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Khalistan: American-Canadian “asset” Pannun threatens Air India travelers again

October 21, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: America’s Khalistani “asset” against India, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, has repeated his last year’s threat, warning passengers not to fly Air India next month. “Don’t fly Air India from November 1 to 19,” he warned of attacks on the airliner, citing the 40th anniversary of the anti-Sikh riots in the country […]

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China: Cautious Beijing parries query about Modi-Xi talks during BRICS Summit

October 21, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: China’s Foreign Ministry on Monday parried questions on a possible meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the two-day BRICS Summit beginning in Russia on Tuesday. “We will keep you posted if anything comes up,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said while […]

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Canada: “No role in Nijjar murder case,” says recalled Indian envoy SK Verma

October 21, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While Canada has named him as a ‘person of interest,’ recalled Indian High Commissioner to Ottawa Sanjay Kumar Verma has strongly denied his involvement in the murder of a Khalistani Sikh leader in British Columbia in 2023. Verma, and five other diplomats whom New Delhi recalled last week—although Ottawa claimed […]

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Roving Periscope: ‘Breakthrough’ in Sino-Indian LAC disengagement

October 21, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A month after External Affairs Minister S, Jaishankar hinted that 75 percent of disengagement problems have been sorted out, and ahead of the upcoming BRICS Summit at Kazan, Russia (October 22-24), India and China have achieved a ‘breakthrough’ in their ongoing standoff, envisaging an LAC patrolling pact “leading to disengagement.” […]

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Roving Periscope: Infested with terrorists, Canada turning into Pakistan-II

October 19, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Canada, like Pakistan, may have turned into a proxy of the USA, becoming America’s toolkit for geopolitical manipulations, harboring ‘non-state actors’ against unfavorable elected governments, and attempting a regime change. With the tacit support of Washington and London, Ottawa’s recent brinkmanship against New Delhi is an example of how nations […]

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Economy: WB President Ajay Banga lauds India’s growth

October 18, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Applauding India’s current growth rate as the ‘shiniest’ part of the global economy, World Bank President Ajay Banga has said a lot of this growth is driven by the vast domestic market. “I think being able to grow at six, seven percent and more in this kind of environment shows you […]

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The Gaza War: “The Group can’t be eliminated,” says Hamas after Israel kills Sinwar

October 18, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: “Hamas is a liberation movement led by people looking for freedom and dignity, and this cannot be eliminated,” said Basem Naim, a senior member of Hamas’s political bureau, but stopped short of confirming death after Israel said it had killed the terror outfit’s chief Yahya Sinwar, the media reported on Friday. […]

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Roving Periscope: After using Canada as a proxy against India, the US tries to frame an ex-Indian official in the Pannun case

October 18, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: On May 2, 2011, the US Navy SEALs shot and killed Osama bin Laden, who founded the Islamist terror group al-Qaeda, at his compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. The US charged Osama, born in Saudi Arabia and studied in the United States and the United Kingdom, with masterminding the […]

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Canada: India tightens screws, singles out Trudeau for damaging bilateral ties

October 17, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the buffeted Justine Trudeau, ahead of the next year’s parliamentary elections, acknowledging that he had no hard evidentiary proof when he alleged the involvement of the Indian government’s “agents” in the Hardeep Singh Nijjar killing, New Delhi has hardened its stance against Ottawa and singled out the current Prime […]

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Roving Periscope: Dhaka apes Islamabad; making Hasina Imran-II

October 17, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: That Bangladesh is racing to morph back into what it was until 1971—East Pakistan—was little in doubt when the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed’s democratically-elected government was toppled in August 2024, 16 months after her counterpart in Islamabad, Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, was overthrown—both allegedly as America’s behest. Now, […]