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Momentum high for India-EU FTA, have never seen such political will, says Lithuanian envoy

Ambassador Diana Mickevičienė discusses growing role of India in upholding international rules, Indo-Lithuania cultural ties and the future of India-EU FTA negotiations.

Australia Dy PM to attend World Cup final before 2+2 talks, calls India ‘top-tier security partner’

Richard Marles, with Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong, will meet EAM S. Jaishankar & Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi Monday for 2+2 talks.

Takeaways from Global South Summit: Avoiding debt traps, push for stronger voice in global governance

Around 130 countries attended virtual 'Voice of Global South Summit' Friday. People-centric development finance, inclusive and sustainable energy transition also among takeaways.

Appeal rejected, Indian nurse on death row in Yemen has 2 options: President’s pardon or ‘blood money’

Yemen SC rejected Nimisha Priya's appeal against death sentence in murder case. Her mother wants to negotiate blood money to ensure her release, but there's a ban on Indians traveling to Yemen.

‘This is an India that’s more Bharat,’ writes Jaishankar in op-ed about country’s growing global role

In a piece in The Economist, the external affairs minister also says 'double standards on terrorism can't be countenanced', references India's 'balancing act' on Russia-Ukraine war.

China-Japan commit to focusing on common interests, bilateral relations at APEC summit

Leaders from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum are in San Francisco for the 30th summit. This is the first time the leaders of China-Japan met face-to-face in a year.

Training sailors in Arctic waters, boosting Iran’s Chabahar – shipping minister details India’s maritime efforts

Speaking at the Indo Pacific Regional Dialogue, Sarbananda Sonowal says India also plans to expand inland water transportation to give a leg-up to regional partnerships.

MEA expresses concern over violence near India-Myanmar border, influx of refugees into Mizoram

MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi says local authorities in Mizoram ‘handling situation on humanitarian grounds, facilitating return of those who wish to return to Myanmar’.

India not ruling out probe into Nijjar killing but Canada yet to provide evidence, says Jaishankar

On trip to UK, external affairs minister said Canadian politics has 'given space to extreme political opinions which advocate separatism from India', rued treatment of Indian diplomats.

Resumption of bilateral military ties, Taiwan — what Biden & Xi discussed at crucial meeting in US

US president Joe Biden & his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held ‘most constructive discussions’ at summit amid backdrop of trade war & ties between the 2 nations reaching nadir in decades.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.