Washington, April 1 (IANS) US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said he met President Donald Trump at the White House, adding the US leader “deeply cares about the relationship between the US and India!”, signalling continued focus on ties with New Delhi.Gor shared details of the meeting in a brief public message after returning to the United States for a short visit.“Back in the US for a few days. First stop, meeting with our GREAT President in the White House,” he said.The ambassador did …
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New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has weighed in on the ongoing West Asia crisis, offering a nuanced defence of India’s diplomatic restraint and pushing back against critics who have described the government’s silence on the US-Israeli war on Iran as a moral failure, instead terming New Delhi’s approach as “responsible statecraft”.In an opinion piece published in The Indian Express, Tharoor argued that while the conflict may violate international law, India’s fore…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) With its demographic scale, expanding industrial base and ambition to assert a stronger global role, India offers the European Union (EU) both economic opportunity and geopolitical relevance, a new report has said.The article in EU Reporter says that one of the clearest indicators of this shift is the acceleration of EU–India relations. According to it, the resumption of negotiations for a long-delayed free trade agreement, expanding cooperation on supply chains, digi…
New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) The India-European Union free trade agreement (FTA) reflects a shared assessment that “more is at stake than trade alone” and signalled openness on negotiated terms in an era of “weaponised interdependence”, a report has said.The report from Euronews said the deal goes far beyond tariffs when “great powers are increasingly weaponising tariffs and exploiting supply-chain dependencies”.The agreement reflects the logic that “middle powers must build resilience together with…
New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) Commending DRDO’s role in achieving self-reliance, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday that Operation Sindoor demonstrated that indigenous systems are strengthening India’s operational readiness.Addressing DRDO’s Best Performing Scientists and Technical Persons, who witnessed the 77th Republic Day Parade as Special Guests, Rajnath Singh stated that self-reliance has become a national mindset under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.He said th…
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) US President Donald Trump’s statement that the United States of America was now going to “run the country”, adding that American companies would rebuild Venezuela’s battered oil industry, continues to dominate news headlines with Washington’s media digging for details. And soon after the weekend Caracas raid, Trump indicated that Washington could further increase tariffs on Indian goods if it did not stop buying Russian oil.The US has already applied additional punitive d…