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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 […]

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Markets: HMPV, Trump, and FIIs pull Indian stocks down by over 1.5%

January 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After a positive start to the New Year last week, Indian stocks plunged over 1 percent on Monday because of the rising concerns over the spread of another feared COVID-19-type pandemic, and also due to the potential global uncertainties after Donald Trump’s second-term beginning in the US on January 20, […]

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Dear Pinarayi Vijayan, revisit Kerala’s history to understand Sanatana Dharma and Narayana Guru

January 6, 2025 revoi editor

(Guru Prakash) ‘No doubt the communists get quick results because when you adopt the means of annihilating a man, they do not remain to oppose you. Humanity does not only want economic values; it also wants spiritual values to be retained. Permanent communist dictatorship has paid no attention to spiritual values and does not seem […]

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Roving Periscope: Biden cancels $15 bn steel bid as Japan is a “security risk!”

January 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Harry S. Truman, a Democrat, was the US President in 1945 when America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, forcing Japan to surrender and close the Second World War. Now, 80 years on, America still considers Japan a “security risk,”—although the US provides it the overall security cover—and another […]

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South Korea: Impeached President Yoon blocks a probe into his corruption

January 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the ongoing political high drama in a democratic South Korea, anti-corruption investigators failed to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after a nearly six-hour standoff with the presidential security guards, the media reported on Friday. The continuing crisis has paralyzed the economic powerhouse nation’s politics and witnessed two heads […]