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Terror: FBI names US Army veteran Shamsuddin Jabbar in New Orleans carnage

January 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A United States Army veteran, Shamsuddin Jabbar, suspected to have terror links, has been named as the key suspect in the New Orleans carnage on the eve of the New Year’ in which at least 15 people died and 35 were wounded, the media reported on Thursday. Shamsuddin Jabbar, 42, […]

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Markets: Indian bourses greet the New Year 2025 with significant gains

January 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after celebrating the New Year 2025, the Indian stock market rallied by over 1.8 percent on Thursday as Sensex neared 80,000 points and Nifty crossed the 24,000 mark with optimism fueled by technical breakouts and upcoming earnings. Indian markets staged a robust comeback, with the benchmark Sensex surging […]

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Roving Periscope: Chinmoy denied bail as ‘East Pak’ apes Islamabad and Beijing

January 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Three days after Bangladesh Army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman described Dhaka’s relations with New Delhi as “give-and-take” and with Beijing as a “partner in development”, a Bangladesh court on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, who was arrested on November 25, 2024, on trumped up “sedition” […]

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Global warming: 2024 India’s warmest year since 1901, says IMD

January 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The year 2024 was India’s warmest year since 1901 and even the global temperature also hit a record high in the ongoing era of global warming, the media reported on Wednesday. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the bygone year 2024 now ranks as the warmest year on record […]

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Energy: Winter chill for Europe as Russia suspends gas transit via Ukraine

January 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Ukraine refusing to renew a 2019 energy transit agreement through its war-torn territory, Russia’s energy behemoth Gazprom on Wednesday suspended the passage of natural gas to Europe, threatening to worsen the Continent’s struggling economies as the New Year 2025 unfolded. The Ukrainian move came to pressurize Europe—and the United […]

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Frenemies: Wary of Trump, Xi reminds Putin of China’s ‘fidelity’ to Russia!

December 31, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Twenty days ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the United States’ 47th President, and his potentially regrowing proximity to President Vladimir Putin, a wary President Xi Jinping has reminded Moscow that China and Russia are “along the right path.” China and Russia are moving forward hand-in-hand along the “right path” […]

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Roving Periscope: A beneficiary himself, Elon Musk defends “skilled foreign immigrants”

December 31, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: An H-1B visa beneficiary himself from South Africa, the world’s richest man Elon Musk, a staunch Donald Trump supporter, is now at loggerheads with other Republican Party leaders who are supporting the US president-designate’s plans to overhaul the immigration policy to Make America Great Again (MAGA). With his support for […]

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Post-pandemic: President Xi says China clocked nearly 5% GDP growth in 2024

December 31, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With US President-elect Donald Trump potentially reopening the COVID-19 wounds in 2025, and his plans to impose high tariffs on Chinese imports, President Xi Jinping has reassured his people that a recovering China is regaining its economic power and its 2024 GDP growth has hit the target of nearly 5 […]

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Roving Periscope: Battling against the Taliban, Pak accuses India of LoC violations!

December 28, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Its ongoing battle against the Kabul-ruling Taliban and their Pakistan branch, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has already claimed dozens of lives on both sides of the borders. Now, amid reports that 15,000 Taliban fighters are marching towards Pakistan, Islamabad has accused India of “violating” the Line of Control (LoC) at […]

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Deportation: The US needs $86 billion to start deporting millions of illegal entrants!

December 26, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: President-elect Donald Trump’s border security man Tom Homan is set to seek a special USD 86 billion budget from the US Congress early next year to launch mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, as promised by the incoming 47th President of the US in his election campaign this year. Tom Homan, […]