘ceasefire deal’ between Israel and Hamas survive but, as it folded on Sunday, the Sunni terror group of the Gaza Strip released three Israeli women hostages as Tel Aviv also released 90 Palestinian prisoners as per terms of the peace deal, which […]

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Technology: India is a global hub for digital innovation, says the WEF

January 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Applauding India for its rapid economic growth and as a frontline country in an age defined by technological revolution, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has said the South Asian nation has become the global hub for digital innovation, the media reported. In an era defined by technological evolution, India stands […]

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Legalized plunder: The British Raj siphoned off over $ 100 trillion from India!

January 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Two of India’s most celebrated diplomats—Dr. S. Jaishankar, and Dr. Shashi Tharoor—and eminent economist Utsa Patnaik underestimated the extent of the British Raj plundering India during the colonial era—nearly USD 45 trillion. For, human rights group Oxfam International has now revealed that the British actually siphoned off more than USD […]

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Pakistan: For ‘graft,’ Imran gets 14 years, wife Bushra 7 years in jail

January 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A Pakistani court on Friday convicted former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niyazi, who has been in jail since August 2023 and facing around 200 court cases since his ouster, and his wife Bushra, in a landmark case of alleged corruption, and sentenced them to 14 years and 7 […]

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Need a job? After Japan, China’s firm offers “jobs” to the unemployed!

January 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A few years ago, one of the leading Japanese multinational companies was reported to have created separate office space for the surplus employees it could not sack because of stringent rules. These “employees” would attend their “duties” daily—they merely played indoor games all day and got paid their salaries for […]

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Economy: Amid strong tax revenues, India’s fiscal deficit to shrink further, says WB

January 17, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gives the finishing touches to the Union Budget for the next financial year (2025-26), to be tabled on February 1 in the Lok Sabha, the World Bank has said India’s fiscal deficit is expected to shrink further because of growing tax revenues, the media reported […]