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Turkey: Ankara detains several journalists amid crackdown on the media

March 24, 2025 revoi editor

New Delhi: The Turkish authorities detained several Journalists amid the ongoing protest over the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor and top rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the media reported on Monday. On Sunday, a court formally ordered the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and jailed him for a pending trial on corruption charges. His […]

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Roving Periscope: Now, Trump plans to shut down US Department of Education!

March 20, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: US President Donald Trump, who has time and again derided the Department of Education as “wasteful” and “polluted by liberal ideology” plans to shut down the department, the media reported on Thursday. However, the dismantling of the US department is likely impossible without an act of US Congress, which created […]

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Rally at Ramlila Maidan reflects Opposition’s poverty of ideas

April 1, 2024 Vinayak Barot

(Guru Prakash) More than a rally of the Opposition, Sunday’s meeting at the Ramlila ground reminded the people of India of a weekend lunch get-together of the sons and daughters of the political elite at the Delhi Gymkhana Club. There is a growing realisation of the widespread poverty of intelligence in the unstructured speeches and […]

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Roving Periscope: In the ‘same boat’, Trump, Imran fight irrelevance, fears of arrest

March 22, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Call it a quirk of fate, former US President Donald Trump and ex-Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi find themselves in the ‘same boat’ as they battle the fears of arrest in their respective countries where their successors are tightening the noose to prevent them from contesting the next […]

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Economy: India may displace the UK as the third largest by 2029, says SBI report

September 3, 2022 virendra pandit

New Delhi: India may emerge as the third largest economy by 2029 — up seven places since 2014 when it was ranked 10th, according to a State Bank of India report on Saturday. They currently rank India as the fifth largest economy. “The path taken by India since 2014 reveals the country is likely to […]

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Roving Periscope: Lanka talks for $ 1 bn swaps with India; ‘Not sending troops’, says New Delhi

July 11, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As Sri Lanka’s fugitive President Gotabaya Rajapaksa offered to quit on Wednesday, and embattled Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe announced resignation once a new government is formed, the Cabinet ministers also said they would go after an all-party government is formed. The media reported on Monday the island nation’s central bank […]

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Sri Lanka: Emergency lifted as situation improves slightly

May 21, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the law and order situation improving slightly in bankruptcy-hit Sri Lanka, the government announced the lifting of the state of national emergency on Saturday, the media reported. The move came nearly two weeks after it imposed the emergency for a second time within a month across the island nation […]

Roving Periscope: Now, CPEC is a ‘white elephant’ for both China and Pakistan!

May 9, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Once touted as Pakistan’s Khul Ja Simsim (Open Sesame) kind of golden future, the USD 60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) may have turned into a white elephant for both the ‘all-weather-friends’. While Beijing has adopted a go-slow policy. Islamabad is worried that the ultra-ambitious project might threaten the country’s […]

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Roving Periscope: Heading a “war cabinet”, Sharif admits Pakistan “drowning” in debt!

April 21, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In politics, it is relatively easier to dislodge your rival from power but very difficult to sort out the problems that led to the ouster. Pakistan is learning it the harder way. If there was any doubt about its grim economic situation, the new Prime Minister, Shahbaz Sharif, has removed […]

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Gift of the Nile? Egypt to import wheat from India

April 15, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The world’s oldest civilization, Egypt, had earned the sobriquet of being the “Gift of the Nile” as the great river had converted it into a fertile bowl of food grain for the ancient world. Now, Egypt will import wheat from India, with whose predecessor, the Indus Valley Civilization, it had […]