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Roving Periscope: Israel-Hamas reach “ceasefire” deal—really?

January 16, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Hours after the outgoing US President Joe Biden announced a “ceasefire deal” between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday, at least 70 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes amid a ceasefire deal delay, the media reported on Thursday. Israel airstrikes killed at least 70 people in Gaza overnight and on Thursday, […]

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Farewell Biden: Outgoing President hints at Musk and other tycoons, and warns of oligarchy

January 16, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As he packs his bags to leave the White House before his successor, Donald Trump’s January 20 Inauguration, outgoing US President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (Joe Biden), 82, on Wednesday warned the people that oligarchy is taking shape in America. In his Farewell Address to the Nation, he indirectly cited […]

Business

Last laugh: Adani firms’ stocks soar in India as Hindenburg shuts shop in the US

January 16, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With less than 100 hours to President-elect Donald Trump’s re-entry into the White House, the Democratic Party-supported Hindenburg Research, which the contemporary US’ deep state allegedly misused against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last couple of years, hurriedly shut its ‘financial butchery’ on Wednesday. […]

Business

Economy: India to surpass Japan, become 4th largest economy in 2026, says PHDCCI

January 15, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Punjab, Haryana, and Delhi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) on Wednesday said India’s economy is expected to become the fourth largest in the world by 2026, surpassing Japan, as it projected the nation’s GDP to grow 6.8 percent in the current financial year ending March and 7.7 percent […]

Business

Another 9/11? PIA’s 2025 ad for the Paris flight reminiscent of its 1979 ad in NY

January 15, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, and months before France goes to the next parliamentary elections, a controversial Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) advertisement has alerted security experts worldwide. The PIA’s highly controversial social media post quickly went viral, racking up over 21 million views and sparking outrage […]

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Roving Periscope: Ignoring the 1971 rapes, Bangladesh sleeps in Pakistan’s bed

January 15, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Bangladesh now seems to be plagued with a collective, nationwide psychological disease, schizophrenia-cum-Stockholm Syndrome, as it not only praises the perpetrator of crimes against humanity but also embraces it in an enduring brotherhood. During the Liberation War in 1971, the Pakistani soldiers and their Razakar militia brothers, floated by Islamic […]

Business

Pakistan: J&K incomplete without PoK, says Rajnath Singh

January 14, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid Pakistan’s continued support of terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday warned Islamabad that J&K is incomplete without the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Our Muslim brothers have sacrificed their lives fighting against terrorism, he said, adding that more than 80 percent of terrorists entering India […]

Business

Revelry to tragedy: Toll 24; Did NYE fireworks trigger the LA wildfires?

January 13, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: How did the Palisades Fires start in Los Angeles, California, USA, which gutted properties worth more than USD 150 billion and killed at least 24 people in the last 14 days? Some reports now point to the continuous fireworks by the revelers on New Year’s Eve, according to the media […]

Business

Markets: Global uncertainties pull Indian stocks down by over 1%

January 13, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Global uncertainties continued to drag Indian stocks down on Monday, as benchmark equity indices, BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty50, ended the week’s first trading session lower, settling down by over 1 percent each. The global uncertainties include the aftermath of US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, the situations […]

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Sri Lanka: Buddhist monk jailed for ‘insulting Islam’

January 10, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A Buddhist monk, Galagodaatte Gnanasaram, viewed as a close ally of ousted Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has been jailed in the island nation for allegedly “insulting Islam,” the media reported on Friday. The monk, who leads a Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist group, was convicted on Thursday for his 2016 remarks […]