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Roving Periscope: Muslim outfits fume as the US tightens screws on terrorists

December 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After Texas, Florida—US President Donald Trump’s home state—has also declared the Egypt-headquartered Muslim Brotherhood and the US-based ‘advocacy group’ called Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as “foreign terrorist organizations” with immediate effect. Days after an Afghan immigrant killed a security official and injured another in Washington, DC, Florida Governor Ron […]

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India: Democracy and Pakistan don’t go together, says MEA

December 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Commenting on former Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi’s incarceration in a jail for over two years, India on Tuesday said Pakistan and democracy don’t go together. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal delivered a strong observation on the political churn in Pakistan, asserting that “democracy and Pakistan […]

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Energy transition: Adani Group to invest $75 bn in five years, says Gautam Adani

December 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani on Tuesday said the conglomerate will invest over USD 75 billion in the energy transition space over the next five years, asserting that India must do what is best for itself, define its own development path, and resist external pressures, the media reported. Speaking at […]

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Agriculture: The US may impose tariffs on rice imports from India

December 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Failing to push in America’s farm and dairy products into India, US President Donald Trump may now impose a tariff on rice imports from the South Asian country. He said that India should not be “dumping” rice into the United States market and he will “take care” of it, while […]

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Pak ‘offer’ to Britain: ‘Will accept sex scandal convicts if you hand over anti-Munir activists!’

December 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In a quid pro quo move, Pakistan has reportedly proposed to the UK to accept the return of convicted members of Pakistani ‘grooming gangs’ in exchange for Britain extraditing two high-profile anti-Asim Munir dissidents: former PM Imran Khan’s aide Shahzad Akbar, and a Pakistani army whistleblower, Major Adil Raja. Islamabad […]

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Ukraine: Zelenskyy hasn’t “yet read” the peace plan, regrets Trump!

December 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Criticizing Volodymyr Zelenskyy, US President Donald Trump on Sunday lamented that his Ukrainian counterpart hasn’t even read the proposed peace plan to end Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia since February 2022. He also claimed that Zelenskyy “isn’t ready” to sign off on a US-authored peace proposal aimed at ending the […]

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Roving Periscope: Resumed Thai-Cambodia clashes challenge Trump’s peace claims

December 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Hardly has any of US President Donald Trump’s half-a-dozen peace-broking claims survived. The latest to prove him wrong came when Thailand launched fresh air strikes on Monday on its neighbour, Cambodia, with both sides trading blame for renewed fighting on their disputed border that has killed four Cambodian civilians and […]

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Banquet: Congress laments, Tharoor enjoys Putin event at Rashtrapati Bhavan

December 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after President Draupadi Murmu hosted a state banquet to honour visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin, Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor, who attended, said a “warm and engaging atmosphere” reigned at the event. Officially, the Congress on Friday lamented that the leaders of the opposition in parliament, Mallikarjun Kharge and […]

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BTA: India, US to hold three-day trade talks from December 10

December 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India and the United States will commence three-day talks on the first phase of their proposed bilateral trade agreement (BTA) in the Indian capital from December 10, the media reported on Saturday. “The talks will start on December 10, and conclude on December 12. It’s not a formal round of […]

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Roving Periscope: India-Russia partnership among “steadiest” in world, says Dr. Jaishankar

December 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s highly-successful India visit concluded, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on Saturday that the India-Russia partnership has been among the “steadiest big relationships” globally in the last 70-80 years, the media reported. The Russian leader’s visit to New Delhi was about “reimagining” the […]