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Roving Periscope: LA’s devastating fires cause $60 bn loss as H’wood celebrities flee

January 10, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Several Hollywood celebrities, whose palatial mansions turned into ashes, are reported to have fled the raging fires in Los Angeles where at least 10 people have died and nearly 20,000 acres of forested land have turned into rubble this week, the media reported on Friday. The fires have displaced nearly […]

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World economy: Growth to remain muted at 2.8%, but India to be the fastest at 6.6% in 2025

January 10, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The United Nations has warned that global economic growth will remain subdued at 2.8 percent in 2025, the same as in 2024, because of the continuing uncertainties the world over, but India will be the fastest-growing economy. South Asia will remain the fastest-growing region, with a predicted 5.7 percent growth, […]

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Roving Periscope: Elon Musk accuses George Soros of “hatred of humanity”

January 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The world’s wealthiest man Elon Musk has accused highly controversial billionaire and “philanthropist” George Soros, 94, whom the outgoing US President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal for Freedom this week, of “hatred of humanity.” Critics said the outgoing Democratic President selected Soros because he was given the freedom to […]

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Energy: Govt may provide LPG subsidy of Rs. 35,000 cr to IOC, BPCL and HPCL

January 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Government of India is likely to give subsidies worth Rs. 35,000 crores for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to the three state-owned distributors—Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd, and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd—to make up for losses they incurred on selling the fuel in the current financial year, the […]

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Post-Trudeau: Canada court grants bail to all four Indian accused in Nijjar case; trial in Feb

January 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Hours after Justin Trudeau quit as the Canadian Prime Minister, a court granted bail to all four Indian accused arrested in May 2024 in the Hardeep Singh Nijjar murder case, which soured the North American country’s relations with India. Since September 2023, Trudeau has been accusing “Indian agents” of involvement […]

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Greenland: From ‘frying pan to fire’, its PM rushes back to Denmark’s monarch

January 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: President-elect Donald Trump’s pre-inauguration announcements have created a peculiar situation for Greenland: Its left-wing leader, who was trying to get freedom from Denmark, has been forced to go back to the same Danish monarch for protection! According to the media reports, Greenland Prime Minister Mute Bourup Egede will meet the […]

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Roving Periscope: “Oh Canada!”, Trump says the ‘golden age’ of America to begin

January 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Attempting China-like cartographic diplomacy, President-elect Donald Trump, just 12 days before his January 20 inauguration, published a ‘new map’ of America including Canada as the 51st state of the USA, setting the cat among the other pigeons—Mexico, the Panama Canal, and Greenland—he may annex during his upcoming four-years in the […]

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Roving Periscope: As Canada celebrates Trudeau exit, Trump ‘renews’ 51st state offer

January 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While many Canadians ‘celebrated’ the anticipated resignation of their highly unpopular Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 53, on Monday, President-elect Donald Trump renewed his offer to Canada to become the United States’ 51st state and enjoy prosperity and security, the media reported on Tuesday. Many people heaved a sigh of relief […]

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Economy: India’s GDP may grow 6.4% in FY25, says first advance estimates

January 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gives the finishing touches to the next fiscal year’s Union Budget (2025-26), to be tabled in Parliament in the coming Budget Session, the first economic survey for FY25 has projected a GDP growth of 6.4 percent in the current financial year, ending March 31, 2025. […]

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East Pakistan: Yunus-led Dhaka making a Nawaz out of Hasina!

January 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Remember how a certain Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, once-upon-a-time cricket-star-turned Prime Minister of Pakistan (2018-22), duly supported by the Army, thrust several cases against his predecessor—and now the de facto successor—Nawaz Sharif, forcing him into exile for years, until he returned to pay back the faded star and put him […]