EAM didn’t name Pakistan, but noted India’s counter-terror ops, said UN system was in crisis & ‘better off’ nations have been lecturing while insulating themselves from energy issues.
Bera led a Congressional delegation to India this week. He tells ThePrint his Republican colleagues need to raise their voice on Trump’s policy decisions threatening to derail India-US ties.
In his UN General Assembly speech, the Pakistani PM said Islamabad is ready for a ‘composite, comprehensive & result-oriented’ dialogue with New Delhi.
In first comments on talks between two leaders, MEA says issues of trade & tariffs were raised by EAM Jaishankar during his meeting with American Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte Thursday suggested that Trump’s tariffs on India led to New Delhi pressuring the Russian President to explain his plan on Ukraine.
Strongly criticising use of tariffs & sanctions on countries keeping ties with Russia, the minister indicated that the end to conflict can only be achieved via diplomatic means.
The new tariffs, effective 1 October, are also aimed at kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities & heavy trucks. Any levies on generic drugs could be a blow to Indian pharma exports to the US.
Butkevych, ex-journalist & anti-militarist, joined Ukrainian armed forces in Feb 2022, was captured by Russia months later, convicted of ‘war crimes’ & finally released in late 2024.
Trump has repeatedly expressed desire to end the war, but has previously said it’d likely involve Ukraine giving up some territory. Kyiv has consistently rejected this suggestion.
Trump's decision to host a meeting with Muslim world leaders comes after the US-led Western unity over Israel has cracked following Tel Aviv's attacks on Doha earlier this month.
Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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