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Roving Periscope: NY goes the London way—elects first Muslim Mayor!

November 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: In September 2025, visiting US President Donald Trump personally asked officials that Pakistan-born London Mayor Sadiq Khan should not be invited to the state banquet hosted in his honour. On Tuesday, he saw Indian-African-American leader Zohran Mamdani—seen as anti-Jewish, pro-Palestinian– being elected as New York’s first Muslim Mayor he had […]

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Visa fraud: Canada cancelled 74% Indian students’ study permits in August 2025

November 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With Canada tightening immigration rules, the North American country rejected a record 74 percent Indian students’ applications for visa on allegation of fraud in August 2025, the media reported on Tuesday. Canada’s strict cap on student permits and new verification checks led to this drastic step. India is not alone, […]

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Wealth: India’s richest 1% grew their wealth by 62% since 2000, says G-20 study

November 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After India rolled out economic liberalization, privatization, and globalization in 1991, the richest 1 percent saw their wealth grow by 62 percent between 2000 and 2023, the media reported on Tuesday. According to a study commissioned by the South African Presidency of the Group of 20, the richest 1 percent […]

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N-tests: Pakistan, China, Russia, N. Korea testing—so is the US doing, says Trump

November 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Trying to justify his recent orders on US resuming nuclear tests, and in an apparent attempt to pressurize India, US President Donald Trump has now claimed that Pakistan is also conducting nuclear test. “Pakistan, China, Russia, and North Korea are conducting nuclear tests. So, the US also needs to,” he […]

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Roving Periscope: Japan to invest $300 mn in Pakistan’s terror-threatened copper and gold mines

November 3, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With America warming Pakistan up again—if only to keep China at bay—its Western allies are also boarding the bandwagon. Japan became the latest entrant in this pro-Pakistan club, announcing an investment of USD 300 million in the nearly bankrupt and failed state’s biggest copper and gold mines in Reko Diq, […]

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Roving Periscope: ‘80% of Pakistan’s agriculture depends on waters from India!’

November 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Eighty percent of agricultural land irrigation in Pakistan depends entirely on water from the Indus River system, an Australian think tank has said. Australia’s Sydney-based nonprofit Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), one of the world’s most respected think tanks, just dropped a ‘water bomb’ Pakistan has been fearing for […]

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Ukraine war: Indian refiners prepare to buy less Russian crude

November 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With geoeconomics becoming a tool of geopolitics, India’s oil processors, the top buyers of seaborne crude from Russia, have been weighing up their options since the US last week blacklisted two of Russia’s biggest fuel producers, Rosneft PJSC and Lukoil PJSC, the media reported on Saturday. War economics is strange. […]

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Deepawali bonanza: Festival demand lifts GST collection 4.6% to Rs. 1.96 lakh crore in October

November 1, 2025 revoi editor

  Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: India’s gross GST collection rose 4.6 percent year-on-year to Rs. 1.96 lakh crore in October 2025, buoyed by festive spending spree, despite a broad GST rate cut on 375 items, the media reported on Saturday. Goods and Services Tax (GST) rates on 375 items, including kitchen staples to electronics […]

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Ukraine: Trump cancelled Budapest meeting with Putin due to his “maximalist demands”

October 31, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After their August 15 summit in Alaska, US President Donald Trump had hoped that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will take steps to end the ongoing war in Ukraine. Nothing happened. The war continues. Then Trump sought to negotiate a peace deal with Putin at another meeting, expected to be […]

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Roving Periscope: The US smiles at China and Pakistan; then inks defence pact with India!

October 31, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid fast-changing geodynamics, temporary alliances and coalitions, and the emergence of a New World Order—or is it Chaos?—no country wants to put all its bags in one basket. Friends and enemies now seamlessly merge into frenemies. Nothing demonstrates this better than how US President Donald Trump has, in his second […]

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