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Burqa: Switzerland to ban the Muslim women’s veil from January 2025

November 11, 2024 revoi editor

The move to ban the burqa started in September 2022, when Switzerland’s lower house of Parliament voted decisively, with 151 members in favor and 29 opposed, to pass the relevant legislation. This was followed by the 2021 referendum, where Swiss voters narrowly approved the ban, targeting not only religious face coverings like niqabs and burqas […]

Business

Japan: With a Trump shadow on him, PM Ishiba survives parliament vote

November 11, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday survived a parliamentary vote as lawmakers agreed for him to stay on as leader, even after his scandal-tarnished coalition lost its majority in a Lower House election last month. In recent months, French President Emmanual Macron and the then-British PM Rishi Sunak also […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Russia denies Trump-Putin talked about ending Ukraine war

November 11, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Russia on Monday denied as “completely false” an American media report that US President-elect Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin ‘talked’ last week about ending the ongoing Ukraine war, which started on February 24, 2022. The Washington Post reported on Sunday that Trump talked by phone with Putin […]

Defence

Pakistan: At least 25 die, 46 injured in Quetta railway station suicide blast

November 9, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: On the day Prime Minister Mohammed Shehbaz Sharif belatedly congratulated US President-elect Donald Trump on social media platform “X”, banned in Pakistan, at least 25 people were killed, and 46 others were injured, in a suicide blast at Quetta railway station, the media reported on Saturday. The Baloch Liberation Army […]

Defence

Canada: “Many Khalistan supporters,” Trudeau admits

November 9, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after US President-elect Donald Trump’s Man Friday Elon Musk predicted that Justine Trudeau is on his way out in next year’s parliamentary elections, the media reported on Saturday that the panicked Canadian Prime Minister finally acknowledged that his country has many Khalistani supporters but “they don’t represent the […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Trump will prioritize issues of borders, hostages, and wars.

November 9, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: US President-elect Donald Trump’s close Indian-American aide Kashyap Pramod Patel, better known as Kash Patel, has said the new administration’s priorities will include borders, terrorists, return of hostages, and ending wars. Patel, 44, who is tipped to get a high office in the next Trump administration—perhaps as the Director of […]

Business

Economy: India set to be a $35 trillion economy in 25 years, says Piyush Goyal

November 8, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India’s exciting growth story will make its current USD 3.5 trillion economy grow ten-fold to USD 35 trillion in the coming 25 years, according to Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal. Speaking at the inaugural session of Amazing Goa Global Business Summit 2024 on Friday, he said the 21st […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Delighted, Biden and Putin are on the same Trump page!

November 8, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For once, geopolitical rival Presidents Joe Biden of the US and Vladimir Putin of Russia found themselves on the same page—and for different reasons. In an irony of sorts, those who heard Joe Biden’s speech on Thursday felt that the outgoing US President looked happier at his Vice President Kamala […]

Business

Social media: Australia, others consider ban for under-16 kids; onus on tech firms

November 7, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Australia is set to legislate for a ban on social media for children under 16, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday, in what Canberra calls a world-leading package of measures that could become law late next year. Australia is trialing an age-verification system to assist in blocking children from […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Biden blamed for Harris’ loss, but she is defiant

November 7, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The outgoing US President Joe Biden’s alleged ‘under-performance’ during his four-year tenure (2021 to 2024) is now being blamed for the electoral loss of his Vice President Kamala Harris whom Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump trounced convincingly on Wednesday, the media reported on Thursday. Biden, fighting health-related issues […]