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Trade: Trump asks PM Modi to buy more “American security equipment”

January 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Within a week after starting his second stint in the White House, American businessman-turned-politician, US President Donald Trump, has started pressuring all and sundry to do more business to Make America Great Again (MAGA). It is in this vein that he asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to move towards a […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump 2.0 pushes China into India’s uneasy embrace!

January 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Call it geopolitical serendipity! Within a week of US President Donald Trump’s second Inauguration, and his multiple threats and actions against all and sundry, China and India are trying to re-embrace each other. In particular, China is trying to keep America away from India—as far as possible. That may explain […]

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26/11: NIA to bring Tahawwur Rana to India, but the US ‘keeps’ Headley

January 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A team from India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) is expected to fly to the US on January 30 to bring back Tahawwur Rana, one of the masterminds of the Mumbai terror attacks of November 26, 2008, in which 166 people were killed and several others injured. India decided to dispatch […]

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Bangladesh: India discusses with the US the new developments

January 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said he had a brief discussion on the current situation in Bangladesh with newly-appointed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. “Yes, we had a brief discussion on Bangladesh. I don’t think it’s appropriate that I get into […]

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Hughes Fires: 50,000 evacuated as devastating Los Angeles inferno returns

January 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: US Officials on Thursday evacuated nearly 50,000 people from fire-hit areas around Los Angeles, California, as the recent wildfires, which destroyed properties worth over USD 150 billion, killed many, and forced celebrities to flee, returned with ferocity—the fire department named them the Hughes Fires. A new wildfire erupted north of […]

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Roving Periscope: “He didn’t pardon himself,” Trump warns Biden!

January 23, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Reacting to Joe Biden’s last-minute, pre-emptive pardons for his siblings and their spouses—claiming that had been subject to “attacks” to hurt him—President Donald Trump has warned his predecessor that he (Biden) had not pardoned himself. In his first interview since Inauguration on Monday, he said Biden had not given himself […]

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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 […]