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At the UNHRC: India calls Pakistan a “failed state”

February 27, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Perhaps for the first time since 1947, India has officially called Pakistan a “failed state,” which survives on international handouts, and dutifully spreads falsehoods handed down by its military-terrorist complex. Exercising its Right of Reply at the high-level segment of the 58th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council […]

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Roving Periscope: Developed nations can’t determine global order, says FM

February 27, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said the developed nations can no longer determine the emerging global order, the media reported. Delivering a key-note address at an event on the theme “The Great Reset: India in a New World Order,” she said that trade and technology will play […]

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Agriculture: Hot summer temperatures may impact wheat production in India

February 27, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Although March is yet to begin this Saturday, Mumbai and many cities and towns have already registered high temperatures. The upcoming summer may impact wheat production in India this year, the media reported on Thursday. After three consecutive years of poor crop yields since 2022, India, the world’s second-biggest wheat […]

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Roving Periscope: In war-as-business, Russia and Ukraine hope to Trump one another!

February 25, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As Europe’s deadliest conflict since the Second World War entered the fourth year on Monday, US President Donald Trump, smoking the peace pipe with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, wants elections in war-ravaged Ukraine which its President Volodomyr Zelenskyy has almost rejected. Ever since he took office in January, President […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump’s ‘reciprocal tariffs’ may come in April

February 14, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: US President Donald Trump, who has said “India has more tariffs than any other country,” is likely to impose ‘reciprocal tariffs’ by April, 2025, which may affect the South Asian country expected to become the world’s third-largest economy in the next few years, Bloomberg reported on Friday, quoting officials. In […]

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Roving Periscope: To counter China’s BRI, India and France ‘reinforce’ IMEEC

February 13, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after Panama, under pressure from the US, announced to dissociate from China’s multi-continental USD 200 billion Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), New Delhi and Paris have ‘reinforced’ the proposed USD 400 billion India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEEC). In this regard, French shipping major CMA CGM will play a key […]

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Trump’s man: Paul Kapur is the new US Asstt Secy of State for South, C. Asia

February 13, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In a signal to Pakistan, US President Donald Trump has nominated Islamabad-critic and Indian-origin expert Paul Kapur as the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia. Kapur, an expert on India-Pakistan security and nuclear issues and a harsh critic of Islamabad, will replace Donald Lu of the Joe […]

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N-energy: India, France to jointly develop new generation of modern reactors

February 13, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India and France have agreed to jointly develop a new generation of nuclear reactors, signaling New Delhi’s intent to partner with other nations for cutting-edge technology as the US threatens to upend global trade. India plans to have at least five locally-made small and modular reactors (SMRs) by 2033. The […]

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Roving Periscope: With PM Modi in the US, India may demand extradition of 12 criminals

February 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: During his scheduled visit to the US on Thursday and meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s team is expected to urge the US authorities to ensure the extradition of 12 America-based gangsters to India, the media reported on Wednesday. India is likely to hand over […]

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FB in Pakistan: “I was nearly sentenced to death for blasphemy,” says Zuckerberg

February 12, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: “I was nearly sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said, the media reported on Wednesday. On the Joe Rogan Podcast, he spoke on stricter content controls, the growing regulatory pressures on technology firms worldwide, and Meta’s ongoing effort to balance free speech with adherence […]